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       Probably one of the most ridiculous pursuits of the modern American conservative movement is the attempting of the suppression of pronouns. Yes, pronouns!      First, let's define a pronoun. According to dictionary.com, a pronoun is: "any member of a small class of words found in many languages that are used as replacements or substitutes for nouns and noun phrases, and that have very general reference, as  I, you, he, this, it, who, what.  Pronouns are sometimes formally distinguished from nouns, as in English by the existence of special objective forms, as  him  for  he  or  me  for  I,  and by nonoccurrence with an article or adjective."      In other words, it is word that can replace a name. For example, one can say "Don is a good driver." You can replace "Don" with "He", in which case you would say "He is a good driver." "He" being a pronoun replacing ""Don".     ...

 FUTURE SHOCK: THE FOURTH WAVE. As a child, I was encouraged to read. It started with comic books. Mostly, it was superheroes and Archie comics. My parents were avid newspaper readers. I enjoyed reading the sports page. Soon my favorite thing was looking at the statistics of players and teams and learning not only what the numbers were about, but learning how they arrived at those numbers. Soon "PCT .500" went from being something incoherent and meaningless to meaning that a team had won half of their games. At about 13, I graduated from comics to novels and then non-fiction. That's when I came across a book called "FUTURE SHOCK". Being a young teen busy with the business of being a young teen, I added the narrative to my knowledge base and sequestered it to a corner if my mind. Recent events in our society have caused the memories of that book to resurface. So I read some articles on that book and found out that the book is part of a series of books on change a...