Our bizarre predicament, then, is that of impoverishment through surplus.
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In other words, these Americanisms are not an impoverishment of British English.
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Insecurity traps people in extreme impoverishment, restricts economic growth, and sparks conflict.
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The fear of communism, meanwhile, contributed to the impoverishment of urban areas.
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Never mind the mortality and impoverishment that troubled Chadwick, Marx and Engels.
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A nation that countenanced slavery for centuries still needs emancipation from spiritual impoverishment.
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We want to teach, and to be able to live without fear of impoverishment.
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"The patterns of enrichment and impoverishment are still the same," a radio host said.
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One issue gaining traction in particular is the impoverishment of doctors in rural Russia.
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"The patterns of enrichment and impoverishment are still the same," said one national radio host.
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That unequal society tended toward ugly extremes, with great new impoverishment and great new enrichment.
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Not only is she virtually friendless, she seems unaware of the impoverishment of her entire existence.
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Under his totalitarian dictatorship, economic impoverishment, political oppression, and human rights abuses have ravaged the country.
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The corruption has contributed to the country's impoverishment and left its people beholden to external influence.
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Its constant overuse to describe the Trump/Russia collusion allegations suggests not just impoverishment of language, but impoverishment of thought; Perez and his cohort routinely struggle to articulate with any precision what it is they think is actually at issue with the Trump/Russia story. Collusion?
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Meanwhile, campaigners continue to raise concerns about impoverishment and the use of child labor on cocoa farms.
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"The cheetah is the poster species for genetic impoverishment, but also a success story," Dr. O'Brien said.
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Hoping the watch will free him and his mother from their impoverishment, he foolishly visits a clockmaker.
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America blames the Castros for impoverishing the Cuban people, but we've participated in that impoverishment as well.
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Some argue, in the aggrieved tones of courtiers, that to question Warrior dominance is a sign of impoverishment.
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They face broad and widespread employment discrimination, which then results in significant unemployment and impoverishment among African Americans.
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"I find it ...a terrible sign of impoverishment that so many pensioners can't manage in Germany," she said.
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The impoverishment and suffering of this community risks further radicalization within Lebanon and destabilizing the country's system of governance.
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In the early 20th century, there was too much stigma attached to his impoverishment and mental illness, she said.
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And when it comes to national politics, let's face it: Trumpland is in effect voting for its own impoverishment.
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When all is said and done, those who mock men who cry do little but betray their own emotional impoverishment.
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During the session, he noted that only half of people today currently have access to health care without risking impoverishment.
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But, thanks to the growing gap between the one per cent and everyone else, the subjective effect is of widespread impoverishment.
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If America won the Cold War, it must be responsible for the Soviet breakup and the impoverishment of millions of Russians.
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There's an irony somewhere in such a wealthy man enabling a London run for a play steeped in miserliness and impoverishment.
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Another is that the EU will go to considerable lengths, including the impoverishment of its own members, to avoid taking hard decisions.
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While industrialization has alleviated the impoverishment of some, the urban poverty of many others is still necessitated by that very same process.
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"It is resulting in further impoverishment and marginalisation of already deprived urban communities, resulting in dispossession and creation of ghettos," she said.
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Such tired formal tics suggest an impoverishment of expressive means within contemporary radical aesthetics, but Mr. Berger himself exhibits no such lack.
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Killing off the germs that naturally occur in milk doesn't just change the way it tastes—it also contributes to its impoverishment.
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Sherrill also puts the monster to metaphoric use, confronting in both novels the spiritual impoverishment of contemporary America while feeling his age.
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The killings of hundreds of protesters over the years have exhausted a nation traumatized by state-led violence and impoverishment, he said.
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Our failure to speak to people's faith brings about moral impoverishment in a country increasingly burdened under greed, racism, corruption and inequality.
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And, for all the knowledge gained, the medicalization of misery is yet another way to avoid talking about impoverishment, destitution, and inequality.
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"There is a vicious cycle of widowhood and early marriage - impoverishment among widows is a major factor in perpetuating child marriage," she added.
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The blockade, which Israel said was imposed for security reasons, is cited by humanitarian agencies as a key reason for impoverishment in Gaza.
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The backdrop: This region has faced violence on a regular basis due to armed groups in the area, but also faces impoverishment and neglect.
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All in all, the impoverishment of the senses by means of a dumped surplus limits our awareness and diminishes the scope of experience itself.
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In Havrilesky's view, what Kondo understands but never quite says is that our excess stuff is a sign not of prosperity but of impoverishment.
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Since crude was discovered in Nigeria, in 1956, it has brought wealth and corruption, impoverishment and armed conflict—a global symbol of squandered possibility.
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The socialist vision of society doesn't rest on the impoverishment of everyone, but the comfort of everyone — we all enjoy the benefits of our work.
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That leaves them at risk of impoverishment, despite a contribution by Newmont of over $23 million dollars to a foundation run by the local communities.
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But that feels like a hollow excuse when you're facing a young mom who has lost both of her children because of impoverishment from drought.
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The numbers were stark, indicating a vast impoverishment of an entire insect universe, even in protected areas where insects ought to be under less stress.
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Consider a person with a terminal diagnosis coupled with the probability of a long, painful and possibly bankrupting death (with subsequent impoverishment of the survivors).
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In both cases, the charters beat the state average—a remarkable achievement given the impoverishment of Newark and the high quality of the state's other schools.
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Morrison had the advantage of being a former governor of the state and the disadvantage — in a moment of national impoverishment — of riches acquired through marriage.
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He retired his post in 1815 and while living in helter-skelter impoverishment in a brothel district, died eleven years later in complete obscurity and profound destitution.
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Sands said one reason might be that people attributed the black person's impoverishment to structural racism, but they didn't believe the poor white actor had any excuse.
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Fear of having missed out is, in effect, a wish for "a profound impoverishment in the world", or, as Plato put it, for "the life of a mollusc".
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In defence of the common good and against the continued impoverishment of the Mozambican people, we do not want, do not accept and will not pay the debts.
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South Sudan has imploded into impoverishment and widespread conflict, leading some to call for it to become a UN mandate, with the presence of a long-term UN force.
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"We will see more migration, more unemployment, more bankruptcies, more impoverishment," said Amirhossein Hasani, who once made kitchen equipment but now tries to make a living selling foreign exchange.
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Paraguay's Minister of Social Development Mario Varela told Reuters impoverishment stemmed from the marginalizing of indigenous people who "had never been included, nor their original culture respected" in Paraguayan society.
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"We will continue to fight the European Union with all our soul because it is an instrument for the impoverishment of people," she said in the wake of Philippot's resignation.
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That is particularly shrewd as "he has murdered his relative at an international airport, and millions of North Koreans do live in impoverishment, or in prison camps," Baptist told CNBC.
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Spiritual impoverishment: This is the dimension of American life in 2019 that the Christians I spoke to captured so well, which the language of faith can help even nonbelievers articulate.
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Hate speech is on the rise on social networks in Germany after Merkel allowed in a million refugees fleeing civil war and economic impoverishment in the Middle East and North Africa.
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The city's infrastructure is crumbling from years of neglect and under-investment, generating widespread bitterness as locals contrast their impoverishment with the oil wealth the province provides for federal government coffers.
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Together, we can meet our pledges and lift entire communities out of impoverishment, creating great social benefit while equipping our employees to meet the high-skilled needs of our growing economy.
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A long-standing Israeli-Egyptian blockade on Gaza is cited by humanitarian agencies as a key reason for impoverishment in the narrow coastal enclave, into which 2 million Palestinians are packed.
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This would show Venezuelans the U.S. is not seeking the further impoverishment of the country but rather a commitment to the rights and democratic values enshrined in the existing Venezuelan constitution.
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"The uncertainty and general impoverishment among the middle class in Italy in recent years has made it ever more difficult for families to bring a child into the world," the group said.
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And as if these were not sins enough, Tim Martin, the mulleted owner of JD Wetherspoon, used his most prominent of pub corps to shunt the nation towards the chaos and impoverishment of Brexit.
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Something else occurs entirely, as Freud writes: Now the melancholic displays something else which is lacking in grief—an extraordinary fall in his self-esteem, an impoverishment of his ego on a grand scale.
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"Communities who are already very vulnerable -- who are already suffering from impoverishment, who may be in areas that may be affected by climate change -- are pushed to the limits of their coping mechanisms," Yonetani said.
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We don't know exactly how many of these former Medicaid beneficiaries have disabilities, but we know that they are all now at greater risk of impoverishment, preventable illness and premature death than they were before.
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Many on the left have come to see the concerns that the right raises about deficits—which tend to surface only when it is not in power—less as economic prudence than a partisan politics of impoverishment.
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" While "moral statistics" take the measure of individual welfare—through figures on, for instance, mental suffering, impoverishment or imprisonment, and disability or death—"capitalizing" statistics measure economic costs, such as the price in dollars of "lost productivity.
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Chinese president Xi Jinping has declared war on poverty, and instructed local governments to eliminate impoverishment to create a "moderately well-off society" by the beginning of 2021, in time for centenary of the ruling Communist Party.
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The Y chromosome is a true chromosomal outlier, holding a fraction of the number of genes found on all the other chromosomes, including the X. Its genetic impoverishment is a legacy of its role in sex determination.
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BRIAN PACHECO, NEW YORK To the Editor: Highlighting a recent incident at Middlebury College, Frank Bruni ascribes much of the blame for this refusal to listen to opposing views to "emotional coddling" and "intellectual impoverishment" at colleges.
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"The increases in inflation, coupled with the devaluation obviously generates impoverishment for the population in real terms, in terms of purchasing capacity, and that affects industrial production," said Alberto Bernal, chief market strategist at U.S.-based XP Securities.
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Sachs, who runs a research institute at Columbia University and advises many governments on poverty issues, said there had to be a holistic approach, looking at the root causes of child labor, such as impoverishment, conflicts or disasters.
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The 35-member team, led by Pavel Dobrynin and Stephen O'Brien, both of the Dobzhansky Center, figured out the specific underpinnings of the cheetah's genetic impoverishment and glimpsed the evolutionary chain of events that produced its unparalleled running speed.
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Instead of risking further impoverishment as an artist, while still a relatively young man he bought the rights to a play that scored a big success; he has grown old performing in that warhorse, sacrificing his artistry for cash.
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It drags and sometimes bores, which makes it easier for your mind to drift elsewhere, to thoughts of family, deadlines, chores, the creative impoverishment of the big studios and the casual, fundamentally corrupt commercial exploitation of the child audience.
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The undismissible truth is that many people prefer a life of violence and impoverishment if they feel that it is necessary to the triumph of their tribe, particularly if they feel their tribe has been insulted by the cosmopolitans.
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Similarly, the religious partisan can say something almost identical: You are a member of a great community of believers who have been traduced by nonbelievers; this betrayal has led not just to your impoverishment, but is a crime against God himself.
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Given everything Iraqis and Syrians have lived through under ISIS subjugation — amputations, stonings, beheadings, forced displacement, manipulation, psychological trauma, war, and impoverishment — it is highly unlikely regional powers would sit idle and fail to resist the resurgence of the group.
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In July, the Ministry of Education agreed to promote the use of Creole in all levels of the school system; this could be a key component of the country's struggle to escape from school failures, chronic impoverishment, and anti-democratic rule.
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While headlines run all day about how high the Nasdaq closed, how many jobs were created last month, or perhaps the future of electric cars, there is one news story that needs more attention: the economic collapse and impoverishment of Puerto Rico.
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But those same ardent passions resurfaced powerfully over the weekend, inspired by the clamor for Mr. Mugabe to go — as if the country had drawn a parabola beginning and ending in hope but passing on its course through violence, oppression and impoverishment.
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Trump, since he admires authoritarian personalities, might be pleased to know that Marx supported free trade on a "the worse things get" theory: by driving wages lower, free trade increases the impoverishment of the working class and leads more quickly to the revolution.
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And this is one of the greatest dangers that we are facing and it really is the result of a kind of philosophical impoverishment of just taking for granted philosophical ideas from the 18th century and not updating them with the findings of science.
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This is the formative milieu of the man who at first ignores, and then does not ignore, the group of African refugees in Alexanderplatz—a fortunate contemporary European who nevertheless has his own history, however far off, of displacement, warfare, borders, and comparative impoverishment.
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Fiorina drew my attention to the book "Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse," by Mary Ann Glendon, a law professor at Harvard, who, he said, argued that making so many policy issues into matters of rights and taking them to the courts was counterproductive.
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Not exactly, though "America" from the 5.53 musical West Side Story does deal with many of the relevant issues — debt, Puerto Rico's relative impoverishment vis-a-vis the United States, the possibility of mass emigration, and the island's oft-misunderstood political relationship with the mainland United States.
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If things fall apart, it could be because "Trump presents Kim with a hard-and-fast binary choice: relinquish nuclear weapons and live in peace and prosperity, or cling to them and risk the impoverishment of your people and the safety of your regime," Haas said.
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I find it really sad that a phenomenon that has caused death and has meant a general impoverishment of our land and culture is sold as a laughable token to take back once you visited the Island What perspective does your distance as an expat give you?
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Between the hyperinflation of 1991 to '93 (which destroyed the savings of many citizens, especially the elderly) and the devaluation and financial crisis of 1998 (which devastated the green shoots of the nascent market economy), many ordinary Russians began to identify "democracy" with impoverishment and rank injustice.
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But many independent studies have demonstrated that hydropower projects in Southeast Asia — especially large ones — directly contribute to erosion, the decimation of fish stocks and biodiversity, and the further impoverishment of rural communities that are forced to leave the dam sites and move to less-fertile land.
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Stamm — whose wry, spare fiction I can't recommend highly enough — had given a speech insisting on the necessary separateness of art from politics; to introduce the topical and overtly political into fiction, he thought, was a form of impoverishment, or even worse, of opportunism and self-promotion.
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"I think that … Indigenous peoples across the country have been coerced into a lot of these agreements because of a long history of colonialism and impoverishment and deprivation," said Anne Spice, a Tlingit supporter of the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs who was among those arrested earlier this month.
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"These measures are carefully calibrated to deny the Maduro dictatorship a critical source of financing to maintain its illegitimate rule, protect the United States financial system from complicity in Venezuela's corruption and in the impoverishment of the Venezuelan people," the White House said in a statement.
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Mizrahim rightfully came to resent this discrimination, along with their impoverishment and lack of political representation, and, as Israel's survivalist wars gave way to ongoing conflict with Palestinians, they voiced their dissent through accusing their Ashkenazi leaders of weakness: Ashkenazim were liberal humanists unwilling, or unable, to protect them.
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Soon, the only territory Britain still held was the trading outpost of Hong Kong, a successful free economy with a vibrant civil society and the rule of law — and a haven for people fleeing impoverishment and repression on mainland China after the communists came to power in 1949.
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"Mnangagwa's austerity measures and the accompanying (impoverishment)... of most Zimbabweans makes many feel they were better off under Mugabe, but the former president had set the country on a unsustainable course that at some point was going to crash," said Piers Pigou, Crisis Group's senior consultant for southern Africa.
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The economic impoverishment of its principals is a key motivating factor; there's a strong implication that it steered Zhou into criminality, while Liu's matter-of-fact approach to prostitution (revealed in a "love" scene that begins with notes of tenderness and ends with blunt retching) carries a near-tragic resignation.
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And this is why I began by saying that we suffer from philosophical impoverishment, that we are still running on the ideas of the basically the 221th century, which are good for two or three centuries, which were very good, but which are simply not adequate to understanding what's happening right now.
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So of course people are going to want magick: to make meaning in their lives, to empower themselves, to vibe themselves up to the point that they feel like they can make a difference in the world, because they live in a state of total spiritual impoverishment that their culture tells them can be fixed with a new iPhone.
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Those poorer voters — whose anti-immigrant anger is energetically encouraged and exploited by the president's wealthy constituents — are still howling, "Build that wall!" even as they continue to vote for politicians whose policies add to their own impoverishment — suppressing wages, gutting public schools, blocking access to health care, increasing gun violence, poisoning the places where they live.
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