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television is a corporate dictatorship wedged into the center of american politics, a medium predicated upon total submission within which the illusion of interactivity unfolds across streams of advertisements.
so you go from having your world framed for you to having your world framed around sequences of commodity alternatives (your space of "choice") back to having your world framed for you.
and you submit.
no wonder authoritarian politics is not in itself a problem.
you are used to it.
you experience it every day.
you like it: it is entertainment.
sorry about the rant-like nature of the previous post, sort of.
i haven't watched television for quite a while--since 9/12/2001 actually--but did for the past few days, paying particular attention to the "coverage" of the shift in congressional composition. i was shuttling back and forth between talking to documentary film-makers and doing field work in the american dreamworld.
it was quite a jolt.
i am still processing it.
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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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