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MY FOCUS

BOUNDARIES is the key theme.  "How far to go."

1.  Originally Scots/Irish immigrants who were raised agricultural and becoming urban industrial revolution

2.  Child's arrogance carried to academia

3.  Blackfeet Rez in several kinds and their whites

4.  Dog catching in Portland

5.  A denomination for a certain sociology in several places

6.  Portland in a time of inspection

7.  Irrigation town with computers

8.  A world within: desire, safety, presentation, cell code

So what does it mean?
What does it feel like?
What happens when you cross?
Does anyone come along?
What if there were no borders?
Border filters
Profit making borders.

5 negative qualities that come from our genome.

Inability to perceive others — one point of view
High and quick anger
Conflating categories into all one thing and not allowing change
Binary thinking — all black and white

Competition — safety equals dominance

6 "TYPES" OF MINDS A LA CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA PLUS ONE

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