Art forms that appeal to modern leftist intellectuals tend to focus on sordidness, defeat and despair, or else they take an orgiastic tone, throwing off rational control as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation and all that was left was to immerse oneself in the sensations of the moment.
(Paragraph 17) The Unabomber Manifesto

Yeah baby das right, you got to feel it, man
Say it, Doric
not dork baby
Doric, ya man that's it
now let's do the nasty, huh? come on, baby
let's highlight one them double dissociations in language, man,
you be patient A, and I'll be B, baby.
You can perform task A, but you have difficulty with task B
and vice versa, huh? Ya baby you with me?
Two functions found in separate areas of the brain
where A is fine, B is impaired
another where B is fine, A impaired.
You feelin' it now, baby, production module,
comprehension module?
Let's whip out one of them sentence
or picture matching systems, baby.
Oh yeah, show me that reversible sentences
are difficult to get, baby,
and illustrate components of comprehension
and production as separable.
Ooh yeah, apply some of that syntax versus semantics.
All slippery ain't ya you lil' lexical
decision failing to dissociate between open and closed
class words.
Sugar, my word retrieval has two components,
specifying meanings, uh huh, an' retrieving sounds.
I know you like it.

You wan' another one baby? You wanna double dissociation
between generation of syntax
and some access of grammatical elements
against retrieval of content words, baby?
Beg for it baby, beg for them content
and function words. It's
there but chemically processed differently
so I can't build on that, baby.
'Cause it'll just wind up in a museum
full of fossilized brain cases
or blown up all out of proportion
like that little picture of Guernica
on my coffee mug.

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