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This is the podcast for the week of May 8th, 2006.

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Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance,

where our journey today will take us from quantum physics to the book of Matthew

and back again because that's how we roll here at the Professional Left podcast

with Drift Glass and Blue

Gal.

Today we're going to take a break from the daily barrage of life or death lies pushed by

fascist and talk about the importance of scale.

Scale.

Not vibes.

Not anecdotes.

Scale.

The thousands of years, the mighty starships tore across the empty wastes of space

and finally dived screaming onto the planet Earth, where, due to a terrible

miscalculation of scale, the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog.

Because one of the things the last decade has taught us over and over again is that if you don't understand scale, you don't

understand propaganda. And if you don't understand propaganda, you're already losing.

And we don't want to lose. So the subject of scale, or rather the conspicuous avoidance of the

subject of scale, glided quietly

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