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i thought the reagan funeral was vulgar and endless and amounted to a long free commercial for the right.
and it was a carefully planned free commercial.
i do not understand how any therapeutic function is possible from such a vulgar and endless event.
i do not understand how americans come to identify a democracy-lite with the figure of a Leader.
j.g. ballard is right: in a television age, america has come to be a kind of super-monarchy that legitimates itself with periodic rituals of pseudo-rotation (elections after which factions of the ruling class switch positions).
the best expose of ballard's position is in the re-search edition of "atrocity exhibition"---i highly recommend it.
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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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