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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 14, 2017, at 9:37 PM, simon <<a href="mailto:swht@clear.net.nz" class="">swht@clear.net.nz</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------
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Dear <<empyreans>>,<br class="">
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Outside of (reacting with moral disgust or nausea) a reactive
opposition, what can be done to form and inform an active
(political) nonopposition to political powers which claim the right
to be considered nonpolitical? and which in so claiming are
claimants to a constituency of the politically exhausted (the Left)?<br class="">
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Nietzsche had it that god died of pity; do we now try and raise her
with disgust?<br class="">
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A journalist commented on the Trumpulist derogation of news media
that it is part of a general strategy of delegitimation: unlike
Europe, the US has no experience of the fabrication of popular
truths to support political regimes. <br class="">
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Too readily to accept we live in a posttruth world is to accept also
that the delegitimation of news media is to some degree justified,
that they have justified this to some degree <i class="">themselves</i>--and
even doing so in the smallest degree, because of pluralist leanings,
sociohistoricocultural relativism, or economic realism, is a
quiescence, if not acquiescence. In other words, Trumpulist
declarations of the falsity of fake news, even if they are not
believed, serve just as well, since they raise it as plausibly
possible: it is not us lying to you, but the others, the ones
cynically declaring for truth, who are the true liars. After all,
we, the winners, have nothing to gain, have nothing more to prove
and have to prove nothing more: the burden of proof is with the
losers and the liars in the media. And after all, Trump has no need
for them--he has his <i class="">own </i>media.<br class="">
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Best,<br class="">
Simon<br class="">
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