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He loved Big Brother

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13. I hate to say it but
Sat Jun 2, 2012, 10:31 AM
Jun 2012

I am only an early 30-something but I think the answer is that it's become disturbingly easier in Western culture for people to go about in pity for themselves without any perspective, so self-centeredness and apathy are more the norm than they were compared to just ten years ago. Even white men have started to think they have it shitty. To quote, "It's like fuck, white men, if you're losing, who the hell is winning?" It's both too much and too little free time on our hands, if that makes sense.

Activism feels more isolating than it did whenI first began doing it in 1999. But it would be worse to be unable to fight, and the worst would be lack of desire to keep fighting. Nothing worth dying for ever comes easy.

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