b'Fast, Cheap, and Good pick 2. If its fast and cheap, it wont be good. If its cheap and good, it wont be fast. If its fast and good, it wont be cheap. Fast, cheap, and goodpick any 2. Words to live by.- Jim Jarmusch through Tom WaitsFast and CheapWhat a Way to Go.Pushing hard, always towards the West.A driving people now, but back then theyd beenfrom India, like some place dreamed up called West rode hard and put up wet by royalty, priests, and landIndies. To this day, people still struggle to call it like barons who had kept them down for centuries. Now,it is . . . If this new world place is indeed named looking at the tail end of the Middle Ages, they wereAmerica, then surely people who were already here sick and tired. Tired of working their fingers to thefrom the beginning . . . must be Americans. bone but still living in poverty within the confinesNative Americans. of someone elses kingdom. Sick of being told the reward for their labor, the end of their suffering,From the outset, immigrant refugee asylum seekers would come only in some heavenly afterlifefrom the old world couldnt have made it without promised by the priests. No choice but to break andthat bit of initial friendship, helping hands, and open run . . . like refugees on a rampage. heart of the Americans. Remembrances and visions of how all this could have turned out . . . helps keep In mass, they struck out across a vast ocean witha glimmer of light shining for some of us. I hold high hopes of making a better world. Determined toclose a sense of gratitude that must have been felt free themselves from an impoverished past of forcedwhen offerings of sustenance and shelter were freely slavery and servitude, the people we now know asgiven, bringing strength and healing to sick and our ancestors set out with fierce tenacity to stakeweary strangers. out independent claims in a new world. Westward bound to an unbelievably pristine and unknownIntricate stories are woven how the new arrivals new land.looked in absolute awe at the nature of this new land. Stories of abundance and wealth. Boundless Along this epic journey, the first refugees werewildlife, infinite forests, and prairies. Clean, free-surprised to find their chosen land was alreadyflowing waters and the sweet smell of the freshest air inhabited. After long boat rides, these people were soon Earth. But in an instant, fast and cheap took over. disoriented in their view of Earth, they thought theThe history these new arrivals carried with them was existing inhabitants they encountered were originallyheavy and dark, almost written into their DNA.'