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Kevin is a 29 year old single guy from Arvada, Colorado, USA.
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Catholic classicist, gentleman of leisure, crackpot

I made a tool for intermediate language students, especially Latinists, at semi-fluent.com. I discovered StumbleUpon when I saw loads of welcome traffic in my site logs.

I also have a more substantive blog at blogspot called Philokalia Republic.

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sp!ked review of books | The cultural contradictions of consumerism
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From the Page: Similarly, Barber says that we need to become civic `gatekeepers', protecting children from the video games and junk food that would corrupt them. For him, a civic mission lies primarily in controlling people's access to the unwholesome aspects of the market. This is a public ethic that is not the transcendence of individual self-interest and desire, but merely its negation.


It is part of the postmodern condition, perhaps, that all the ideas of the past can be conjured up again, to sit alongside one another. Ideas that were dealt a deathblow 100 years ago or more now return as ghosts, called back not by their own virtues but by the ideological lack in the present



Perhaps the biggest trouble with consumption is that we really are consumed by it - we can't see beyond it, but can only push it away in disgust.

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