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otto--it's easier than that.
just read more broadly.
for what it's worth, the most important single experience i had with the american media shell came at the start of the first gulf war, when i happened to land in paris. french tv coverage was more removed--they had retired generals standing in front of 3-d maps of kuwait holding croupiers and moving little plastic tanks around the map as they explained tactics. at some point, a live feed of cnn became available, so that just by being there i could switch in and out of a media context that was quite different when i had been in the states just a few days previously. i am not sure i can explain to you how strange this experience was, being able to turn american coverage on and off, being in a quite different media environment and so relativizing what the american context was simply by virtue of not being in a space that was structured by and around it.
i think that experience changed many things.
i dont write this to convince you of anything, but more to explain my relation to what you sometimes write.
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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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