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daredtowork

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8. No one ever acknowledges slipping backwards, either.

Reply to MuseRider (Reply #5)

Fri May 1, 2015, 02:28 PM

May 2015

Such is the power of the Myth of Progress, despite the continued cuts to the social programs and gutting of everything we had going to "build civilization" in this country since the 1980s. The Culture Wars was one long game of the White Man saying: "If I can't have all the public resources, then no one can have anything."

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"Cry Freedom" end credits. [View all] malthaussen May 2015 OP

Stunning isn't it? MuseRider May 2015 #1

One of the things I find fascinating about it... malthaussen May 2015 #2

Dehumanizing MuseRider May 2015 #3

Unfortunately, I think many in the US malthaussen May 2015 #4

I agree MuseRider May 2015 #5

I like to say "Anything that happened before you were born is history." malthaussen May 2015 #6

No one ever acknowledges slipping backwards, either. daredtowork May 2015 #8

We need an American version of a Cry Freedom movie avebury May 2015 #7