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There are two topics i was preparing for posts: One was a discussion of how the Bush economic plan looks a lot like Reagan-style supply-side economics and the potential effects of this kind of economic policy now vs. then, and last week was Reagan's birthday, and i found this Reagan quote, which isn't related to the economy, but which seems relevant to our times, and Two, the style and content of the documentary Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky In Our Times, which i saw Sunday at the Music Box, and that it isn't as good a film as Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky And The Media, and that i have some concerns that the people who fill those lecture halls to see Noam are just Chomsky "cultists" who attend in their square framed glasses and blue oxford shirts to bob their heads in assention to what they already believe to be true. But after watching the film, and sketching some notes on the economy, i began to think that neither of these rather long-winded topics had much appeal to the blog reader's palate. Who looks to a blog to find some conjecture about the possibillity of the collapse of global consumer demand, i asked myself.
Have you ever placed a cd in a store where it didn't belong? Intentionally in order to communicate abstractly and anonymously with other customers? On my way back from Power and Terror i stopped at Borders on State St. and encountered a Jay-Z album misplaced among a rack of Charles Mingus cd's. This was not at all apropriate. I myself have on occasion placed an unsung artist of note in a more conspicuous place as if to say to passers by, "you should pay attention to this." While this in itself may be a pretentious activity i take the precaution of putting a favored artist with another who is not altogether dissimilar, thus subtlely informing the musical searching experience of the tabula rasa consumer. I would never so blatantly cross platforms, it's too jarring for most people. I'm sure it was a careless accident.
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