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  "thread": {
    "id": 2972,
    "subject": "\"Hour of Trust\" all the hues of neil",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-02-20T15:35:14+00:00",
    "last": "2002-02-20T15:35:14+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0202-187@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-02-20T15:35:14+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) \"Hour of Trust\" all the hues of neil",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "There I was, writing about Nihilism (\"Nile-izm,\" as I pronounce it) and I\nmentioned the helmeted astronaut in passing (probably Neil Armstrong; with\nthat whole thread created or reported by Geoff Cohen that \"Nilammon\" in\nTBOTNS is a corruption of \"Neil Armstrong\"), and it occured to me that,\nyes, nihilism can be pronounced \"Neel-izm,\" and how odd that is.  Peters is\ntrying to research \"where it all began\" and he gets the image of Chesire\nCat/Neil Armstrong--and that is all he gets.\n\nA more important point which has not been articulated (though it may be\nwell known): the corporations of \"Hour of Trust\" are not generic\nmega-corps, say McDonald's or Ford Motor Co, who have somehow acquired the\nPentagon, etc.  The corporations are specifically the military/industrial\ncomplex, the weapons makers, who have amassed enough wealth and power as to\nconsume their socially decadent host, yet they are incapable of fulfilling\ntheir new roles. So they can produce such durable goods as warplanes, for\nexample--not that they have also picked up these war factories for cheap,\nbut rather these war factories have been their cash cows in the 50 years\nafter WW2.\n\n=mantis=\n\n\nSirius Fiction\nbooklets on Gene Wolfe, John Crowley\nNow with UPDATES!\nhttp://www.siriusfiction.com/"
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