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Originally Posted by Gilda
I'm not being negative. I just have a realistic assessment of my physical attractiveness...
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Modesty is healthy.
Ustwo, do we get a follow-up? I think we all acknowledge jewels as a material obsession and marketing as manipulative, so are you just taking in too much television these holidays?
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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