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I am slightly reminded of the dangerous but cleansing cough that occurs after accidentally inhaling something that should have never been in your lungs in the first place. — politics? or?

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Each person’s natural orientation in purpose and relation is unique. And it changes dramatically under observation, priming… and, very profoundly in contexts where a group has formed. Along with whatever might otherwise come naturally to us, it is as if we...

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The average tree of reasonable age has learned a thousand dialects of »silence. It ‘listens’ to »silences and »learns how to make and understand them. The silence of the Sun. The Moon. Stars. The silences of a hundred different birds. The silences of its...

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“Speaking tactically, no one other than Trump was bold enough to pursue the ‘resentment dollar’, or ‘the scapegoat dollar’, or even the ‘hate dollar’ — in terms of marketing (conversion). There’s a vast pool of...

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There are two motivations that underlie my desire to speak at all. Both are often misguided, but I trust the latter more. The first is something that concerns me, because (it seems, to me) there is a tragedy or grave injustice involved. The second is staggering...