Upon further reflection, I was a little bit dissatisfied with yesterday's post, particularly the second half, which was a perfect example of sardonicism as a defensive posture (see Peter Sloterdijk's Critique of Cynical Reason for more). The Christian Right's generosity with both money and time to humane causes can be genuinely befuddling to those of us in the My Dinner with Andre set. They advocate such nasty policies, and then do good stuff. Whassup?
Us blue staters have to fight against our own version of the paradox of anti-semiticism of which Slavoj Zhizhek has written so fondly. Here's how that plays out:
Gentile 1: "You can't trust that Jew merchant as far as you can throw him"
Gentile 2: "But he seems so honest."
Gentile 1: "Yeah yeah, but I see right through it"
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Taking it back
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