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RAB910

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June 1, 2020

This scene from Across the Universe struck me how dark the late 60s were

People dying in Vietnam and due to civil unrest. I couldn't imagine how dark a time our nation had endorsed (I was a young child so I didn't appreciate what was happening). Never did I think that we would live times equally as dark if not darker. I guess this is what happens when your president rose to power on the principles of hatred, fear, and anger.


May 30, 2020

Truer words have not been written

America has marched drunkenly into the gutter of what could be termed cultural democracy — a pathological condition in which all opinions are equal, and to argue otherwise invites accusations of snobbery, pretentiousness and down-the-nose contempt for the "forgotten man."...


The true villain in a cultural democracy is the intellectual. The intellectual insists on standards of evidence, reason and logic when attempting to reach a conclusion regarding a matter of social import. She undermines the dogma that all nonsense is created equal, which renders her (or indeed him) unfit for participation in the increasingly masochistic rituals of liberty.


https://www.salon.com/2020/05/30/anti-intellectualism-is-back--because-it-never-went-away-and-its-killing-americans/
May 27, 2020

Unfair!

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