State Farm is what passes for a neighbor now. Instead of trusting people in their integrity, our habit, our law, has become to instead focus on financial agreements and being legally bound with strangers. I've long wondered why in Southern California neighbor is synonymous with stranger. I think I've found my answer. In the suburbs, these wealthy elite are so bound up in their finances that rarely do they feel the need to say hi to the people they live near. Doing so can in fact open up new avenues for.. risk. Being out of touch with the rest of the world, and with the vast majority of those merely trying to imitate the things rich people do, in cheaper ways, this cultural distancing is permeating the world in overt and subtle ways. As one who is about to experience America's criminal justice system I'm a bit worried about the fact that most of the language centers around debt. This, coming from the mixed metaphor of Reformation theology, is a concoction I'm fa...