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  accepting the end of a Robert Altman movie as a depiction of reality? There's no basis for doing that.
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>		The idea was that the end of this Robert Altman movie presented an image of a part of reality in a stark way, so that it functioned as a good illustration of the point I was trying to make. But re-reading it I see what you mean. In a short essay it takes up a lot of space, and seems less like an illustration of a point than the point itself.
 

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  but—as you have commented yourself—they don't work easily or well at 1,000 words.
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>		Point taken. I wasn't trying to cause discomfort in my readers. To be honest, I was trying to keep the essay interesting. Its hard to tell if what one is trying to do is made impossible by the medium one is working in, or simply because one hasn't done it well enough yet. I'll change tacks.
 * On the substance of your draft as it stands, I have two comments. The theory of the contradiction of self requires a unitary self to be contradicted. I think it's therefore at best
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  political implications. So far, you haven't dealt with that except by ignoring the issue and those who have raised it. \ No newline at end of file
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>		I am not a great researcher, as I'm sure the various drafts of this and other essays have made clear. Research is something that I am gradually learning as I go through law school. I was not aware of Gustave le Bon nor Edward Bernays. Let me read them, and I'll revise this once more. I think there's no doubt that recognizing the irrationality of crowds doesn't naturally lead to democracy. But what I am trying to think through is some way that we can recognize that groups are irrational without becoming PR people and propagandists. I'm sure that this is not a novel idea.

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