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you know, this populist thing is getting out of hand in conservativeland.
all this "anti-intellectual" horseshit amounts to is a new bizarre form of officially sanctioned and directed bigotry from the right---now it's some amorphous "intellectual elite that fills the function of Persecuting Alien against which the Wholesome Right, now new and improved with a Monopoly on Practical Understanding, can construct itself. and so it follows that critical thinking is a characteristic of the Enemy and Competence a Problem--unless it is expressed in the form of whatever the conservative parameters of the moment say it should be.
what's hilarious is that the folk pulling the strings behind the conservative media apparatus, the folk organizing this turn to poujadiste-style petit bourgeois resentment as political mode of living, probably graduated from the same schools as the Evil Others did. and many of the Captains of Industry at whose feet the right grovels so long as they are republicans might well have gone to these same schools as well. legacies, dontcha know, that constant bulkward against intellectual consistency in these Bad Bad Schools.
but hey, no matter, what fun is thinking about that stuff when there's all the thrills and chills of good old Grouphate to be had...
but you'd think that after 8 years of trafficking in this idiot demonization as a way of generating a sense of belonging for the reactionary set that the mechanism would be threadbare and its functions transparent.
amazing.
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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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