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villager

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26. I increasingly try to imagine a scenario where America remains an "intact" country past-mid century
Sun Jul 19, 2015, 06:54 PM
Jul 2015

...given the climate (and therefore economic) upheavals that are coming.

i just can't.

Merton had it right about the psychoses, writ large, of great countries and empires.

The Rudderless Voyage [View all] H2O Man Jul 2015 OP
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I increasingly try to imagine a scenario where America remains an "intact" country past-mid century villager Jul 2015 #26
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