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no-one wants to talk about unemployment really. it's not a feel-good meme.
no-one wants to talk about the explanations for that unemployment, which have alot to do with the restructuring of medium-to-large scale production, it's fragmentation and exportation----all of which happened while the corporate opinion management apparatus focused attention on capital to the exclusion of everything else.
because no-one wants to talk about any of that, no-one wants to think about what coherent policy might look like in a situation like this. so there's no coherent way to address unemployment.
there's only the same tired, empty neo-liberal bullshit.
the marketing coup that the right has pulled off over the last two years in getting media penetration and traction for a narrative that is entirely counter-factual is a bit startling. but maybe this is what fading empires do in a television age. hard to know. last empires that collapsed were radio affairs.
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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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