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From: "carr0023@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <carr0023@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 06:08:38 CST
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C o m m e n t a r i e s .6
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The press and media are circus; celebratively public, exhibitionist
and voyeur, a surrogate discourse for crowds; only political, but with-
out political content, thus appropriate complement to the bread of the
market.
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Since Descartes, the revealed word is mathematical. The sacredness
of the individual is thus revealed as that of (s)he who counts and is
counted.
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When birth and death are at last fully rationalized, the ordering
of the anonymous individual will be complete, and the singularity of
life illusive.
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The irony of the conveyance of rights is that it enables the state's
rationalization of the category specified in the conveyance.
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The irony of environmentalism is that it seeks to rationalize itself,
and thus necessarily is transmuted by what it sought to confront.
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The state projects rational order. Thus, in the state, the goal of
education is not to enlighten, but to order and discipline.
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