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Desire and Fate

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Jun 28, 2023
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The phrase “Everyone is special” may be the most radical single utterance of the current cultural convulsion of the Anglosphere. It was actually the title (and refrain) of a song first sung in 2005 in the final episode of “Barney,” a then hugely popular television show whose target audience was small children, that is children who, as was said back in t…

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