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baraka: that amounts to a version of the anxiety theory i was running out earlier, but at least has the advantage of linking it to something vaguely related to the tea party sloganeering---and it would explain, were it a correct interpretation, why the objectives outlined by the organizers seem to be unhinged from reality in the present.
what i think that analysis underplays is the extent to which the teaparty thing is also about an asserting of political/ideological continuity in a space that seems not to allow for it. in this, there'd also be a therapeutic function, but it wouldn't be linked to the slogans in the sense that the slogans would not be about anything but themselves, and wouldn't have to be about anything but themselves---if the continuity idea is correct, simply being able to repeat them would be a way to manage cognitive dissonance in a sense, a world out of phase with the way it is framed for this demographic, whatever it's size.
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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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