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I'm watching a six part PBS documentary on the history of New York by Ric Burns. Usually, I love these long, drawn out history DVDs because they make great background sound while I'm doing projects. But this one is getting really annoying really quickly.

Every segment is like six historian writers postulating on New York's New Yorkness without any outside reference whatsoever, like, "He came from somewhere else to start over. He was the quintessential upstart. That's so New York! People come to New York from other places. If you want to be the same person, you stay where you are. If you want to reinvent yourself, you come to New York. New Yorkers are people who come from other places to New York to become New Yorkers in New York."

Why don't you just show six writers jacking off on the Statue of Liberty and get it over with?