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American culture has often had an out of touch quality.

The Civil War was the deadliest conflict in our history. It turbocharged an industrial revolution that caused huge social disruption.

Yet US culture was overly refined and rarely reflected that turbulence. We're in a similar time now.

The culture, especially literature and film-TV, are feminized. There's an overemphasis on subjective states and not enough on examining the world in which we all live.

Books and shows are filled with saccharine, feel-good sentiments that ignore the savage realities of life.

We need more writers like Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis.

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All wars are banker wars and they are all based on lies. The civil war is one of the greatest. All the big money changers gain by starting and then funding wars . The profits come during and after the blood is spilled. The war on drugs , cancer, poverty, illiteracy, hunger, you name it are all based on lies.One thing I can be certain of is that everything we have been "officially" told has been bollocks.

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I must add, the great satirist Tom Wolf would do wonders with today.

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Agreed.

Tom Wolfe, not Tom Wolf.

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