AtDDtA1: Permanent Siege

[David Casseres]

You bet.  The groundwork for this was carefully laid out in Mason & Dixon.

On 1/26/07, Mark Smith <masmith at nmc.edu> wrote:
>
> Descartes, yes, but also I am struck by the phrase "The Great Bovine
> City", and think that the phrase applies equally well to the non-bovine
> masses who inhabit the city, as in "the great unwashed bovine masses," i.e.
> us.  The "unshaped freedom" we once enjoyed has been channelled into the
> "straight lines and right angles" of control. It's a "progressive reduction
> of choices" due to "the relentless degradation of civility."  It works on so
> many levels.
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