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The series that began our show has turned, somehow strangely predictably, into a series of series'. Like linguistics itself, we have attempted to create a factual skeleton, or "Deep Structure", as Noam Chomsky (you DO remember that he IS a linguist, right?) would call it, upon which to hang the information we have disovered and given to our now almost 3,000 listeners.
It has not, however been yet completed. Meanwhile, as we began the investigative reports regarding The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), we began with a fundamental overview of the organization. Our listeners could at least have (we believed) a few points of reference to new information, adding unknown to only known, which is my personal preference for teaching style. Going from known to unknown, making that now known information, repeating the process.
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Then, we began adding, through a largely transformational process, some more specifics to the framework by focusing on several particular and specific areas of investigation which was meant to cast some light, brief and dim as it may be, upon how ALEC is potentially impacting the citizens across the Progressive Southern United States. It was (and is today) my belief that ALEC is using the "Southern Tier" as it's own personal and perverted laboratory to test extremes, and other limitations. Thus, we briefly arrived at Chomsky's "Surface Structure" (the second PPTS series on ALEC).
But, as Chomsky himself has repeated intoned, this is an "incomplete structure", as many important understandings are yet missing, incomplete, or mis-understood. We recently hit that "missing" like a prize fighter hits the opponent's glove with his face!
This show provides us with a way forward, in two most remarkable ways, with two very remarkable special guests (Yet another first for PPTS).
I hope you will follow me just below the squiggledoodlethingey fold, and see what I mean.
