Well, Zim ... ALEA is a bubble of symbiosis wherein clo and Cactus Flower can cluelessly smell each other's farts and pontificate on how aromatic they are. It's a great little idyllic world of delusion for them ... as long as they do not allow reality to intrude, that is ... which is why many of us are banned from posting there.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence