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2016 Postmortem

Achilleaze

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1. Left behind

Reply to Gman (Original post)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 10:57 AM

Dec 2016

" After following the motorcycle guys around for months, Thompson concluded that the most striking thing about them was not their hedonism but their “ethic of total retaliation” against a technologically advanced and economically changing America in which they felt they’d been counted out and left behind..."

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