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"I spend a lot of time thinking about"

I tried to fill out an answer to this prompt  and the whole thing got a bit long.  I am stopping for the moment so this is what I have (with some revisions and deletions)

I spend a lot of time thinking about ...
outer space, the laws of thermodynamics, The Supreme Court, how much "god" cares about things I care about, The Dalai Lama, poems and stories, the empty space in atoms, koala bears, elephants with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, The North Pacific Gyre (covered with plastic)

bright things in front of me, dumb signs, positive affirmations, The Tao, records management, The Fourteenth Amendment, words and their meaning, authority, Fluxus, Yoko Ono, Wayne Coyne, Communism in Eastern Europe, Vaclav Havel, Richard Feynman, anarcho-syndicalism,

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power and Foucault's conception of it, how our government is so damned corrupt, how the Republicans, who HATED the federal government and wanted to destroy it, had a majority in the House of Representatives from 1994-2006, but managed to make the government WAY HUGER, giving it insane NEW powers, how to engage when I realized that no one was ever going to ask me what *specific* radical economic, social, political philosophies was the absolute best, so I maybe shouldn't spend SO much time trying to figure it out.

how I might stop paying attention to my thoughts for a time, what people with autism and asperger's syndrome did before we pathologized their lives, ways to appreciate the mind-boggling amazingness that is life, appreciating in those ways, what the vanity license plate on the car in front of me is supposed to mean, how anger ties us to suffering,

hating various things: The 1996 Telecommunication Act, Alexander Hamilton, Autism Speaks, Antonin Scalia, Thomas L Friedman, Robert McNamara, Oliver Cromwell, etc.,

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