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The context is important:

> Or, of course, if I’m in a more socially conscious liberal arts form of my default setting, I can spend time

There was no applause at the previous example:

> And who are all these people in my way? And look at how repulsive most of them are, and how stupid and cow-like and dead-eyed and nonhuman they seem in the checkout line, or at how annoying and rude it is that people are talking loudly on cell phones in the middle of the line.

It's the "more socially conscious liberal arts" bit, being delivered at a liberal arts commencement ceremony to an audience that gets the joke.



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