Picto Diary - 05 July 2020 - A Tale of Two Cities

Above: Rose bush. Park City Public Services Building. 05 July 2020.

Escaping the Insanity Program
Deux Magots Walkers

Wasatch Bagel, City Park, Shorty's Stairs, Main Street, PCMR, Silver Star, Golf Course. Five miles. 500 vertical feet.

Above: Old town homes. Park City, UT. 05 July 2020

Escaping the Insanity Program
Deux Magots Walkers

Above: Shorty's Stairs. Park City, UT. 05 July 2020.

Escaping the Insanity Program.
Deux Magots Walkers

Huff Puff.

Above: Black Lives Matters Poster. Main Street. Park City, UT. 05 July 2020.

Above: Midway Utah. 04 July 2020.

Tale of Two Cities

Fourth of July. A tale of two Utah cities. A tale of two Americas.

Midway and Park City are similarly sized Utah cities, located in "the Wasatch Back," about twenty miles away, one from the other.

Each city's 2020 Fourth of July imagery was radically different from the the other.

Midway celebrated the fourth in typically patriotic fashion. It produced a spectacular fireworks display at the end of the day. The display, visible from all around the Heber/Midway valley was supplemented with a myriad of home launched fireworks all visible - and audible - from our vista point near Memorial Hill. Lee Greenwood could be heard singing his anthem in the background.

Park City offered no parade or fireworks this year. Rather, the city closed main street to traffic and sanctioned giant posters, billed as "art," to be painted on the Main Street Road surface. The mural theme was claimed to be "Diversity." The most prominent of the murals was one for Black Lives Matter.

One city, Midway, celebrates the fourth in traditional patriotic fashion , where America's greatness is extolled. The other city, Park City, puts forward a different interpretation of America... a "woke" interpretation, which calls America into account for putative past sins leading to a view of America as a flawed and illegitimate nation.

That these two radically different interpretations of America on her two hundred thirty fourth birthday are themed by cities only twenty miles away from one another is one thing. The ability of America to accommodate these two different interpretations and still thrive is quite another.

I've long said, the time is past where any American can sit on the fence and cry "can't we all just get along?" Its time to take sides. One side has to win, the other side has to lose. Who will be the winner? Midway or Park City? Those still on the sidelines thinking themselves on the moral high ground by not taking sides, will be rejected by the winner, whichever side wins.

Above: Last of the Snow at PCMR. Park City, UT. 05 July 2020.

Escaping the Insanity Program
Deux Magots Walkers.

Above: TIMDT 'n Bishop. Trio. Salt Lake City, 05 July 2020.

Escaping the Insanity Program
Out and about in the F350 (see it there?).

Veggie hash for brunch.

Above: Echo, UT. 05 July 2020

Escaping the Insanity Program
Out and about in the F350
Extreme Social Distance Enforcement Training.