From "Ballad of a Thin Man" by BoB Dylan
You walk into the room
With your pencil in your hand
You see somebody naked
And you say, "Who is that man?"
You try so hard
But you don't understand
Just what you'll say
When you get home
Because something is happening here
But you don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones
At the heart of the language of division is a world-view: Us vs. Them. Thus, the language only represents the vision; it is this vision, of “how the world is and works, ” and of our role in it, that determines how we think, and so, how we act.
In this way, Hillary Clinton naturally divides when she speaks, for she divides in her thoughts. She thinks, she perceives, she speaks, and she acts out of a sense of an inherent “otherness”, a sense that there is a line of demarcation between and within countries, peoples, parties, races, regions. Seeing and thinking division she cannot help but to act “divisively.”
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