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Modern Times - Camille Paglia

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The Use of Language as Camouflage

i got a story to tell you that you might like cause i've thought a lot about that use of language. And so here's the story. I think i got this from robert sepul so he was talking about zebras. And zebras, of course, have stripes. And hypothetically, that's associated with camouflage. But it's not a straightforward association, because zebras are black and white,. The lions are camouflage cause they are grass colored, but the bloody zebras is black and white. You can see them, like 15 miles away. So the camouflage is actually against the herd, because a zebra's a herd animal, not an individual

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