An article by Rafael Sorin in the French newspaper Le Monde, from February 25, 1972, about untamed literature, Cut Up or Shut Up, “the ‘Cut-Up’ movement” and Nova Broadcast Press, points out that “by blurring the line between press rumors and advertising, the ‘cut-up’ works against the language of totalitarian government, whose ‘magical, authoritarian, ritual elements’ Marcuse has described in One-Dimensional Man.” It drew this untamed response 54 years later from S/U’s staff of thousands.
OFFICIAL PLEDGE
The Pledge of Allgiancee is codified under federal law in U.S.C. Title 4, which specifies the exact wording and the proper way to deliver it (standing facing the flag with the right hand over the heart):
I pledge
allegiance
to the flag
of the United
States of America,
and to
the Republic
for which
it stands,
one nation
under God,
with liberty
and justice
for all.
° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° °
UNTAMED PLEDGE
I will
not pledge
allegiance to
this peculiar
zone of mirth,
the misbegotten
flag of Trumpistan
and to the corruption
for which it stands,
one nation’s
twisted afterbirth
with stupidity
and avarice
for all.
Staff of Thousands
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