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here is a quote from a book i am reading that sums up another level of the problem with this "clash of civilizations" foolishness:
"the moral attribute of proximity is responsibility; teh moral attribute of social distance is a lack of moral relationship, or heterophobia Responsibility is silenced once proximity is eroded; it may eventually be replaced with resentment once the fellow human subject is transformed into an Other."
--zygmunt `bauman, "modernity and the holocaust"
or: the clash of civilzations argument is a mechanisms for distancing, which is the political correlate of making individuals easier to kill.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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