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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica

Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.

Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors


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7.3.02

Lawrence Rickels interview conflicts that were supremely efficiently run, while they were happening in real time at the level of psychological warfare, which is of course the level of group psychology. The Gulf War while it was happening was America's most successful war group psychologically-speaking. Back then, the Nazis were way better at it than we ever were. Only now have we caught up with the Nazis and even the mounting and the launching of the Patriot System, symbolically speaking I think, was our first successful attempt at out-maneuvering Nazi control of the airwaves, whether it be the rockets or other forms of psychological warfare

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