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trailpoet.bsky.social
American history professor, Peabody Award-winning writer, secular ecumenical meta-narrator, ultra trail runner, cat lover, secret poet. (And single sapiosexual, too. There's also that....)
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For eight years in DC, '95 to '03, I wrote for the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In January of '96, I had a spectacular sighting of a UAP that shifted my paradigm, but quickly learned the topic was taboo at the AAAS. The ice is finally breaking. thehill.com/homenews/hou...

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A graphic of each House from '49 to '11. The gray represents bipartisanship. Note the 'mitosis' moment at the end of the Cold War and the Contract w/ America. I submit that the red blob is now being (mis)led by a demagogue past the pale of Lockean liberalism and into a clownish authoritarianism.

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Imagine a world in which 8.3 billion well-fed, properly-housed, sustainably-living, peaceful people had nothing else to do with their precious blink of earthly sentience than to make art LIKE THIS. Deep respect to the one who saw this moment coming and captured it for the rest of us. Thank you.

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Here i project myself into the near future, running off to hide as the secular ecumenical meta-narrative gains cultural traction and the university owns and operates the world's first real time, mass participatory non-profit culinary game show, harnessing consumption to feed 'fun-lanthropy' forward.

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