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i dont see any basis for disagreeing with this assessment.
the only thing that surprises me is that the columnist felt it necessary to route this "revelation" through the heartwarming story.
you can reach the same conclusion by thinking about how the chirsitan fundamentalist elements in bush's thinking intertwine with the discourse he espouses.
you can reach the same conclusion by thinking about the almost total lack of a descriptive dimension, or any real historical sense, in contemporary conservative discourse in general.
you can reach the same conclusion by juxtaposing bush's version of nationalism with a more comprehensive view of globalizing capitalism--there seems to be an inverse relation between the extent to which the latter will defunctionalize the nation-state and the insistence in conservative discourse on the nation as endowed with an eternal essence.
it seems obvious.
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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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