roachboy, problems of under- and unemployment are usually a greater concern on the left. So in the U.S., you have this kind of apathy for unemployment issues outside of it as an economic indicator. It's a different situation in Canada, you know, where you actually have left politics.
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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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