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Thanks for teaching me the word "anarch."

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I love your attitude & your enthusiasm for learning.

We can always learn new things, especially with the Internet. I was a latchkey kid in the 60's & 70's & I used to read the ancient (1940ish) encyclopedias we had at home, just out of curiosity. My mom also took us to the library every other Saturday, where I could browse to my heart's content. I read about ancient Troy, the Oregon Trail, and a lot of children's literature by English writers, describing forests & meadows & gardens I could only dream about, because I grew up in Phoenix. I eventually discovered science fiction & fantasy, which opened my mind to other worlds & other possibilities. I just devoured everything on the shelves. All that classic sci-fi & the dystopian futures it described taught me to be wary of big government, which seeks to control every aspect of our lives.

And that, my friends, is why I never fell for the "pandemic" (among other things). Science fiction taught me to regard the government with a very skeptical eye. And to think, it was once considered low-brow.

Hmph!

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