DEAR EDITOR:

What lies beyond the Dead Zone? The party of Democrats and Republicans may play a mean tune, so close, yet so far away. A sad thing about our society today, many can recite the Constitution forward as well as backward, and that is as close as it gets. We have a governing body that takes the extra step to counter their fellow law makers.

Putting it in perspective, in a 1972 movie “Deliverance,” the song was “Dueling Banjos,” a mountain boy named Lonnie and a New Yorker on a river excursion, matching note for note with each other on their banjos until the song ended, then Lonnie reverted back to his roots.

What may we take from this? A 1972 landmark study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology stated that we would have a civilization collapse by the year 2040.

PAUL R. LAWSON

McDonald