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i think the trick is not to maintain people at a level of ignorance (if you like) but rather to persuade them to maintain themselves at that level of ignorance. it's much more cost-effective. it's about the information flows you choose to access and the skill sets you develop for interpreting them, and its about what constitutes the given and what a variable. for neo-colonial forms of control, it's best to have continual motion at the level of contents coupled with a sense that everything about the existing order is simply given in advance, not in play...in the way that the continuous alteration of consumer goods is an implicit argument for the legitimacy of the system that enables that continuous alteration, the system that's a condition of possibility for the alteration that tends to vanish because of what it enables.
like that.
that way people can think and think and think in circles circles circles and pretend they're free even. way more efficient than direct domination because people like this neo-colonial form. they don't even see it.
look around.
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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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