A fed up angry rant about our ongoing obsession with beauty and with re-defining beauty. I'm done. Let's go for ugly.
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What turns you on? How do you know? Is that really your flavour or is your sexuality rented out to cultural conditioning?
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With another Halloween approaching, it's a safe bet we'll see yet another cultural outbreak of the Halloween Whore.Â
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What does the movie Fubar and Girls Gone Wild raunch culture have to do with the evolving cosmos? As it turns out, a lot.
Notes on the age of diversion and the growing thaw.
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Cultural issues are important, but they're not as important as what's happening in the economy.
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Is America like the Roman Empire? In what ways?
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A simple vision for our responsibilities to ourselves and to others, caring for a world in which much is needed.
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