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Countdown_3_2_1

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9. Bread and Circuses. Classic distraction.

Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Original post)

Mon Sep 2, 2013, 02:51 PM

Sep 2013

games, computers, electronic furniture, must have big screen TVs.
anything to occupy the time and MINDs of young people.

I forget which number it was but it was titled, "Television" in the article. So true.
Kids I know have no clue about politics. Music at their finger tips, is much easier to listen to than to commentary.

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