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Ambience - Brian Eno - LUX 1

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wilburs1/01/2013 8:29:58 pm PST

re: #271 HappyWarrior

Yeah. Probably because they actually heard her views on religion and social issues. Today’s conservatives hear that selfishness is a virtue and charity is to be frowned on and they think “Wow the philosopher for me.”

yeah

First and foremost it was the atheism, as at the time Christian Conservatism was being promoted.
Then the anti war stance, and then the general assholery.

there was a pretty good book by a historian at UVA that was published a year or two ago that went into this in some detail