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Robert Conquest
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Yes. Wait. No. Wait. Yes. OK what does that mean?
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I haven't seen one in 30 years.
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I found nothing.
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Spicy is a distraction. Just give the the food.
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I think most Americans have a narrow view of 'American values' and tend to believe that virtue comes from someplace else. Virtue comes from within. I also think that America is too dynamic for any one set of values to dominate the whole place. I learned that when I first moved to NY from Los Angeles and realized New Yorkers really don't understand LA at all. I've stayed too many places in the US - every major city - to be convinced that there's not enough room for everybody. There's just not enough room for everyone to dominate.
I could not bear the thought of moving to someplace where none of my jokes make sense, and I'm too full of American culture to start learning again. So the specific answer to your question is this. There's only one really excellent reason to leave America, and that's when you get kicked out. There's a good reason to retire somewhere else, but only if you're stinking rich and are absolutely sure you're never going to get arrested there. I'll take an American court any day - everybody hates sleazebag liberal defense attorneys until they need one.
The best American value is to find a small town of 500 and take it over. Then it's *your* American values that rule. If you can't do that in the country of your birth, then it means you're willing to take it from some other country. OK if you're James Baldwin perhaps - but he didn't have kids. -
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Investigating...
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He's the fairest of ten thousand. Everybody ought to know.
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This is amazing. I absolutely want to see Fortran Man again.
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I didn't know this existed. I will do so as soon as I find it.
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I use the right tool for the right job. But I own mostly PC software...
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Only to the weak ones who still feel significantly defined by old racial stereotypes and have not managed to eliminate their effect on their psyche.
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The mountains. The prairies. The oceans, white with foam.
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Cursing somebody out.
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Michael Bowen’s Bio
dad. architect. writer. entrepreneur.
