you have to be pretty bloody naieve to characterize problems with the basic terms you use to understand the world as "semantics" in way that that implies definitions do not matter
for example: "democracy"--which the americans do not have--is "compatable" with "our economic system"--the statement means nothing. a prime example of the pseudo-analysis that floats out from the right---pseudo-analysis that it is not about understanding, but rather about cheerleading---as if the current order is so fragile that only an endless, limitless circle jerk can maintain a sense of plausibility.
maybe it is.
either way, i am tired of this.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
Last edited by roachboy; 02-25-2005 at 10:40 AM..
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