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ace--you cannot be serious.
the arguments have been pretty straightforward---companies like cisco have assumed and benefitted from infrastructures that would not exist were it not for state funding.
if you want to make this over into a more general propostion, it'd be that neoliberals like yourself have no coherent sense of history, and so conflate the results of the past, of past actions--in this case of extensive and sustained state funding for mixed public/private sector research, the construction of institutional infrastructure, the fashioning of political power in ways that was able to sustain such funding and redirect it to other ends over time--neoliberals conflate the results of history with phenomena like rocks. neoliberals cannot address questions of infrastructure, public goods, or much of anything else coherently because they cannot deal with the past. they prefer to pretend it isn't a factor. and in the process, they simplify their way out of coherence.
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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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