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Discord in 2024

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There’s something very broken about the American spirit today. They say that life imitates art, and judging from the growing popularity of dystopian collapse-of-the-U.S. movies coming out, it truly gives me pause. Some people, I believe, FEAR such things. Other people WANT such things. And others, and I include myself among them, are ANTICIPATING such things. This was already on my mind having viewed Leave The World Behind last week, but when I saw this trailer (below) of a big new movie, Civil War, coming out this Spring, it just brought the message home.