Ireland
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As capitalism is predicated on inequality, so all parties in a capitalo-democratic system find they must take at least one step to the right to facilitate a general Law-and-Order Liberalism, which the present writer fears can only give way to a final march to the right, and it will, for many, be final. Recall that even…
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Irish gives us a word, a tricky conjuring thing, to use for this difficult order of phenomenon: the thing that exists only in belief, in play, but for that reason can be said to exist, with all the consequences that follow. Let us use the word: geis. Taboo, prohibition, injunction, spell, vow, curse. It binds, it breaks; forces,…
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If you have heard of the Border, then you must know that there is no Border. People who believe in the Border believe in something that they know does not exist. Those who believe in the Border have been allowed to indulge in a fancy with grotesque consequences for what we might loosely call the real…