The Importance of Ethnicity

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I think he was trying to say that it did seem to affect certain ethnic groups less than others and then kind of spun it into some weird theory. But what do you think of the theory? Why would whose agenda is it to spare Chinese people and Ashkenazi Jews? I mean, I don't think that it did. It's obviously the elders of Zion and Chinese scientists working in concert to try to eliminate the blacks and the Mexicans. The Jews basically had to make a deal with the devil. They're like, well, we don't like the China people, but we need them for our science. So let's do it.

The Summer of Cormac McCarthy continues – this time we dive into his one piece of non-fiction, the short essay “The Kekulé Problem.” How does our unconscious mind solve problems that conscious deliberation can’t crack? Why does it often work elliptically, in code, rather than giving us the answer directly in language? Is McCarthy right that the unconscious doesn’t trust language because it’s such a newcomer to the human brain?

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"The Kekulé Problem" by Cormac McCarthy

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