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welcome to the machiavellian world of political theater.
motive does not matter if the appearance generated by an action is bad enough.
this is one of those situations where both levels come with compelling arguments---i can entirely accept yours and still maintain mine.
one does not exclude the other.
this is why it's a machiavellian world of political theater--to deal with it, machiavelli counselled that you, as prince, need to in a sense stand outside yourself and think out appearances as a necessary element of strategy, as necessary as motivation.
it isn't easy to do, and most folk would fall down in such a situation.
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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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