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"I think I need a revolution--one which begins as an idea, continues as a feeling, and grows into a lifestyle. I must learn to notice the ways that our world--everything from Oprah to Burger King to Tony the Tiger--has shaped me, and betrayed me: to notice the ways that this system took my innocent heart and infected it with disillusionment, disappointment, and despair. I need to reject the so called "freedom" that is offered every time I flick on the TV or walk down the cereal aisle in the supermarket.

Together, we must learn to pursue what David Foster Wallace calls "real...