(World's largest white pine mill du jour, Lewiston, Idaho) .. wherein was also a paper mill ... I can attest to the foulest of {sweetish} odoriferousness imaginable, at certain parts of the paper process.
The locals just got used-to aka inured to the awfulness. (But not moi.)

But then we got COMPUTERS. Recall the ""paperless-Orifice"" soon to descend upon uncivilization, along with the flying car?
Drumpf didn't invent the Lo-information voter, he merely orchestrated many of the themes of Boobus Americansis so artfully dissected in the magnificent The Disappearance: of the master curmudgeon, *Philip Wylie.
("Momism" was another of his coinages..) while Disappearance is as prescient as: predicting The Drumpf, right on down to the preoccupation with [someone-is-wrong-on-the-Intarweb.] Well before DARPA birthed it.


* I was fortunate to encounter that summer a literate guy who brought Wylie into my callow consciousness, his acerbic wit arming me for those coming forays against inculcation (of er, Murican Valuez. :-)


Carrion.