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Could you sum up a classic in six words? Members of Salon's community, Table Talk, take a crack at it this week.
  • Six Degrees of Integration

    Tell it like it is, please. Reduce me, just don't seduce me. If this thing works, we win. Western civilization is literature plus redactductibility. Out of Africa, into White House. It loses ourselves, it finds market. Makes no sense, sufferance, sudden relevance.

    Of all the games to play with lit., "headlining" sums up our mutual and irreversible predicament: It's all just opinion now.

    But moderated neurotically by cultural bias, personal choice, nouveau novelty a la pop iconography, Salon filter or others', economic experience, instinctive prejudice and knowledge-based lies, distortions and ultimately, discrimination - we live.

    Socrates was shit. Plato rebelled a bit in "The Republic." In the entertainment franchise that is western cibibleization, right meets wrong, not democracy or literary expression. Reduce it to instant code, pollywogs. It's fun to rant, Kant.