Ryan Stripling

Teacher extraordinare at Bentonville High School. I love board games, writing, reading, post-modernism, and my family.

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@TashawnaRankin Any source of introspection or questioning of society threatens the status quo, which the govt is desperate to maintain.

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@hyde_kinley I’ve wondered that as well. Perhaps to show another level of degradation—that the spiritual as well as intellectual has faded from society.

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@molliesschoola1 Well, she’s suicidal so I wouldn’t say she’s unfazed. More that she buries her pain in her unconscious. She’s a master of cognitive dissonance #aplac2 #aplac3

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@molliesschoola1 Well, it was her ending 😄

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@White2004Honda1 And remember that this started because people stopped reading on their own. The liberals arts college closed not bc of govt shutdown, but bc of a lack of students #aplac2 #aplac3

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@jnicholey Indeed. We may not have four-walled televisions and parlor families, but we bow before the glowing altars of our screens.

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@3Lactation She isn’t accustomed to agency. She moves as the current pulls, even while sinking beneath its waves. But give it time—let’s see how her character resolves.

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@kucharvic Begone you liberal arts education, you relic of the past! All hail the mighty STEM fields! May we all find our rightful place as cogs in the wheel of production! #aplac2 #aplac3

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@Deerwoo2 And mine was lined by the tall stacks of the library 👊 #librariansson

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@MaddieFaulkne11 It’s almost as if the old refrain of avoiding talking about religion and politics has not yielded a more peaceful society but one that has never learned civil discourse.

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@3Lactation And which, in your view, is the more accurate?

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Beware the stolid unmoving cattle of the majority #aplac2 #aplac3

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@rebeccccca_W Or perhaps both :-). Kafka wrote “a book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.” Literature expands horizons; that is a danger to all regimes that are perpetuated by a slavish conformity to norms. #aplac2 #aplac3

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@Rebecca39263240 @TashawnaRankin ☝️☝️☝️

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“But what would he whisper, what would he tell? What could he say?”
What have they lost in this society, that such natural expressions of intimacy are utterly beyond reach? #aplac2 #aplac3

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“These men whose faces were sunburnt by a thousand real and ten thousand imaginary fires, whose work flushed their cheeks and fevered their eyes.”
What does this say about who we are, this fevered desire to burn? #aplac2 #aplac3

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It was a pleasure to burn #aplac2 #aplac3

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Twitter book club may not have the dankest memes, but it will have an old guy poorly appropriating youthful colloquialisms! #aplac2 #aplac3

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Who’s excited about F451 twitter book club? @kierstenmcdona6 is! Amirite? #aplac2 #aplac3