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>American Anxiety  - James howard Kunstler - 
Well said. The challenge is how to change the mindset of those who feel alienated from mainstream society in the US (or who cling to it since it absolves them from having to make a success of their lives in the mainstream?). I would have thought that the symbolic value of having a black president would have been helpful in promoting a culture of acceptance but the races seem more polarized than ever, not least because of asinine comments from said president such as his kneejerk espousal of the young black man in the Zimmerman case, before justice had run its course. As an observor from outside of the US it seems to me that Americans are obsessed with race. The country, and indeed the whole world, is paying the price for the sins of the plantation owners.

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Beginning of the headline :“The whole world was watching this case to see if everybody can get equal justice, not just certain people,” Benjamin Crump, the lawyer for Mr. Martin’s family, said on Sunday. —The New York Times I’m not so sure the whole world was watching. The rest of the world is quite preoccupied with countless other events careening toward criticality — civil war in the Middle East, bankruptcy all over Europe, riots in Brazil, the global bond market, a mystery epidemic in India,etc — and if they are watching, they must be mystified by what they see... Read More
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