In the 19 late 19 fifties, both china and the us. Were basily engaged in a kind of cold war politics where it was actually really important to be able to intercept or to spread propaganda. So this is where, like the book athinisin chapter six, where, you know, after stanization,. o these swash buckling adventures throughout the revolution period, these individual inventures that we talked about. It's all because of standardization and writing. All who publishes who gets to disseminated the power of language. And so united states, at the time was, our president was eisenhawer. He thought he he had actually ad head, head
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