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How You Too Can Know that You're a Modern Man...
The Missal ^ | 11/3/06 | JWG

Posted on 12/11/2006 8:13:56 AM PST by occu77

1. Murder, crime, terrorism, injustice, evil, none of these things bother you very much. Words terrify you and hurt your feelings.

2. You're very sensitive to being very sensitive.

3. You think the whole world thinks like you do. Or ought to.

4. You can't understand how somebody could enjoy harming, raping, torturing, and dismembering others. So you don't believe it really happens.

5. You get all of your news either from Internet message boards, from comedy shows on cable channels, from late night talk shows, from syndicated cartoons, or all of these things. You think anything that is popular must be right and true. You'd rather be popular than right any day and odds are very good that you are.

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TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: character; modernman

1 posted on 12/11/2006 8:13:58 AM PST by occu77
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To: occu77
In other words, a dilettante...
2 posted on 12/11/2006 8:42:38 AM PST by jonno (...it almost seems as if the Universe must in some sense have known that we were coming...)
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To: jonno

I think that about sums it up pretty proper and all...


3 posted on 12/11/2006 5:42:13 PM PST by occu77
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