2/ The quote "There's no there there" is about LA, but it really should be about NJ. Albion's Seed is interesting, but it doesn't go far enough. NJ was originally Quaker-ish, but so close to NYC, it go overwhelmed with wave after wave after wave. Albion then German then
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3/ PolandItalyIrelandFranceCheckPoleIrishAgainRussianJewSwedeItalian Take some interesting shapes and throw it in a rock tumbler with abrasive for 200 years and at the end, there's no shape, there's just lowest-common-denominator spheroids
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4/ There is no ethnicity, no culture, no ideology other than - and may Allah forgive me for sounding like a 19 year old neoreactionary kid - no ideology other than commerce. Bagel shop office park drive through tanning booth is the religion of NJ and there's a church every 5 ft
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6/ I honestly prefer smug smarmy progs of Boston to NJ Say what you will about the tenets of n̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶a̶l̶ ̶s̶o̶c̶i̶a̶l̶i̶s̶m̶ Succesor Ideology at least it's an ethos Ppl have worn against each other in NJ so long that no one has any opinions 1mm outside the Overton Window
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7/ Yep. Every offramp is the same. Bagel shop stereo store dentist office Staples Chilis Lowes Discount Rugs muffer shop https://twitter.com/TheAgeofShoddy/status/1279143458964254721 …
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8/ Yep. LA has, as I understand it, neighborhoods. https://twitter.com/TheAgeofShoddy/status/1279143458964254721 …
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NJ gets a very bad rap, but if you were born and raised here you know that it deserves far worse.
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And if you're not from here and you say anything like that, we will destroy you.
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Sounds like much of California.
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