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what exactly is prophecy in the article?
any statement made in the future tense, any prognostication---and these based on anything at all, since from the bizarre-o viewpoint of the article's authors, what matters is the form of statement (future tense, x will do 1, y will not do 2...) and not the data that may or may not have been involved in shaping such statements--so you erase any plausible reference to informational base because you've transposed perfectly ordinary sentences into this realm of "prophecy" and by doing that you (the authors of the article) render all of them functionally equivalent.....so it follows that the nonsense concerning iraq as a "potential terrorist threat" pushed by the bush people gets equated with biblical/talmudic/koranic prophecies get equated with winston churchill or harry truman
anyway, if you're going to arbitrarily collapse statements made by any number of figures, interchangeable because they can all equally be read about, then why not generate scenarios that involve a manifold of possible narratives that obtain at each moment, one of which comes to be in force because it is chosen, the others remaining metaphysical because they were not...
this manifold set-up puts the Leader in a position of the Demiurge, the one who through his actions integrates the maximum and the minimum--that is who makes selections from within the manifold of possibilities and so mediates between the world of Forms (the manifold) and this mortal coil.
and if you're going to do those things, then why not use the article as a pretext for placing the bush people's various claims made to hawk their idiotic war in iraq on par with any number of other, formally equalivalent such statements.
and this is non-partisan how exactly?
in the blinkered little world of the authors, we should be grateful for the iraq debacle because had it not happened, maybe "we" woulda been attacked again. by who? no matter. on what basis is that claim made?
none.
but if there's no basis for it, then why is it made?
because of the notion of the manifold, because within that hypothetical space, it's possible. and so is everything else.
so where does this get us?
nowhere.
it is always possible to set up some grand metaphysical schema and run basic operations which exploit its characteristics.
if you are a religious person, perhaps this move makes some sense or at least has an aesthetic appeal.
if you aren't, however, there's no there there.
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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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