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The manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about.

Howard Rheingold

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Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
Essayist
Literary Critic
Sociologist
Writer
Phoenix
Arizona
Packaging
Manufacturing
Politics
Experience
America
Homogeneous

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