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The most common criticism of the spread was that it detached policy debate from the real world, that nobody used language the way that these debaters did, save perhaps for auctioneers.
As long as there was language, there was processing;
the deep truths are sedimented in syntax,
the real men—who are themselves in fact perpetual boys, since America is adolescence without end—
nothing is a cliché when you’re living it.)
He kept saying “instrumental reason,” which seemed apt to me because I thought the music of his language was overwhelming its meaning.
