There’s a good bit in Peter Weiss’ Marat/Sade, where the bloated obscenity Sade mocks the revolutionary idealism of the wizened maniac Marat. In any choice between two trolls you go with the one with the best lines, and Marat gets wrecked when Sade mocks the promises of the revolution. These lies they tell he sneers, about the poor having more soup, the poet more lines, the shoeless having shoes – it’s all cobblers. Sade says the revolution never fulfils its promises to those desperate enough to believe in it. We have a little revolution going on in all our heads right now, and if you would like to keep yours, well, you’d better start believing in it.
Nowadays these lies they tell are designed to replace your ability to describe your life with a programme of humiliations.
Issues which arise in reality and not as a result of the Regime media are ambiguous until assigned a place in the identity parade. Once we know whether it is on the Right Side of History we can stop worrying. The uneas…
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