i know what it refers to. it's also the case that that referring presupposes a particular economic framework. it repeats the logic of the frame. it's a successful meme like that. you use it and you're already moving into the logic it entails. and it's got that fake-ethical twinge that we all know and love from those lovely folk on the right, for whom ethical language is all important when they're talking about people who aren't themselves.
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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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