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Friends, lizards, anti-tax crusaders, lend me your eyes

‘A gloss is a total system of perception and language.’ -Talcott Parsons
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The funny thing about our perceptions is that they can take on a life of their own, reinforcing themselves and blocking out facts that aren’t conducive to their maintenance. We sometimes call widely held misperceptions “urban myths” and they can be incredibly difficult to dispel. Americans tightly, uniformly and …