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It's almost like declaring everyone born roughly at the same time to be identical, is a desperate attempt to impose conceptual order on an illegible and chaotic universe! Or sumt'n!



Well SOMEBODY had a big bowl of Sartre Flakes™ this morning :P

No, jokes aside-I think that's just as valid and interesting of a response to that sort of a take as any. My generation is pretty vocal about the inherent value of the 'individual'; "we aren't a monolith" etc.

Maybe my knee jerk reaction to the quote above is just a manifestation of that, I'll own it for whatever it is.


Heh - first time I read that, I thought it was Satire Flakes... which also would've worked...




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