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After contemplating this for a while, it seems to me that America isn't ready for the new millennium. Is this progressing into a new kind of isolationism? Is globalization to America what the barbarians were to Rome?
Nationalism is dead. America is looking a little old-fashioned these days. It's amazing what is up for debate there... many of which would be scandalous in places like Canada.
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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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