On Earth with Ocean Vuong
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
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America Is a Pattern of Death Right Out of the Gate
I get the sense, based on what i understand of you, that you are more keenly aware of the depths of this mirage than most people are. Our identity as a country was founded on geneside and slavery. And so much of the cultural force is uneasy with that. The john waynes, the clinese woods. It's this idea that the west was just a blank piece of paper,. That any settlement, any development on it, would be a benefit to the land. This myth is so powerful because it necessitates the future. American needed that myth, that this benevolent productivity, in order to arrive where it arrives now. We're actually quite primitive, and we're
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