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My generation's stuck in the mirrorR.C.
"Forget about the poor, 'cause I don't like the word"
I need to know the name of my neighbor
I am not known if I'm not seen or heard
And I am afraid of that which I do not know
So why don't I just ask your fucking name
Justice just gets buried in a white light
I heard there was a time you'd call it shame
Speaking of, have you heard this? [Link] Mumford & Sons: "The Blind Leading the Blind".Not before. Seems to me they are "too intellectual" for the average consumer. Most slots in the media (radio/TV) seem occupied by the Britney-Spears/Backstreet-Boys lookalikes / actalikes. Sorry for bringing up that corpses, but that was the time I stopped listening to pop music ...
(After all, I suffered through at least 3 whole minutes of your and HFL's 'electronica'.)You did at your own risk ...
Watch those; report back.Sure. Scheduled for the afternoon (local time, a few hours to noon here).
OMG! Now you owe me, dude!The Trash Metal equivalent in the techno scene. Sometimes called "gabber" or "Rotterdam hardcore".
"God of Abraham" ...save me! Jesus H. Fucking Christ! SAVE ME!!!
Sapir-Whorf hypothesisAlso thought it a bit funny that there are actual humans named "Whorf." But I've possibly watched too much Star Trek.
a hypothesis, first advanced by Edward Sapir in 1929 and subsequently developed by Benjamin Whorf, that the structure of a language determines a native speaker's perception and categorization of experience.
fake people=amerikans
hofstede ranks US the most individualistic society on earth, followed closely by Australians NZ, Canada, then UK...while his other comparisons are erroneous this is accurate
"only in amerika do people act like machines, r treated like machines and only in US r machine metaphors used to describe human behavior". G Gorer
the Parsonian Philip Slater: "amerikans poorly understand that individualism produces uniformity"
"what unites the slavophiles, Alexandr Herzen, Peter Kropotkin and the Marxists is that western individualism is an enemy of individuality". Vladimir Golstein
"individuality has entirely decayed in amerika". Horkheimer/Adorno they described amerikan conversations as the same: "shallow, bombastic, fatuous"
the liberal David Riesman observed amerikans were afflicted w a "shallow national character" and described them as "over conformist semi-automatons"
Arthur Kosester fluent in German, English French--lived in USSR spoke Russian, a virulent anti-communist, compared amerikans to 5th century Romans: "a similarly contactless society populated by automatons...a similarly soulless political y corrupt everybody for themselves society"
George Simmel examined more than 1000 societies and found that only in primitive individualist tribes where individuality was absent were genders homogenized and fashion brought closer to the body.....in the USA masculines Females (Hochschild, etc) feminized males---Gorer, wrote only in the USA is the father vestigial---the amerikan minded conscience is feminine"---the most feminized males on the planet...."the amerikan ideal is that everybody should be the same". James Baldwin. in civilized collectivist nations colored hair is absent...when Riesman described amerikans as semi automatons, the only people that had tattoos ere some lower ranks in the US Navy, biker gangs, criminals....in collectivist societies---criminals, a few members of the military, vulgarian rock stars...
USA=the only peer group society on earth---in all other nations I have lived, now live different age groups and people that disagree socialize...in USA is is insecure herds of the same age.... if an amerikan is alone she will be copulatiing w a mobile phone
puritans do not think or feel