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this is amazing---so there ae folk here who actually believe that the infotainment that they inhale by way of the major television networks is reliable?
that makes me laugh and laugh.
the article which appeared in the ny times a couple weeks ago that is the center of the thread is not in dispute by anyone--the problem is that for some reason the conservative set here...it's not even that they don't believe the information..they don't care: they **want** to be sold a war in the guise of analysis of that war. they **want** to be manipulated so long as they agree with the premise around which that manipulation is built--so for the conservative set, perhaps this sort of thing is the way in which information should be--no friction, no problems, just the world mirrored back to you as you want to see it. no need to think critically--you know the information is problematic and can rely on some facile sarcasm to accomodate it, all the while avoiding having to think too much about much of anything beyond assent. how nice the world is that correponds to your fantasies...
i think the term for that is infantile, an inability to distinguish between inner and outer.
clearly the problem is host.
at this point, having nothing nice to say at all after this, i will just stop.
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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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