Status Updates From Mythologies - Roland Barthes

Steak essay had me reconsidering vegetarianism and shit

..adapt the moral rule of your condition, but never compromise about the dogma on which it rests.

..femininity is pure, free, powerful; but man is everywhere around, he presses on all sides, he makes everything exist; he is in all eternity the creative absence..

…to write is a glorious but bold activity; the writer is an 'artist', one recognizes that he is entitled to a little bohemianism.

..what is expected is the intelligible representation of moral situations which are usually private. This emptying out of interiority to the benefit of its exterior signs, this exhaustion of the content by the form, is the very principle of triumphant classical art.

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

myth — falsely obvious

The starting point of these reflections was usually a feeling of impatience at the sight of the 'naturalness' with which news-papers, art and common sense constantly dress up a reality which, even though it is the one we live in, is undoubtedly determined by history.