Dave Eggers -- What is the What

[purplespatula]

I've had a really hard time understanding the Sudan conflict, and I don't think it's due to a lack of effort on my part. Media coverage is sporadic and often betrays biases and the issues themselves are muddled by too many groups with too many competing interests. Reading a linear narrative of one Lost Boy's experience is enlightening, if painful

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[fotoplasma]

There's absolutely a difference between the two explanations. I imagine that people who are benefiting from "politics as usual" pretty much made up the high-degree-of-trust argument in order to attempt to debunk the thought that there are huge systemic and institutional problems with American government and politics. Generalized opinion, but I think it's backed up pretty well in our context.

I said it in a really retarded way, and I don't think I was really clear even through my inability to express myself in writing, but this, I think, is a better way of saying what I meant: Since globalization (increased ease of transportation and communication, mostly) really took hold, damn near everyone has some sort of economic interest in pretty much every other region in the world, so it's pretty much impossible for anything to be perfectly isolated, if it's on any kind of scale that people would actually notice internationally.

Mmm, I think I just really proved to myself that I want to be a political science major. I was already really sure, but the nails are in the coffin now.

PS Hi. :D