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the flag fetish set enjoys it when public figures genuflect in their direction.
"see?" they say.
"he's one of us."
in democracy in america, tocqueville noted a quirk amongst the 1830s americans that he met--you had to flatter the country and in their need for flattery, these folk were more demanding than any courtier.
genuflecting is a form of flattery just as most other submissive behaviours are.
what's curious about obama's choice is that it is getting press as if it were meaningful in some way.
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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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