only problem with that, powerclown, is that it might cause you to downplay or overlook patterns specific to the states because you would define what you are looking for in irrelevant terms. the states is becoming a kind of soft totalitarian system at the cultural level. if you are looking at that, and thinking in terms of direct domination, you will write off what is in front of you.
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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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