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the Way of Humans: a Guide for Visitors to Earth
a Hypo-minimally Critical Review

This amply elaborated guide for visitors, merchants, and migrants to Earth projects an ethno-mental and socio-psychological emphasis pattern on the traditions, values, attitudes and deportment of homo sapiens. Structured in phases that severally treat almost all facets of Terran experience, the script illuminates the reader-audience with its perceptivity and truthfulness. Although it doesn't entirely avoid simplistic formulaic classification (and doesn’t seem at all troubled by it), the guide portrays the salutary, the unsound and the offbeat. It explicates the "why" behind human demeanor, etiquette, and conduct.

( --brief review continued-- )

Current Mood: morose

This is like running a story about how the Republicans are going to try to stop Obama's health care plan and illustrating it with a picture of Garrett Augustus Morgan (the inventor of the stoplight) labeled "Other famous African-Americans have had challenges involving stops." Technically true, yes, but not exactly relevant.

The context isn't particularly germane, but if you're really bored and dying of misguided curiosity, here's where it originated.