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Phoebe Weaver-Stern's avatar

One of my relatives did a family genealogy and concluded that my family are direct descendants of William the C. Ha! People - it seems - still wish to come from noble linages, with few wishing to make conversation about the many peasants making up the majority of their ancestors.

In the future, will the descendants of Smith, Wesson, and Colt, along with Kalashnikov have bragging rights? (They already may, for all I know.) Absurdities upon absurdities abound for the status conscious. We are all from Africa, with humankind arising approximately 300,000 years ago. Will humans survive for another 300,000 years? Would love to travel back and forth in time. . .

What a wonderful, thoughtful writer Greg is. Thank you for sharing your insights.

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Whitney McKnight's avatar

Ok...your writing, fab, as always. But, given what you quoted of your guest's "insights" I haven't even listened yet, and already I am thinking, Who the fuck is this British jamoke lecturing Americans about the indignities of colonization???? WTAF?

So, forgive me for self-promoting, but today my co-host and I dropped a podcast with our predictions for why Chaz's reign will be short, and how it cosmically serves to tie up the end of the nasty legerdemain of genocide dressed up as free markets, and why royal watching actually can be instructive for a few reasons, including not just Schadenfreude, but an interest in watching genocidal empires collapse.

And now I will fix a cuppa and set my upper lip so I can sit through being told off by John Bull. (Although, if you can make Scaramucci compelling, and you did, then this guy has a prayer.)

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