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Great piece!

Where did you get the 70% of people in the US are college grads statistic? I recall reading that it was around 30%. I got 37.7% when I just googled it. https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/percentage-of-americans-with-college-degrees/#:~:text=In%20the%20Census%20Bureau's%20most,previous%20year%20at%20around%2037.7%25.

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yeah. you're right, and i think I misphrased what is true at around 70%. it might be "have more than a high school diploma" which includes starting but not graduating college?

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Thank you Jamie, energetically mind- and soul-crushing as always. At least as the TsunamiGeddon rears above me and mine for the final denouement, I can clutch my leather-bound collection of your essays and whimper my way, forwarmed( sic) and fortitillated if not forearmed into the dark swirling whirlpool that awaits us all. Except those danged elites.

Another sign that the end is near: Philosophers like Charles Eisenstein are waxing politically evangelical... about RFreakingK jr.

“Doh! It works on so many levels!”

-Homer Simpson, Esq.

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I live to serve

(and crush minds and souls ;)

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And yet you still manage to uplift in some wildly weird way.

How goes the new book?

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Audre Lorde’s book The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House may help your baffled sense of where we are with the renaissance. Hint: your placing its beginning with yt boomers is telling.

This medicine predates humans. It will always be more than what these institutions or the capitalist backers want it to be. It won’t fix hegemonic, cos-het yt supremacy. That could be part of the integration. But without facing that, it’s still an elite party drug.

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Excellent, and always helpful. Thank you!

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If you enjoyed that, you might enjoy "Torches & Pitchforks" by Cracker: https://youtu.be/3MlpakTP24I

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