Nothing would more quickly poison this movement at its wellspring than Western colonialism in new form (that's how Qaddafi will portray it, and he will have an audience).
But the Valley, in fact, has a fairly rich history, and Hewlett-Packard is its wellspring -- a legacy of "Bill and Dave" and a corporate culture of doing everything possible to hold onto its work force regardless of swings in the business cycle.
Extremist Muslim fanaticism, which has its wellspring in the totalitarian ideologies that seeped into the Middle East during the 1930s and which has taken numerous lives and will take many more, doesn't pose the existential threat to civilization that communism and Nazism once did.
Its wellsprings were deep in Kennedy's own experience, after the murder of his brother, John Kennedy, in 1963; the grief he had carried in the years since; all that he had come to understand about the roots of black unrest, the depths of black frustration with the political process, and the growing focus of black communities on self-determination.
Darger was queer; a piece of that amazing river of consciousness we are finally starting to navigate openly that has been hidden for so long and which finds so many of its wellsprings in childhood itself.
What a Carve Up! took one such film as its artistic wellspring; here, though, that honour might be said to be split between an imaginary film, The Crystal Garden, and a real one, Death Line (1974), briefly mentioned in the book.
And to bring the whole web back to its center, Wellspring gave $75,000 to the Federalist Society, an organization of conservatives and libertarians who "place a premium on individual liberty, traditional values and the rule of law".
But every epoch has its hidden, irrepressible wellsprings of sentimentality, and it appears that Jeffers (along with a number of splendid 20th-century poets, like Berryman and Larkin) endorsed the covertly romantic notion that if your pronouncements are only dire enough, you must be viewing the world dead on.
Wellspring, like its real-life counterpart, allows families to own its houses only as long as they are associated with the university, which continues to hold the rights to the land on which those houses stand.
But as much damage as this decade did to our planet, it may still one day be seen as the wellspring of its salvation.
The great cities of the world facilitate human interaction, creating that indefinable buzz and soul of the city, the wellspring of its innovation and excitement that is a major contributor to its resilience and success economically and socially.
