I use this narrative anecdote to introduce this ethnographic study because it highlights the unifying and cathartic power that the ideology of our "war on terror" has upon Americans, as illuminated within the microcosm of Boston College. ... Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, America has expended significant blood and treasure in a perpetual and, by definition, unwinnable "war on terror.... In addition, we have seen a sharp decline in American prestige internationally, serious erosion of our civil liberties, and we have lived for more than a decade in a state of constant vigil...

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was the guiding rule, and everyone was someone else's prey. ... Sawdust and rat droppings were mixed into the sausage meat and deviled ham that killed about three thousand U.S. soldiers during the Spanish-American war in 1898. ... Following graduation, Sinclair went on to graduate study at Columbia University, where he began writing full-length novels with serious social themes. ... Some of the worst abuses of labor conditions took place in the big cities like New York and Chicago, and it was in Chicago, the cattle and commodity market of the Midwestern United States, that Upton Sincl...

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It appears that the confluence of planetary influences, combined with a rebellious open-minded generation, a range of innovative ideas, new powerful psychedelic chemicals, and increasing social pressures to conform, succeed, and fight an unwinnable war served to spark individually and collectively a far reaching transformation, unlike any seen before." ... We study many of the world's religions and take what makes sense and enhances personal freedom and reject the dogma. ...

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