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yeah--things get all christian/heideggery from there if you want to pull on the thread a bit: war, state of emergency become originary in a sense, a kind of groundless vortex from which the People shine forth and all that. so it's a way of "accounting for" history while at the same time evacuating the actual history part (you know, things that are done by actual people in particular contexts using particular frameworks that have implications which could, in principle, be altered)...
kinda the idea that only a god creates, so nations have always been there and war becomes a blood ritual of renewal--but because this is america, its largely mediated by television, so happens in the Big Elsewhere. because everyplace is the Big Elsewhere. except the living rooms where people watch the world happen inside a rectangle.
you know.
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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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