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You forgot the Africans.
I'm pretty sure that there were fewer problems before there were liberals and communists because of all of those entrenched monarchies.
Those damn liberals...wanting their damn freedoms....
Well if we get our Orwellian reality in a post-9/11 world, in a way it's like a return to a kind of monarchical system where people are ruled not by consent, but by some supernatural force. You know, like spectral enemies and corrupt ideals like Truth and Justice.
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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
Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 09-16-2010 at 01:47 PM..
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