I can never truly love capitalism, even in high school I was critical of 'false consciousness' before I knew the name for it. I think this was partially because this was when Orange County was commercially growing so fast that values other than egocentric consumerism felt left behind. I would watch in amazement as neoconservative entrepreneurs tore down orange trees for cookie-cutter housing and then return to their church and decry the amoralism of their country at the hands of progressives.
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