Originally Posted by
GotheriK
To deny the obvious only goes to show ignorance.
Yeah, maybe I've just been living "outside of reality" for my whole life.

Perhaps reality lies somewhere in the middle, because this isn't obvious and their is no denial going on here. I grew up in NYC, Brooklyn to be specific and your experience is completely different than mine. But that is so much the center of egocentric/ethnocentric thought to believe that their experience is obvious and hence is the only experience with validity.
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