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small thinking.
i think obama has moved quickly in some areas to push the bush period into a richly deserved oblivion---but on the economic situation, the unravelling is happening at such speed that it hardly makes sense to snipe at the various shortfalls in the stimulus package: i would think it makes more sense for folk to hope that it has positive effects, at least if keeping your job is a priority.
obama has been dealt a remarkably shitty hand after 30 years of neoliberal incoherence.
it's funny watching folk who still think about the world through the same framework that is responsible for the great unraveling struggle to process it.
what's not funny is that after 30 years of neoliberal ideological hegemony, folk here who are in that position are not the exception. you have the same problem in congress. you have the same problem in the administration.
so i think obama needs to go further to break with the sad old neoliberal legacy and everything it stands for. but it's unreasonable to expect that break to emerge full-blown in less than a month.
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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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