I would say I am heartbroken right now My personal life is going exceptionally well. But the state and trajectory of the world are terrifically Bad I think this calls for some examination
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9/11 was a shock. It came right after my 20C European history class, and after a 20C history unit in English. (St Paul has a large Hmong population, and my teacher was half Japanese; coverage of Internment and Vietnam was brutal.) So, I was prepared to freak out. And I did.
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It felt--suffocating. Everyone around me lost their minds in tandem. A friend who is currently a center leftist in good standing wrote a poem about how he was going to be sad when people rolled up their American flags after forgetting what the moment felt like
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Got my first taste of left politics in 2003 when Michael Moore came to speak at my college. I am glad to say that while I showed up eager to hear anyone speak against the war, i left horrified halfway through. I'd never seen a talented demagogue before.
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Blogs started cropping up around this time and they were intoxicating Most people were still eager to fight, but some weren't, and seeing Contemporary Discourse (generally very good) without a filter was a revelation
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The spell of the War was good and finally broken around Katrina, when I think the country collectively realized Bush was broken. It was a bit of a relief, but even then--I don't know. I don't think things seemed anywhere near as bad during the GWoT as they do now.
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skipping class with my best friend to go play Starcraft and Total Annihilation at his house
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There. This is probably why I follow you acct.
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me to gf "this is how you know eigen is an elder millennial - he played Civ 2 - I played Civ 3"
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an incredible game. SMAC also
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