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People Live Longer Today Than They Ever Have. They Live Happier Lives, Have More Knowledge, More Information. All This Is The Result Of Communications Technology. How Is Any Of That Bad?

The Most Wounding Insult To An Educated Russian Was To Be Called Nekulturny-uncultured-yet The Same Men Who Sat In The Gilt Boxes At The Moscow State Opera Weeping At The End Of A Performance Of Boris Gudunov Could Immediately Turn Around And Order The Execution Or Imprisonment Of A Hundred Men Without Blinking. A Strange People, Made More Strange By Their Political Philosophy.

Speak Your Dialogue Out Loud. If It Sounds Like The Way People Talk, Then Write It Down.

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People, I Am Actually Fairly Smart. Why Has This Not Occurred To Anyone? The Information Is All Out There, If You Go Looking For It, And The Classified Stuff Just Comes From Analyzing The Unclassified Stuff And Connecting The Dots.