Erik

“When one abdicates universality, one obtains universal horror.”
― Alain Badiou, Theory of the Subject

“The point of public relations slogans like “Support our troops” is that they don’t mean anything. They mean as much as whether you support the people in Iowa. Of course, there was an issue. The issue was, Do you support our policy? But you don’t want people to think about that issue. That’s the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody’s going to be against, and everybody’s going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn’t mean anything. Its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something: Do you support our policy?”
― Noam Chomsky, Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda

“We need to kill Aristotle!”
― Alain Badiou

“The forward to the landmark 1980 DSM III was appropriately modest and acknowledged that this diagnostic system was imprecise. So imprecise that it never should be used for forensic or insurance purposes. As we will see that modesty was tragically short lived.”
― Bessel Van Der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score, How Healing Works, Hashimoto Thyroid Cookbook 3 Books Collection Set