well it's like really interesting because it's right now a viable argument that being anything other than conservative is elitist, like you're better than everyone else. it's the same thing as 'what do you mean you don't like NASCAR? you'd rather go sailing?' but it's not at all; the genius of this conflation is that it's totally false. because it was once that liberals were the salt of the earth union workers, who tended to vote democrat and who proved beyond any doubt that liberals were not elitists. so probably a lot of this has to do with the decline of unions. I don't really know. I have no idea how we got where we are.
I think that most people think of violence very literally, like punching or shooting or something like that. But really we need to look at the urge to violence and how that is manifested. I think violence is the urge to bring all the rest of the world under your control, to have dominion over that which is not yours. and I think that we are all deeply violent and that that is in our nature and that the best people help others to resist this urge. I don't know. I've been thinking a lot about violence since I finished Blood Meridian over spring break, which is really one of the best books ever very easily and by far the most concerned with violence of any book I've ever read.
taxes need to go up. the military needs to be cut. entitlement programs need to be scaled back. this is nothing new, and it is nothing that is going to happen.
I mean that's fine. i had like a 3.6 GPA weighted in high school, which I think probably held me back a little bit in terms of colleges but you have a long time to worry about all of that. I would say just don't even give it any thought yet.
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