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DrSook's avatar

Federer retired with grace as well...My parting thoughts: What will be seen as atrocities ahead? We are so severe in demonizing folks from 1910 for racism, sexism, homophobia, colonialism, et al- despite the cultural blinders that contort perspective. So it is likely we too are contorted. Perhaps the Car will be seen as an atrocity. Standing on the curb in NYC, it feels like a terrible travesty. And flushing toilets, watering lawns, and washing sidewalks with drinking water...egad! How nuts. Will we have to erase Mark Zuckerberg's name from SF General Hospital as his infamy emerges?

Cell phones ? Toxic zoom? Maybe ice cream will be the new smoking.

There are probably customs that we all take for granted which will be looked back on with horror by our great grand children...

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JulieC's avatar

Mary, I really like that you write about "controversial" stuff, and that sometimes you write the messy, ambiguous, contradictory things that go on in all our heads. I've thought about a lot of the things I've read here, the Incel article, the great post you did about the "viscera" of writing.... Those boys on the train just looking out the window. Things like that have been in my mind for years, and I can't express them as well as you can. Take your time, but not too long....

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