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> Jazz, by contrast, The past enables rather than constraints the present: The improvised performance always exceeds the pre-existing musical composition or structure in complexity, nuance and originality: The whole point is to go beyond the phrase... Jazz not only presents to my mind an ideal instance of human relations and interpersonal dynamics, but actually suggests a social ideal: The use of accumulated wealth as a basis for the shared production and enjoyment of life in the present rather than the reproduction and reinforcement of power structures from the past.

> A book that merely reproduces good sense and common sense reproduces the hoariest cliche for thought itself, the tree. The tree is the marvel of stable, hierarchical organization. Lines of descent are always clear... Logic uses trees. Biological species are organized according to trees. Linguistic is fond of trees. Trees reveal the deep structure that lies behind the messiness of reality. Trees are so useful that it is hard to think without them. It is even difficult to conceptualize what thought would be like without trees. What is the opposite of a tree? There is no hierarchy. There are no lines of descent... do not propagate by way of clearly delineated hierarchies, but by underground stems in which any part may send additional shoots upward, downward, or laterally. All that is needed to grow potatoes is burying the discarded skin of a potato. They simply begin again wherever they are. It is always in the middle. It is not predictable. It does not follow a linear pattern of growth and reproduction. The ideal book is a single flat sheet. On this sheet, lines can be drawn that would connect various points in the text. These lines would be new concepts. They wouldn't represent or reproduce anything. They would, by virtue of traversing the plane of the book, create a territory that would spawn other lines, other concepts, other connections.

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Skindred - Destroy the Dancefloor "Come switch the program La la la leng, la la la la leng Co we enter the room you Know we're rougher dan dem Bring it like this no problem and we Knocking dem out like the world champion True we are the winners in the competition" #music

For vs against? What about just being, like, lateral? Seems more fun to me, so far. Probably pisses off those pushing for either or, which makes it all the more funnier View quoted note → View quoted note →

I swear i've had this deja vu before...

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