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Camouflage (and Art)

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Dazzle and Obfuscation

Dazzle is a form of camouflage that pretends depth, but actually flattens the entire shape out. obfuscation is inflationary and disingenuous, which turns it into camo. The frilled lizard looks like he's kind of put on on a Elizabethan collar or something when he gets worked up; perhaps this is just to scare off the plebes. So anyway, those are the three types of camouflage. Now in politics, if we turn and look at somebody like Trump, while he definitely dazzles like any good reality television disaster should, he also spins and wags a dog. And think of these kinds of things as relatively harmless. What they actually do in their appearing

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