6.04.2014

The Touchiness Of Contemporary America

By from Return of Kings

"All of these examples, extremely dangerous misuses of language and evidence of idiotic touchiness in the American way, recall Jonathan Swift’s definition of the human as “an animal capable of reason.” Though Americans think they are free, the control of consciousness, thought and language that stems from our narcissistic sensitivity, is endless and endlessly subtle; and the only sure thing, besides its existence, is the almost universally smug response to it: the lunatic, self-righteous assumption that it is just."

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