granfalloon

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The social cohesion promoted by paying taxes to and receiving benefit checks from the same government agency as millions of other strangers is spurious, however — an example of the "granfalloon," Kurt Vonnegut's term for

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  • Frank Langella, fellow granfalloon Alpha Chi Rho brother, was truly brilliant, the kind of performance you see (and have opportunity to give) only a couple of times in life. —  Eschaton
  • The social cohesion promoted by paying taxes to and receiving benefit checks from the same government agency as millions of other strangers is spurious, however — an example of the "granfalloon," Kurt Vonnegut's term for —  Claremont.org
 

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