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The end of Pax Americana?
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The end of Pax Americana?
- TB -
9/7/2011 3:08:33 PM
Re: The end of Pax Americana?
- BuckGalaxy -
9/8/2011 1:42:43 AM
Re: The end of Pax Americana?
- ER -
9/8/2011 2:31:17 AM
Re: The end of Pax Americana?
- ER -
9/7/2011 3:34:15 PM
It's all very 19th century
- Robert -
9/7/2011 9:24:47 PM
Re: It's all very 19th century
- Eri -
9/8/2011 1:26:52 AM
For some of us, though, the leaps are a little too mind-boggling.
- Robert -
9/8/2011 7:20:40 PM
Re: For some of us, though, the leaps are a little too mind-boggling.
- TB -
9/8/2011 7:26:13 PM
Well, yeah, but young people are by definition immune to future shock, having experienced little of the future so far.
- Robert -
9/9/2011 2:28:33 AM
Re: Well, yeah, but young people are by definition immune to future shock, having experienced little of the future so far.
- TB -
9/9/2011 4:09:53 AM
Re: It's all very 19th century
- ER -
9/7/2011 11:30:02 PM
History will repeat itself with the Internet?
- Robert -
9/8/2011 12:18:33 AM
Re: History will repeat itself with the Internet?
- ER -
9/8/2011 2:04:24 AM
One man's "propagandists and political agitators" are another man's "empowered citizenry".
- Robert -
9/8/2011 7:16:43 PM
Re: One man's "propagandists and political agitators" are another man's "empowered citizenry".
- ER -
9/8/2011 9:09:28 PM
Re: One man's "propagandists and political agitators" are another man's "empowered citizenry".
- TB -
9/8/2011 9:46:48 PM
Re: One man's "propagandists and political agitators" are another man's "empowered citizenry".
- ER -
9/9/2011 1:34:15 AM
Re: One man's "propagandists and political agitators" are another man's "empowered citizenry".
- Robert -
9/9/2011 2:39:56 AM
Re: One man's "propagandists and political agitators" are another man's "empowered citizenry".
- ER -
9/10/2011 2:38:26 PM
I'm sorry, ER.
- Robert -
9/10/2011 6:12:29 PM
Re: History will repeat itself with the Internet?
- TB -
9/8/2011 2:18:53 AM
Re: History will repeat itself with the Internet?
- TB -
9/8/2011 12:51:13 AM
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