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OH ITS THE THING SHE PARROTED IS IT 

APPARENTLY SOME OF HER COVERS ARE QUITE CLEVER 

SORRY THEY HAVE WOKEN ME WITH SPAM ACTORS OUSIDE THE WINDOW 




THIS IS TRASHEW HAVING AN ORGASM AFTER RAPING ME TO TURIN BRAKES





The Unwinding
by George Packer

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George Packer's new book is about this missing America. Spanning three decades, it's a history of disassemblage, a chronicle of a nation where the "structures that had been in place before your birth collapse like pillars of salt across the vast visible landscape – the farms of the Carolina Piedmont, the factories of the Mahoning Valley, Florida subdivisions, California schools". It's also a threnody, a lamentation about the silence, at least in political circles, around those collapsing structures: "An old city can lose its industrial foundation and two-thirds of its people, while all its mainstays – churches, government, business, charities, unions – fall like building flats in a strong wind, hardly making a sound."


all this giddy fragmentation is further punctuated by so many commercial breaks or mentions of what's coming up after those breaks that it can be hard to tell the difference between reportage and retail. America itself – its landscapes, rhythms, textures – is more invoked than evoked.