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A Truly Common Culture Is Not One In Which We All Think Alike, Or In Which We All Believe That Fairness Is Next To Godliness, But One In Which Everyone Is Allowed To Be In On The Project Of Cooperatively Shaping A Common Way Of Life.

All Propaganda Or Popularization Involves A Putting Of The Complex Into The Simple, But Such A Move Is Instantly Deconstructive. For If The Complex Can Be Put Into The Simple, Then It Cannot Be As Complex As It Seemed In The First Place; And If The Simple Can Be An Adequate Medium Of Such Complexity, Then It Cannot After All Be As Simple As All That.

Today, Nostalgia Is Almost As Unacceptable As Racism.

Most Poetry In The Modern Age Has Retreated To The Private Sphere, Turning Its Back On The Political Realm.

In Conscious Life, We Achieve Some Sense Of Ourselves As Reasonably Unified, Coherent Selves, And Without This Action Would Be Impossible. But All This Is Merely At The 'imaginary' Level Of The Ego, Which Is No More Than The Tip Of The Iceberg Of The Human Subject Known To Psychoanalysis. The Ego Is Function Or Effect Of A Subject Which Is Always Dispersed, Never Identical With Itself, Strung Out Along The Chains Of The Discourses Which Constitute It.