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not only that, mcgeedo, but you miss the point i was making almost entirely.
the centrality of petit bourgeois resentment in all this "moral" talk about markets and capitalism is kinda creepy.
set outside your frame and look at it.
i don't have any of the affective investments that you seem to in that way of thinking, so i just read sentences and try to figure out what is happening in them.
this discouse of the "social parasite" leads to the "what the fuck" response.
then it goes past that.
so i stand by what i said concerning the resonances of it.
but it's strange nonetheless to read this stuff from people whom i do not imagine to be fascist, and who probably do not see the linkages unless they're pointed out (and who probably stop reading at the word "fascist" in any event--but there's nothing to be done about that, as it is what it is historically)
what i don't know about is the relation that holds between the "pure" market fantasy and the discourse of "social parasites" or its equivalent, if one needs the other.
that'd be a problem, if one needed the other to operate.
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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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