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no problem, kma. no need to respond. no need to think about your frame of reference. do as you like. just dont pretend that those who are stuck are those who have tried to raise problems for your "common ground" experiment--it seems to me that it is you who refuse to move--or even think about--the terms that you decide are the center of this "common ground" fabrication.
negociation as a model? negociation presupposes an element of coercion as external parameter. here there really is none of that, except if one chooses to participate in this thread---in which case, the "idea" seems to be to work within a framework that i do not recognize as compelling in order to arrive at some sort of common space with folk i disagree with from top to bottom--you ask of folk who share your political position that they shift a little in order to participate in some well-meaning circle jerk--for others of us, you ask that we trade away everything in order to play with you. and you refuse--still---to acknowledge that you are doing it.
whatever. there are other things to do in the big world. this is a waste of my time.
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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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