[BITList] can this be true?

[CT's]

in reference to crashing the white house party

"Americans are exhibitionists by nature, and have been so for generations, perhaps as an ongoing, unresolved reaction against the country's original Puritanism, which censured blusterers and showoffs," writes the Daily Beast's Tunku Varadarajan. "This is a large and competitive country, in which the most reliable way to catch the eye, or to rise above the throng is . to catch the eye and rise above the throng. Of course, when an entire throng is trying to rise above itself, an epidemic of free-form vulgarity and solipsism ensues."

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