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that's fascinating ustwo.
more anecdotes. how nice.
the world must be exactly that way.
your anecdotes give you access to all of reality--the consequences of structural adjustment programs in the southern hemisphere, the consequences of the american war economy, the consequences of the radically uneven distribution of educational resources across the board in the united states, the consequences of all aspects of the current economic rationality in all sphere of social being--clearly all facets of the american system of socio-economic class stratification and reproduction are all jammed in to your anecdotes. clearly those people are EveryPerson, and your anecdotes Edifying Tales that all of us should contemplate and learn from.
from your olympian vantagepoint, armed with Telling Anecdotes and Important Analytic Major Premises on the order of "i dont like taxes" and Vastly Informed Minor Premises like "it does not matter what socialism actually is i hate it anyway", no phenomenon on earth---no matter how small---can escape you. ever.
and from such olympian heights, what good are mere books, what value has mere information, mere data, when you commune with the Nature of Things Immanently--why you do not need to even expend the energy to open your eyes----without even opening your eyes, you can peer directly into the bodies of human beings and see that genetics determines the outcomes of behaviors, you can look around and see that any social hierarchy that enables you to imagine yourself atop it must necessarily be without ANY problems because, hey, you're atop it and that is as it should be and so all is necessarily right with the world. through you Science and Reason obviously speak.
but it must be a mixed blessing to have such awesome powers that you know so much about the world without bothering to acquire any actual information about it.
but i for one am every bit as grateful as you imagine me to be that you take time out from your vastly burdened internal world to interact with mere mortals like myself who have to struggle through the odious process of assembling an understanding of the world by way of information, who are not graced with the Powerful Insight that you are that makes Understanding of the World something that requires no information.
and you have demonstrated the validity of your position with such persuasive power, and the extraneousness of information to your arguments at the same time, that i simply bow in your general direction.
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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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