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i take account of what comes from the right.
on a few occasions, material i have encountered here has influenced positions---i was pushed toward becoming agnostic on gun control....but then i run into appalling threads (like the riots in pa thread) rooted in fantasies of using weapons to mow down people who disagree with some conservatives and i start to reconsider that shift in my thinking once again.
across a number of conversations, however, i have encountered folk whose presence i quite like, and this has been the treat of being here.
on the other hand:
i am not interested an understanding of the political that reduces it to supporting one or another candidate in this latest round of faction rotation within the oligarchy.
i find the deterioration of debate that seems to accompany the approach of the election to be frustrating.
too often, i find that people who operate from the bush camp refuse to explain the basis for their positions or to subject the premises of their claims to discussion. too often these positions operate as if lather-rinse-repeat was the modus operandi.
i had come to the conclusion that this followed from an inability to do it.
i began to think that perhaps this inability was connected to the nature of the discourse particular to bushworld---the emphasis on Will, etc.
but maybe it is as much a function of messageboard culture.
i'll wait until the election idiocy dies down to decide about that.
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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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