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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter

Its quite the yarn: hard to believe it was hidden inside my string

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's Cracked.com, but humor me and give these two a read. I think on these quite a bit, even after many years.

Explains much as to how we humans act towards one another:

https://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html

How the hell Trump supporters even exist:

https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-talks-about

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Huh, these are really good! I admit I definitely didn't see people born into rural poverty the same way I saw people born into urban poverty. That gives me a lot to think about!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Like 75% of my basic training division was either inner city poverty escapism or rural poverty escapism.

Ironically that became the uniting force of those people, something they could understand when everything else about the person is different.