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the interpretive problem that we're running across with this, charlatan, is whether co-ordination of message by the pentagon is different from private sector pr: personally, i think it is, simply because when the state acts--including by proxy/at an arm's length--it makes the situation it acts upon political.
that's why i thought it appropriate to link this story to wider questions of information and opinion management as a political question, and to link this to the sad state that of american "democracy."
so to my mind, this is not a particularly overwhelming or even surprising development (the ny times story etc.)--it's more indicative of a broader pattern of political management.
the problem for systems of ideological co-ordination systems comes when their function as ideological co-ordination systems emerges. that's why this is interesting, in my view.
as is the lack of concern about it.
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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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