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but there is no operative distinction between information and ideology for american conservatives of the bush administration's ilk.
this form of conservatism has nothing to do with that you can read in "the economist" for example--it is not about providing information as the basis for informed policy choices (or anything else) so much as it is about controlling the parameters of debate itself.
american conservative approaches to information are explicitly authoritarian--they are about disabling debate across different viewpoints.
when you translate this politics of information into policy formation, the results can't help but be irrational.
when you compound that by attempting to filter information flows themselves so that their contents square with your ideology, you multiply the irrationality.
you can see the consequences of this all over the record of the bush administration.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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