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Is "Howard Kurtz" a software program?

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  • Friday, March 2, 2007 08:17 AM

    Besides, these are "totalitarians" not human beings

    The point is that totalitarians ARE human beings. Human beings, human beings that for situational/sociological/psychological/ideological reasons do totalitarian things.

    Recognizing that, pointing that out, raising awareness of that, reducing the situational factors ... that's the only way to avoid it from happening.

    —m.b.f.

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