Reply #44: Good question: when does a rational person reach "cognitive dissonance" living in an irrational...

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society?

At what point does mass lunacy become irrefutable by words - so that you just have to stand back and let it commit suicide?

I don't know, but I do know that Florida is definitely past that point! How can you stand the corruption, the fundamentalism, the constant flood of retirees and tourists, the suicidal development of the Everglades, the hurricanes, the rabid Batista Cubans? I would sooner live in Montana than Florida.

Interesting to hear that you went from Philosophy to Advertising.

"i think that philosophy departments would do well to teach pomo/decon as modern-day sophistry, as there's plenty of parallel there." SPOT ON.

Good luck. Maybe you can get a house cheap on foreclosure down there. I hear FL has one of the highest foreclosure rates in the country.

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