how they get shitty anyway

"How They Get Shitty Anyway," March 19, 2022 (#78)

title from Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt (1996)

Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel (1994)

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser (2001)

Listening to Prozac: A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self by Peter D. Kramer (1993)

The Oldest Living Confederate Tells All by Allan Gurganus (1989)

Death of a Nation: Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party by Dinesh D'Souza (2018)

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson (2012)

last line from "'Birth of A Nation': Propaganda as History" by John Hope Franklin (1979)

How They Get Shitty Anyway

We have no way of measuring whether you have any sort of

virulent and potentially lethal foodborne pathogen

particular to certain depressed patients who respond only partially to

how much of you you saw aquariumed under there--still you

shouldn’t use a forced-labor system because slavery is a very inefficient

economy and the expansion of European settlement had other

roommates, and a friend who got thrown out of a fraternity

limited to certain organs known to transmit mad cow: brains, spinal cords, eyeballs

felt masculine enough to be a father of boys, and still sensitive and

almost matter-of-fact--with me still here, a stiff beside him

firmly establishing the Republican Party as the party of white supremacy,

best understood as the outcome of the vicious circle

suddenly incredible to me that I am quaking inside, that, emotionally speaking,

draws players from throughout the district

that are ever more potent and specific in their effects on

a live person by working hard to be your victim's belated shipping

and appliances; children from different families even share

a much more pluralistic society without the presence of any

living human eye, peering into faces of joy and grief.

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