M. Pierce Joyce’s Reviews > Sad Boy Aesthetics > Status Update

"...allow me to channel my inner Žižekian
by sharing a good Baudrillardian joke with you. Upon the
gallows, amongst the spectacle of the jeering crowds, the
executioner takes the capitalist aside for a moment, asking,
“Why were you so foolish as to sell them the rope with which
you knew they would hang you?”
“Oh, my good comrade.” The capitalist smiles, knowingly.
“Who do you think sold them the revolution?”