btw--i just flipped on cnn for the first time in many months...after watching al jazeera's coverage off and on yesterday (until i had to wrest my life back for a while)...and the low level of the coverage is shocking. it's shallowness, it's stupidity--but **especially** the compulsive use of words like "riot" "anarchy" "looting" "fear" and "al qeada"
this is the response of american corporate infotainment to popular uprising---WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN TO OUR STUFF? WHERE ARE THE POLICE? BE AFRAID FOR YOUR STUFF. STAY ON YOUR COUCH IN FRONT OF THE TV WHERE IT'S SAFE. FREEDOM IS THE FREEDOM TO WATCH TV ON YOUR COUCH. DO NOTHING. SCARY SCARY CRIMINALS BAD. PEOPLE WHO DEMAND FREEDOM WANT TO STEAL YOUR SHIT. SCARY FREEDOM BAD. STAY INSIDE WHERE THE COMMERCIALS ARE. SCARY BAD RIOT CHAOS BAD.
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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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