If We Try to Leave, Will They Let Us Go?
And if you are one of them…will YOU?
Us and them.
I love the song, but hate the phrase. I don’t particularly enjoy dividing people up into binary categories. Nonetheless, doing so does serve a valuable purpose—categorization and pattern recognition help us understand the world.
For the purposes of this article, then, allow me to define the US and the THEM.
Us
WE…are somewhere on the journey fr…
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