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i read somewhere a pithy statement of something i've been saying for a while now: we cannot expect a crisis engendered by neo-liberalism to be solved using neo-liberal tools.
and we're watching that happen. the problem goes beyond the fact that not only are there too many republicans and, worse, that the republicans now find themselves squeezed between the sociopaths in the tea party and the evil grover norquist. the problem is that to maintain a centrist discourse is to stay within the cognitive and policy boxes particular to neo-liberal thinking. this thinking is **the** cause of the current fiasco. and from that viewpoint there is no way out. the right isn't even focused on presenting an coherent pathway forward---all they're about is damaging obama. it is a scortched earth policy---and were the corporate press in the united states not entirely and abjectly complicit in maintaining the idiotic lingua franca of neo-liberalism themselves (having committed to it early on in the game, shifting away could undermine their already quite precarious positions by raising questions about the supposedly neutral language of reporting) and so trapped in a position of taking the right far more seriously than they should be taken, the republicans could never get away with it.
la pensée unique it's called. intellectual monocropping. it's mutant chickens are coming home to roost.
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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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