American culture is a sheep culture–long on talk about individualism, but even longer on absolute conformity. Most still believe that individuality is based on which model car you like best–commodity identity, a selection of personalities on a shelf full of products approved by the Federal Identity Administration. I’m a Taurus aspiring to be a Lexus. Stan Goff
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  1. Even scientists and academics are frequent prey to the delusion that reality is reducible. Fear, deep and wide, is the secret motive force of much human behavior, and I think reduction is often rooted in fear. Passing over fear, I think, is the beginning of...
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  3. The author also participated in Operation Uphold Democracy (in Haiti, a year after the catastrophic denouement of Operation Restore Hope in Somalia).... Hope was not restored in Somalia. Democracy was not upheld in Haiti.
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