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randomnessWhy is it that well-meaning people fail to understand when people have issues, even emotional landmines, about certain subjects, and still keep banging on about them.
Are they simply clueless? Do they not listen? Or is it that they say things so they can hear themselves talk? What?
Are they simply clueless? Do they not listen? Or is it that they say things so they can hear themselves talk? What?
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Date: 2009-03-17 08:50 am (UTC)As an aside, Larry Niven wrote a short story set in LA whose conclusion was that anarchy wasn't stable; it broke down into violent chaos too easily. I guess living there in the period between the 1965 Watts and the 1992 riots may have informed his thinking on the subject.