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Imaginary Martyrdom

The American Mind

CHAPTER

A New Form of Government

The official definition becomes more important than the reality that is supposed to be affirmed by official definitions. And so rather than just a people duking it over their own interpretations of of events and phenomena, and in words, which is something that's been going on for a long time, may that kind of public, public tussle continue. Ah, this is much different. We've experienced a bit with asor the propaganda of the old style, but this is a much more sweeping and an intimate and invidious form of creating a substitute for reality.

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