"Fluoridation: a shining public health success."

How to Market a Toxic Waste. i'd gotten wind of the sordid history of fluoride years ago, and then forgotten. it's quite a fascinating and sinister story.

what jakobsen said

"without contradiction, there is no interplay of concepts, no interplay of signs, the relationship between the concept and the sign becomes automatic, the progress of events comes to a halt, and all consciousness of reality dies [...] poetry protects us from this automaticization, from the rust that threatens our formulation of love, hate, revolt, and reconciliation, faith and negation."

~from julia kristeva's "desire in language"