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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
There are no social ills. These "ills" are not new. We're just now beginning to be a more honest society because we bring them to the surface and technology lets us hear about them more easily. The whole notion that we're somehow like Old Rome is ridiculous nonsense. People had all the perversions they do today 5000 years ago. These people who write to ABC want to turn back the clock to a time which never existed. They're arguing that we should be like Ostriches rather than be honest about reality. I don't know how you defend a positon that flawed. But I guess it explains a lot about why they're so shrill and flailing in thei condemnations - it must be a hell of thing to have to argue the absurd all the time on the national stage.
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While it's always been harder to keep 'em down on the farm after they've seen Paris, it's a lot easier to see Paris from the farm now. Also, technology has changed the farm a lot. For example, lots of blacks left the rural South for the urban North in this century -- dislocation produced by economic progress. This changes are threatening, and profound. How better to deal with it than by electing someone who promises to turn back the clock?
