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- poor boys and the Fanshaws
white smoke and a hanging coffin
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Several things I'd seen recently made me realise that there is now in western culture a strong and dangerous movement away from politeness, and feminism, and paying taxes for the benefit of others, and racial integration, and any kind of sympathy for other people.
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And in it's place is a new culture that appears to many of us as being exclusively hard and ungenerous and violent.
For instance the pitiless nature of what I believe is called 'lad's television' (nothing but sport and glamourised violence and humour both racialist and anti-feminist).
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And now, as I transcribe, I'm remembering a thought of a few days ago:
(c) john chris jones 1995