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xocetaceans

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4. And that is part of the divide. That shift in perspective seems not to dawn on people who've never been to cities or...
Fri Jan 10, 2025, 01:33 PM
Jan 2025

...experienced anything other than the back forty. That is not saying rural people necessarily have any sort of bad intentions or attitudes. In some cases, they just don't know what others experience and are ignorant or naive. With the internet and much better communications today, perhaps that lack of perspective has been reduced. It could also be that the internet has siloed hate and the algorithms amplify whatever views for which one chooses to search. I don't know which side wins out ultimately, but disinformation, criminality, and hucksterism barely won this last election, and that is not a good sign of positive aspects of the state of the internet as it is.

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