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Old 10-15-2016, 12:38 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Excellent Article That Explains It All.
How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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Old 10-15-2016, 01:02 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Old 10-15-2016, 01:35 PM   #4 (permalink)
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I'm surprised you liked it. It actually promotes some kind of compassion and understanding towards people you disagree with.
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I saw that earlier today. I think he makes some good points, but it's undermined by his generally crappy presentation. He's a much better novelist than political commentator.
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Old 10-15-2016, 06:02 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Hillary Clinton.
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Hillary Clinton.
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The theme expresses itself in several ways -- primitive vs. advanced, tough vs. delicate, masculine vs. feminine, poor vs. rich, pure vs. decadent, traditional vs. weird. All of it is code for rural vs. urban.
Within the city there are rich and poor. So how is poor:rich::rural:urban even an accurate analogy? The same holds true with rural areas.
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Within the city there are rich and poor. So how is poor:rich::rural:urban even an accurate analogy? The same holds true with rural areas.
Yeah, that was one of the things that was kind of dumb about it.
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Cause much of the conflict throughout American history has been rural v. urban. It was the driving force behind Prohibition. If you don't recognize the conflict between urban and rural America then you're just ignorant.
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