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View a cross-section of American culture. This is the foundation of post-modern American culture: pre-modern American culture. We were naive then, we are naive now. What we're naive about is subject to change, but we always find something.
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*goes* *regrets* *bangs head against wall* WHY? WHY, WHY?!?
------------------ If Galileo had lied to save his life, would America, or the West, or Space have been discovered? And if Columbus had never set sail, would the Earth still be flat?
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For about 99.9% of all human history (and I'm going back to before hunter-gatherer days)there was no such thing as "free time."
In human experience, this is a relatively recent concept.
It might take us a couple more centuries to get it right, or at least to the point where the following generations aren't ashamed of what their parents called everyday culture.
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