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there's a problem with blanket 1-d cynicism when it comes to infotainment, though--if you follow it to its logical conclusion, you exempt yourself from having to gather and sort through any. it's a thin line between healthy distrust of sources and an attitude that enables you to avoid possibilities of dissonance by limiting your intake. i say this as an experienced cynic. while you'll be hard pressed to know "what's really going on" by way of the streams of infotainment out there in the world, it's still the case that there are better and worse streams, and that it is possible to fashion your own by juxtaposing a range of them rather than accepting what any one of them feeds through itself. this is a possibility that the net opens up.
it's always seemed strange to me that folk (and here i'm not talking about you in particular, ng) transpose their habits onto the net rather than allowing the diversity of information to alter them.
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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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