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i dont see why you woudl need to assume that the population that might go along with a more explicitly authoritarian form of govt would have to be stupid or uneducated--it woudl seem to me that a slide into a more authoritarian political ideology would be easy to accomplish if you introduced it across television, did ot gradually, and were internally consistent--for example. everything would be determined by the event(s) you used as a pretext/occaison and the signifiers you mobilized in reaction to that pretext.
that said, it shoudl be obvious that i would see tv (for one) as a fundamental element in installing such a regime and maintaining its "legitimacy"--such as it would be. if that is the case, then it also follows that i still do not see the division state/media that underpins much of the above.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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