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Bah, pi. Forgive me if i don't sing your praises. e is more versatile, i is more mysterious, and phi is more fascinating.

"protocols of the elders of aztlan"

First we see ideologues like Pat Buchanan accusing Hispanic immigrants, particularly undocumented immigrants, of undermining and threatening to destroy American culture and civilization.

And we have a federal government proclaiming that non-citizens can be detained indefinitely with no legal recourse.  At present there are still avenues of recourse for INS detainees, but how long will it be before immigration enforcers start taking to heart the claim that undocumented immigrants are a 'threat'... particularly as Hispanics more loudly protest the way they are being singled out?

And now we have a federal government that is rounding up Hispanics by the thousands and shipping them to detention camps.

Is anyone else alarmed by this?

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Not that i'm becoming a fan of Daylight Savings Time or anything, but the fact that it is now suddenly still daylight for over an hour after i leave work is doing wonders for my mood.

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In listening to music and reading fiction and stuff, over the last couple of months i've started noticing a subtle kind of pattern.  There's a kind of polarization in much of the fiction, music, and other kinds of creative material we consume, and i don't know how to articulate besides saying that some works speak very subtly from the point of view of domination-approval, while others (usually not so subtly, but sometimes so) assume the point of view of domination-resistance.

By "domination" i mean here not authoritarianism or the aneristic principle, so much as the assertion of will and privilege of one person over another on a direct or even personal level.

The bias is not always obvious, and is not quite the same as "authoritarian vs. anti-authoritarian."  For example, the bias i detected in My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult's music is domination-approval.  In contrast, the bias in Babylon 5, even though it is mostly told from a military point of view, is domination-resistance.

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Leftist bloggers might have potty mouths, but at least we don't repeatedly, again and again and again, call for the violent death of people who disagree with us or point out inconvenient facts. (Thanks to Shakespeare's Sister.)