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Originally Posted by Charlatan
No other nation exports it's culture on the same scale and with such a wide reach.
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It's not what's exported that worries me, it's what's consumed at home.
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Originally Posted by Charlatan
Is it any wonder "they" hate America? They've had to watch far too much garbage...
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Do you mean "garbage" as in American Idol-CSI-Jessica Simpson-type garbage, or the more toxic kind that carries messages of perceived American superiority? What specifically did you have in mind that would generate such hatred? Does it involve and/or inspire chest-beating, perhaps?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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