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Favoriting December 21, 2020: Station Manager Ken with Poet and Author Elisa Gabbert on Doomscrolling, Contagious Conversion Disorder and More

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Please call in live (201-209-9368) at the conclusion of today's interview to discuss the following questions:

Do you doomscroll?

Are Q-Anon and Flat Earth mania the "dancing manias" of the internet age?

Is anybody you know really rooting for the apocalypse? Are you?


Links for tonight's guest Elisa Gabbert: @egabbert

Elisa on Twitter: Elisagabbert.com

The Unreality of Memory and Other Essays


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Listener comments!

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ultradamno:

Ken! Techtonillenarianists!
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Handy Haversack:

TechStaychers!
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Bas NL:

Hi Ken! Techdoomscrollers!
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tim from champaign (now washington):

Hi Staysh!
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Hi, Ken. Let us now gather around the Techto Junction, with its warm glowing warming glow.
  6:04pm
David in London:

Evening Technoids.
Handy, ultradamno, tim.
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Bas NL:

Chronic dancer.. that's me.
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ultradamno:

Hiya DiL!
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-Ken:

Hi everybody!
  6:06pm
hoeg:

i knew doomscrolling was bad when i found myself quickly changing window when someone came in the room
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:06pm
DjLorraine:

My bf and I are listening
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PaulRobeson1920:

Howd’y!
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tim from champaign (now washington):

I'd prefer the have the tagline "Master of Disaster".
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Carmichael:

Hello Kenneth and dancemania enthusiasts.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:09pm
melinda:

Hi everyone!
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Webhamster Henry:

Winsor McKay animated the sinking of the Lusitania!
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ultradamno:

So the media created bulimia but Karen Carpenter died of it before anyone was talking about it, what a visionary.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:11pm
PaulRobeson1920:

that reminds me of a George Carlin bit. The world will be just fine, the earth will be just fine. It’s people that are f’d!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:11pm
-Ken:

What year did Karen Carpenter die? I think Elisa says that the first case of Bulimia was in 1979, and it hit the medical literature in 1982, and then mainstream coverage following that.
  6:12pm
castor:

Hello all! I am very excited about this topic. My obsession lately is the collapse of the western Roman empire and all that rhymes with today's crises
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:12pm
Webhamster Henry:

The tsunami video where the whole scene fills with water - will the bridge get taken down? Yes then a house floats by.
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ultradamno:

83
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melinda:

She died in 1983 according to wikipedia
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Carmichael:

February 1983.
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PaulRobeson1920:

Give peace a chance. Tell your neighbor
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:13pm
ultradamno:

So to die of it, she had to have it for awhile.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:13pm
ultradamno:

The Greeks knew how to make bulimia fun.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:13pm
-Ken:

Elisa is not claiming that the media created Anorexia, just binging and purging
  6:13pm
castor:

there is no one apocalypse but many apocalypses for many peoples
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ultradamno:

I don't think the media helped at all, but I think that gives them more than a little too much credit.
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-Ken:

And, you have clearly researched this issue, ultradamno? You've looked into the history of Bulimia diasgnoses?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:17pm
-Ken:

No, of course you haven't.
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ultradamno:

So if I don't have a PhD in the subject, I can't have an informed opinion? Come on, Ken.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:18pm
-Ken:

No, you don't have an informed opinion at all. You haven't researched this issue in the slightest. In any way. You are talking through your ass. Which is your right.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:19pm
ultradamno:

Well, I don't think that's at all fair and I don't see why you're being defensive about it.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Apocalypse of course is a Biblical word - interestingly Greek, not Hebrew. It's Mythological - Archetypal. That is, it's kind of hardwired for humans to think about the End of the World as much as it is the Beginning of it...
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PaulRobeson1920:

The ancient Grecco-Roman world would see epidemics kill a full half of the city every 25-50 years. This is the environment people like Epictetus grew up in.
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TDK60:

Thanks for the fill-in, Ken. Just listening.
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Webhamster Henry:

Happiness consultant: DJ Stashu!
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-Ken:

I think it's very fair. If you are taking issue with somebody who has researched the issue and come to certain conclusions, why dont you address the research or bring up your own research?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:21pm
Phillippe Bastille:

Howdy
  6:22pm
P-90:

No we’re not “all secretly hoping for the end, c’mon dude.
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melinda:

It's hard for me to imagine what it's like to believe in a rapture, or even an afterlife worth looking forward to.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

There's your wonderful herd immunity - ask the Native Americans who got that imported when they hadn't had centuries of Europeans living with animals & such...
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ultradamno:

...or you could present facts that prove me wrong rather than resorting to insults.
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melinda:

@Henry true!
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-Ken:

Im glad you're not, P-90. A LOT of people are, and certain groups like Evangelical Christians are not even secret about it. They are rotting for the rapture very openly.
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-Ken:

@Ultradamno, Elisa points out that the first medical article about Bulimia was in 1982. And the mass diagnoses followed that. So show me the bulimia diagnoses that preceded 1982.
  6:25pm
P-90:

The yearly flu IS the Spanish Flu.
  6:25pm
castor:

The difference with the 21st century crisis is that we've never faced this scale of climate change in thousands of years, so even if none of the other problems cause collapse, climate disruption most definitely will since we don't have the means or will to properly adjust to it while also keeping our current way of life.
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northguineahills:

Plague masks of the bubonic plaque had various herbs in the beaks (damnit, too slow!)
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ultradamno:

Aside from the Greeks?
  6:26pm
David in London:

Ring a ring a roses, a pocket full of posies.
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melinda:

btw, happy solstice everyone!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

'Secretly hoping' - myself I wouldn't be quick to conclude what is - or isn't ! - in the collective unconscious. The mind is a funny instrument!
I think about Martin King noting we have guided missiles & misguided leaders. Incredible technology - for mass destruction. Does this come from Christianist conceptions of world order & fate? Look @ the official policy towards the 'holy land'. Armageddon was a Place...
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northguineahills:

Not related, but in the UK, they have a game to see home long you can go w/o hearing Wham!'s "Last Xmas". I just heard a cover in a grocery store. I still can win, right?
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Webhamster Henry:

@castor: "We" incudes everything alive and some geological features as well (coasts, glaciers, air and water streams) as well.
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ultradamno:

1972 www.thecut.com...
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PaulRobeson1920:

What is the good life, and how do I lead it?

(Happiness as a consequence of living virtuously... Or does it come from buttered popcorn?)
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tim from champaign (now washington):

@_Ken - just to clarify (not arguing), are you saying that bulimia was not diagnosed until the 80s? Diagnosed being the key word. It seems like binging and purging had to have existed before then.
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Webhamster Henry:

ngh: Here, it's Little Drummer Boy. littledrummerboychallenge.com
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ultradamno:

You better have your own book to back that up Tim
  6:29pm
David in London:

NGH, it’s called Whamageddon, and for the first time in about 4 years, I’m still in. Unlike my wife...
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-Ken:

Yes, aside from the vomitoriums which I think was very different. That Cut article is interesting and it does back up Elisa's thesis.
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ultradamno:

Was it different? It was likely as compulsive and had to have the same health consequences.
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listener 126464:

Satanic Panic In The Attic
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ultradamno:

If I can posit an opinion without footnotes.
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melinda:

@listener 126464 those were weird times.
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-Ken:

Ultradamno, Elisa is articulating her research right now. Maybe you should read the book and then converse with her on twitter about it.
  6:32pm
carrots:

vocal fry?
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listener james from westwood:

Oh, wow, I read an essay on Morgellons a while back—that is one helluva belief.
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melinda:

Morgellon's is a weird one. I heard Joni Mitchell had it.
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Webhamster Henry:

Here are 1.2K Slenderman fanfic stories: www.wattpad.com...
  6:35pm
Dean:

OED has more than a dozen references to bulimia pre-'80s, back to the 14th century. A 1978 issue of JAMA supplies, "A possible disorder (bulimia), which included self-induced vomiting as a feature, has been proposed by the American Psychiatric Association's Task Force on Nomenclature and Statistics." This suggests one couldn't "diagnose" a condition not yet established ("a possible disorder"). But clearly it was a condition investigated by medical professionals for ages. E.g., Robert Boyle in 1665: "He now thinks the chief cause of the Bulimia to consist in certain steams, that do peculiarly affect the stomack, which they gnaw and distend." Here Boyle identifies a condition relating to appetite, which might have been the source of a subsequent, professionally refined definition. There are many similar examples.
  6:36pm
P-90:

Now I’m curious to see what she actually wrote about bulimia.
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chris in the redwoods:

this is fascinating! must read this book. thanks, Ken and Elisa. also, Hi! (i used to have dreams that parasites were exiting my skin. quite disturbing)
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ultradamno:

And we're back to condescending
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northguineahills:

@david: So, am I still in?

I always wanted a vomitorium in my home....
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PaulRobeson1920:

The ancient world was very warty. Most people had warts and lots of em!
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melinda:

I read an article about Morgellon's where one doctor said they probably have a legit neurological problem that manifests as a subdermal irritation.
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tim from champaign (now washington):

Does Elisa cover the Satanic panic in the 80s in the book?
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

My understanding is bulimia is a manifestation (interesting word) of an urge for control - when one feels one can't control other things. It's not hard to imagine a psycho-social component to that - especially in light of bodyshaming & unnatural emphasis on skinniness.
History of medicine ? I know nothing...
Cutting - I never heard of it when I was a school kid - then it seemed epidemic !
How about those evil clowns before the 2016 election ! Didn't need StephenKing's analyst for that...
Info & disinformation - it's all I the same Helvetica ! :D ...
  6:38pm
David in London:

NGH, covers don’t count, only the original. So you’re still in.
  6:38pm
castor:

vomitoriums were what they called the exit halls in Rome
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G:

Stash taking no prisoners this hour :-)
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Bas NL:

i used to read a lot of books on alien abductions. Always puzzled me.
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-Ken:

Oh my God, I forgot that Joni Mitchell suffered from Morgellons!
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melinda:

That Flat Earth doc was pretty good, it did convey the sense of community they've built.
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-Ken:

Yeah, the vomitoriums in the Coliseum were for people who were exposed to the blood and carnage from the "games" and found their stomach turned, so they walked into the lobby and hurled. It was not a dieting / weight loss thing at all.
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northguineahills:

@David: *Homer voice* "Woohoo!"
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

In context of the Collective Unconscious - a shared unconscious from racial memory - human population had expanded exponentially.
So - how many people for how long does it take to carry that sort of consensus energy ?
  6:42pm
castor:

each crisis becomes the new normal, this is how things fall apart without us even realizing
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

*has - is
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Frog in boiling water.
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ultradamno:

Pierre Janet began discussing symptoms of bulimia in the early 1900’s in “Obsessions et la Psychasthenie www.eatingdisorderhope.com...
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Webhamster Henry:

Innumeracy kills!
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PaulRobeson1920:

Critical thinking is learned skill...

The way we symbolize our experiences too shape our world view and ways of knowing.. “NO GRAVEN IMAGES”

Ho Ho Ho
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tim from champaign (now washington):

Wait, so morgellons is cloth fibers in the skin? Do I have that right?
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Webhamster Henry:

Godwin's Law song!
brianwoodbury.bandcamp.com...
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listener james from westwood:

Ohhhh, that "it is..." phrase makes me stabby.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:46pm
Webhamster Henry:

"Boys will be boys!" CASE CLOSED!
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listener 126464:

I never comment.
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-Ken:

Not very convincing,, that article ultrdamno. S/he describes binging,but not purging.
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chris in the redwoods:

also i thought the point was *media* spreading the illness, but whatevs...
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ultradamno:

Well, it's all eating disorders. You're kind of splitting hairs.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:50pm
Webhamster Henry:

If she's on Twitter we can doomscroll!
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Constance De Witt:

Thank you for the interview, just been doomscrolling her Instagram account.
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Handy Haversack:

Thanks, Ken and Elisa. Been cooking this whole time. Have thoughts, but nothing I can compress to the accu. A thanatophilic culture coming out of hundreds of years of capitalist oppression is kind of where they start.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Gorge. Be Thin. I'm reminded of things Alan Watts said about society & mixed messages fwiw...
I love Godzilla destroying cities. Why? I'm not into slashers & shockers...
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Fox:

I've actually stopped paying attention to the news. I used to listen to the BBC for hours a day. Now, I just avoid it.
  6:53pm
Dean:

The interview discussion of logical fallacies reminds me that I need to read David Hackett Fischer's Historians' Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought.

You know who else isn't secret about the rapture? Blondie.
  6:53pm
ignatatus666:

I have never heard so many things I disagree with on Techtonic, no I’m not a flat earthed. Can’t discuss what I actually disagree with because there are many listeners that attack people with a difference of opinion.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

I find myself refreshing the CNN web site every couple of hours to see if misfortune has befallen the orange-colored dude who's on TV all the time.
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Carmichael:

@Rev, history tells us again and again how nature points out the folly of man.
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tim from champaign (now washington):

@Fox - I've switched from electronic news to physical newspapers. That helps me.
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Fox:

Given that the virus has now mutated, I feel like my obsession with 12 Monkeys years ago was good preparation for the future.
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PaulRobeson1920:

If that child should end up in a prison!
As sometimes chance will deal to honest men,
One room is like another to a stranger
Any man of worth will be his friend!
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Webhamster Henry:

They put raised dots on our local curb cuts which make a kind of way for visually impaired people to tell they've hi the curb cut.
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Carmichael:

@Fox, we'll all live in underground bunk beds.
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iiibeat:

There is relief when "it" happens to someone else and not you . . Like hurricanes.
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Fox:

Tim - I keep meaning to find that slow news site, or just subscribe to The Economist.
  6:55pm
Listener Robert:

I thought they compensated for the beveling with those stipples so blind people would feel them thru their shoes. But the installers may not have caught up yet.
  6:55pm
Dean:

Yeah, but I'm not in my roaring 20s.
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listener james from westwood:

"Different" is probably a more realistic outlook than "better."
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Carmichael:

And don't say "back to normal" ....
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PaulRobeson1920:

Haven't turned on a T.V since 2014 and I do not doom scroll. I try to focus on wholesome things. Graduated SUNY Oswego 2015
  6:59pm
Listener Robert:

Hi, Ken, looks like you saved the best interviewee for yourself. Nah, I know you did your own producing and research, great job of it tonight.
  6:59pm
P-90:

Yes, most of them really believe. In part because their threshold of credulity is so low. And yes, the internet makes it easier to spread these “alternative” sciences and histories.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

SciFi & Horror obviously relate to Mythology functionally - I love the book 'The Monster Show' about imagery & the collective psyche. I guess New Media is what many - all of us? - are involved in for such impulses - with less conscious sublimation or distinction between fact & fiction. As Campbell said about religious dogmatics - they mistake connotation for denotation. & the Tech monopolies profit massively from it...
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Webhamster Henry:

The true stuff on the internet makes untrue stuff smell true.
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Carmichael:

Thank you, Kenneth.
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PaulRobeson1920:

I’m wondering If the author has read any Neil Postman? NYC’s own son
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chris in the redwoods:

bravo, SMK.
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Bas NL:

Thanks Ken! Thanks Elisa!
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tim from champaign (now washington):

Thanks, Staysh!
  7:00pm
P-90:

Certainly made me want to check out her book!
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PaulRobeson1920:

May i ask her that?
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Webhamster Henry:

Good show Ken! I'll have to read that book!
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PaulRobeson1920:

Gotta LoVe WFMU!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Henry 6:59 !
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