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How to be precise

     kurdish black tea with rose & cardamom from Murî ( rating: 3.6/5)  not usually a fan of astringent black teas but i liked how deep its sapidity still was, righteously balanced with the floral.                                                        Slicing ginger root yesterday urged me to consider why the verb "gingerly" is derived from the plant. What does it mean exactly to take delicate action upon a subject? The online thesaurus provided "precisely" and "accordingly" as its most equitable synonyms, but I can't help but feel dissatisfied with its supposed parallels. To take action gingerly, yes, entails a certain precaution, but not necessarily a causation for accuracy. It means to move small, to move dearly, to take gentle care with the way you have chosen to perform such action, more so for the sake of feeling ...
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Kirn

"Post-socialism has become the mainstream doxa, but I suggest we call it by its real name: "national-liberalism". The latter has not only held the keys to the interpretation of recent history but has also become the hegemonic ideological backbone for the implementation of authoritarian capitalism. Its major coordinates were based on an openly negative modality, which entails a substitution of the prefix "post-" with the prefix "anti-". The real negative starting point for the dominant doxa is based on anti-Yugoslav(ism), anti-Marxism, and anti-socialism/-communism. Needless to say, the transitional discourse, or the "transitology", has taken an openly apologetic stance towards the transition to capitalism with a nationalist face." 

-Gal Kirn, Partisan Ruptures: Self-Management, Market Reform, and the Spectre of Socialist Yugoslavia

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