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Warpy

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Tue Apr-24-07 10:05 AM
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16. Americans don't quite trust each other

certainly not outside their small circle of family and friends, and most especially in the better off suburbs.

Why should we? We're under tremendous economic stress, fed a steady diet of crime and punishment with the occasional reality show showing people to be cruel and manipulative, at best. It's a rough world out there (we think), so we retreat behind a wall of silence and try to interact with it as little as possible.

It almost seems like we're developing a cultural cabin fever, isolated and with little social contact, starved for the thing we most fear: human interaction.

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