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The Currency Of Division

Division is currency

Past and present

Without it not the mechanics

Of everything we know


And in so much

The infelicities of beggars

In want of something besides

But not knowing what

That isn’t depressed

By the currency of division

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Frank J. Marr
Frank J. Marr
6 days ago

Reminds me of a great Chomsky quote:


“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum — even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.”


https://chomsky.info/commongood01/

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