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while i personally think that patriotism is a kind of mental disorder for the most part, the result of this is that i don't typically bother with the term. because that's the case, i can't imagine having ever said anything about anyone's "patriotism" in relation to these goofy tea parties. if you want to play this way, it is better than people are engaged enough to go out on the streets--or stand like docile citizens in the appropriately cordoned off "free-speech" area--than not. but the closer you get to having to revert to that as an explanation for what you're doing--in other words the closer you get to being out in the street just because, well, you're snippy but can't quite put your finger on why, or what it means, or what you would prefer to see happening otherwise, you're just snippy dammit--the weaker the action tends to be.
just saying.
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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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