In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThis sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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The world is not dialectical – it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.
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Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
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It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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