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Go to /pol/ will ya?

>>7782315
But I wrote "understand"

Don't fall victim to the nationalistic barriers that politics tries to impose upon the human species. We are all just energy undergoing a state of transition (a byproduct of the universe).

if you want to understand anti-intellectualism in American life, however, read Hofstadter.

>>7782325

>Assume everyone who disagrees with you, or doesn't share your views, is an idiot
>OH MY GOD, WHY ARE ALL THESE IDIOTS VOTING FOR A GUY LIKE TRUMP EN MASSE?! IT COULDN'T POSSIBLY BE A PROTEST VOTE!

>>7782302
By being Canada.

get it

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>>7782302
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville.

>>7782302
You can't. The nation is a constantly changing beast, always at front of modernity and intelligence, always doing something new and exciting and entertaining. The world follows in her wake, and for her critics, the massive waves that drift away from the hull are more important that the boat which charges forward. Listen to me now: ignore the waves. Look to the engineers, the design, the crew, and the captains. Look to the builders and pilots and boatswains. But ignore the waves. They are ephemeral. Do you understand? It is okay if you don't. Few Americans do, and virtually no Europeans are capable of grasping this concept. But it is essential to the American identity and behavior, and thus it is essential to the direction of the planet.

Read Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Twain, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hemingway, Kerouac, Rand, Bob Dylan, Roth, and DeLillo.

Maybe watch the films of John Ford, Robert Altman, and Martin Scorcese as well.

>>7782350
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>>7782302
Art of the Deal.

>>7782331
>object to the shitty current state of affairs
>protest by electing a shittier replacement

I'm not the Hofstadter kid, but why do people think this is ok or somehow funny?

>>7782350
He's on the right path. Also, to fill in some places, Ambrose Bierce, Sherwood Anderson, Theodor Dreiser, Frank Norris, Walt Whitman, and Hart Crane (not T.S. Eliot or Ezra Pound).

>>7782302

>>7782355

It's not okay.

You must understand, however, there are plenty of people in America who are tired of being the butt-end of every generic Liberal's ego-boosting joke.

They're cutting off the nose to spite the face; sometimes it has to be done, if only to give certain people a wakeup call.

>>7782302
To understand at least its past, and hopefully its future, read Samuel Huntington's "Who Are We?"

>>7782377
Do you think it will work? Or that in four to eight years people will remember, or give a shit? Didn't the whole electing a nigger because the previous president was a hick not work out so well? What I'm saying is after America is whatever Trump turns it into, certainly a nightmare if there ever was one, what's there to stop people from voting for another liberal just for the sake of CHANGE? Are you proposing your motivation for electing a monster is because tired of catching shit from some liberal faggots?

>>7782302
It's not necessary that you know the lyrics, but it is important that you know the dance moves. Every American is obliged to perform this dance three times a day during prayer call, and they are very alert to anyone who falls out of step:

https://youtu.be/EKeYS1P9j1c

>>7782331
>>>/pol/

>>7782604
>Are you proposing your motivation for electing a monster is because tired of catching shit from some liberal faggots?
It's because they want to see the vision of these "liberal faggots" torn to shreds. I doubt they think he'll actually improve anything.

>>7782302
Eat mcdonalds food, your welcome.

>>7782325
>If you want to understand anti-intellectualism in American life, however, read Hofstadter

East of Eden
Grapes of Wrath
Raymond Carver
John Cheever
Lorrie Moore
Kerouac
-figure out why poor people are masochists, or take jouissance is being exploited.
-scientism
STEM fetishism
boomer logic
the vietnam war

It isn't going to be a fun ride OP

>>7782302
through its literature