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ACFM Trip 23: War

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The Use of War as a Metaphor in Political Discourse

Theory of collectivity proposed by people at lecloan mof is that you only get a sense of a collective group, a collective agent, when there's an enemy to fight. When it's itt it's basically a sort of default option for ruling elite that are in trouble and need to persuade people to unite behind them. They have to identify an external threat, an external enemy. And like, ye, it can be abstract. So, the sixties, we've lived through this sequence in the english speaking world of wars on abstractions. Lat the war on terror seems thing to think about. This is the the erac war. But they have to justify as part

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