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		sameoldtune on July 22, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Man of the Hole My indigenous partner likes to make a quip: when someone mentions “the apocalypse” he asks “which apocalypse?”

SequoiaHope on July 22, 2024 [–]

Reminds me of the book I read “The Culture of Make Believe” about how we pretend the world is different than it really is. It has a chapter called “Holocausts” and notes that in US culture we tend to think there was just one, but there have been many.

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