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Mani(fast food) Destiny

December 11, 2008 Leave a comment

Finding people who have never had a hamburger sounds almost as hard as finding unbiased jurors for the second OJ trial

But I guess it’s possible. Just leave it to Burger King:

Mabye somebody better start translating Super Size Me into Inuit.

It’s nice to see they’re taking some heat for this whole thing.

The Incredible Shrinking World

November 10, 2008 Leave a comment

“When people find themselves unable to control the world, they simply shrink the world to the size of their community” –Manuel Castells

DC may not be the best place to see this trend cause just about everybody has consistently leaned to the left, but this guy has some really interesting examples of the political polarization across the country and how it’s getting hard-coded into geography/place and even into the visual landscape.

I feel like another piece to this is our selective media consumption and how the lack of common media outlets may reinforce this segregation trend.

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