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I most strenuously object to the contention made by the FTE in the previous edition of this paper that "forgetting is part of the ritual of consumption." It is precisely this kind of pre-fab, pre-digested, pseudo-gramscian, hallucino-paranoiac cockamamieism that foments and retroactively justifies the newspaper's consignment to oblivion. So much "chatter." To seesaw Mr. Zevin's tidy as it is smug assessment of Baudelaire, he is 'right for being wrong.' This post-Benjamin hystericism (what would Adorno say?) bears a striking resemblance to the science fictions spoken by power and is equally deserving of our incredulity. A press written by such a mob of self-inflating hacks was precisely the stock and ply of nineteenth century journalism that for all its romanticized vitality sewed the seeds of catastrophe. The newspaper may be "the talking cure" for the geopolitical, but The Indy would do well not to forget the wisdom of the good book: heal thyself, herr doctor.

Kilroy Penzance B' 53

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