"It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives."

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"It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives."

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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."

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"I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States."

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"I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties."

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"Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives."

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