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i read through the linked article and some of the material in support of it--what is interesting is the extent to which the survey dovetails with earlier studies on the resistance to dissonant information that seems characteristic of folk who rely on right discourse to articulate thier sense of being-in-the-world. it is that refusal to accomodate dissonance that is one of the most unsettling aspects of this discourse.
that is why i see the results are something that should be alarming.
i see no equivalent to this discursive space--consertativeland is not the mirror image of the "left"--it is its own, particular unsettling phenomenon. it might function as reassuring to act as though it is somehow isomorphic with another formation, but that seems not to be true empirically.
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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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