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i dont understand why folk are getting pissy here.
somewhere in "democracy in america" tocqueville complains that americans are unreasonably vain about where they live, that you have to flatter them, and that in their love of flattery, americans are as bad as the worst courtier. it seems that tocqueville hit upon something that still holds true.
i am not saying that the op was made by a rocket scientist.
nor that his other post was.
just remarking on the snippiness is see emerging.
what would you prefer, that the opening had said "i know america is great in every way but is it really like that...what is it like to live in nirvana"?
the other level at which the assumption of a mount atop a high high horse seems to have happened without the slightest justification is in the often idiotic characterizations of europe that followed an admittedly idiotic characterization of the us.
it appears from this that once someone offends the almost limitless vanity of americans they get so pissy that they forget how to conduct themselves. which speaks more to the norma desmond thing than anything i could possibly have written myself.
fistf: this post crossed with yours--i wasnt referring to it in the above
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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