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this is a pretty remarkable instance of collective epistemological closure---what makes it so is that there's only an ideological environment that connects these folk who cannot seem to wrap their head round this information or the perspective (in academic disciplinary terms) that it comes from. kinda makes one wonder about the effects of saturation exposure to media environments, doesn't it? and it also prompts a bit of speculation as to the psychological motives behind the fashioning of a politics that functionally denies the existence of the social. because that's what folk here who are all about attacking the sample size etc have in common: the attempt to replace images of a collective space, which is necessary a construct because the collective is simply bigger than the individual in physical/geographical terms, with some mapping of social characteristics onto a version of inner life. whence the blaming of the poor for poverty; it results from some moral or cognitive defect so is an inward matter---if there's a remedy it would come from the immediate context (family, in numerous posts above).
so it appears that an entire segment of the american electorate has for no doubt myriad reasons decided that a politics that erases the idea of a social reality is adequate for thinking about approaches to social problems and the consequences of previous approaches to social problems. it's a bit unnerving, in the way that most self-evisceration is a bit unnerving.
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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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