I'm going to say: it looks otherworldly because up until "recently" most people didn't try to live in such a bleak place.

They look like a dry ocean bed, because they are...

You are going to have a very bad time when the issues split near 50/50, and your whole theory basically says: F the minorities, they must comply with the majority or else.

The repeated surgeries for her stage image for a start, that's not something I would call a role model for young girls. She also has a problem with being humble (for instance, playing concerts for small audiences at small venues) - which worked out for her, but isn't something everyone could emulate. But: we're all human, and on balance she's a hell of a lot better person than most of us.

Oh, Dolly is a deeply flawed individual, wonderful to the core, but not to be emulated in many ways.

And yet, in all things find balance. There are plenty of times when social pressures should be resisted, even pushed back against, because the social pressures are themselves negative traits.

Having a clear view of (and acting on) what is good and bad is more important than whatever the majority are saying or doing.

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When you cut up mt Augusta into 8 billion souvenir rocks, it will no longer be larger than Uluru...