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i'm amused by your "some animals are more equal than others" line, plan 9.
worked real well on the animal farm.
maybe folk read orwell as an endorsement?
maybe folk dont read orwell----it's possible because exactly the sort of things he ridiculed these days wend their way around conservative ideology, repressive institutions and related spaces that impose the cognitive adjustments required for enthusiastic participation in the class war.
if some animals are simply more equal than others, the ideology that is being defended in the class war is neutral. you defend what is because it is.
no matter that the politics of---say---distribution of wealth or the relation distribution of cultural opportunities (you know those things that work to assure that formal equality in the united states never creeps over to substantive equality)----often produce the social deviance you may be called on to adjust.
no no----you're simply a more equal animal herding around the less equal animals and removing the recalcitrant or deviant. because they should recognize their less equal status when confronted with the more equal. the natural order of things for the less equal is submission.
that's funny.
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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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