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One can understand a culture by the distinctions it makes, whether those distinctions have soft boundaries or are cleanly defined, whether they are held on an unconscious level or consciously acknowledged. American culture has particular difficulty with the distinction between the simple and the simplistic, often confusing the two. If you push onward far enough, you will come to the frontier where consensual reality leaves off, where the machine ends and you begin. When you meet yourself there, the experience may seem flat. You had been led to expect something more. The simplicity of the © 1995 Morgan Garwood all rights reserved |
