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Pete Kagan's avatar

I wish you didnโ€™t hold yourself back, and told us what you REALLY think.

That IS a fucking masterpiece, again your word imagery is absolutely fucking amazing.

I write from the relative safety of Australia, but what I am seeing in America is unfathomable. I remember watching on TV the assassination of JFK. I felt as if the air had been sucked out of the room. That the world had been turned upside down. A few years later we were learning about slavery in America, the Civil War, and the end of slavery. But I had a much older brother who used to get LIFE magazine full of photojournalism. And that was telling a different story. Photos of race riots, young black men getting their heads kicked in. The reality of America didnโ€™t match its rhetoric. America was far from perfect, but then is any nation?

America did not always live up to its promise, but when it did, it was amazing. There was a reason the Statue of Liberty was gifted to America, and those words written on its plinth once meant something.

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Sandra Greer's avatar

Do you remember high school? Most of the students bought into the supremacy of sports, screaming their approval of cheerleaders and athletes, even though on the average the cheerleaders and athletes were as mean as a junkyard dog. Some of them were Young Nazis. If you didn't go along with this and the rest of their worship (designer sneakers and jeans, etc), you were so far out you could see the Canadian border.

There is no cure for stupidity. The cure is (maybe) the philosopher's stone, which has been sought for centuries.

All these high schoolers have grown up and are now stupid adults.

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