[The Iguana]

...highway that will still lead us all, inexorably, irreversibly, though often agonizingly, toward grinning open-thighed progress.

There's something else generally found at the end of that highway, inexorable or not:

Wasting death by age 50 from sexually transmitted disease or a related ailment. And, on a larger scale, demographic collapse.

"Beckoning," indeed.

[cloud8]

Hey Morford,
...Got Aids Yet?