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If the thought enunciates an object as a truth, it is only as a challenge to this object's own self-fulfillment.

Truth

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One day, we shall stand up and our backsides will remain attached to our seats.

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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

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The first Gulf War "did not take place". The Gulf War is the inverse of the Clausewitzian formula: it was not "the continuation of politics by other means", but "the continuation of the absence of politics by other means". Accordingly, Saddam Hussein was not fighting the Allied Forces, but using the lives of his soldiers as a form of sacrifice to preserve his power. The Allied Forces fighting the Iraqi military forces were merely dropping 10,000 tonnes of bombs daily, as if proving to themselves that there was an enemy to fight. So, too, were the Western media complicit, presenting the war in real time, by recycling images of war to propagate the notion that the two enemies, the US ,and allies, were actually fighting the Iraqi Army, but, such was not the case. Saddam Hussein did not use his military capacity, the Iraqi Air Force, his politico-military power was not weakened, he suppressed the Kurdish insurgency against Iraq at war's end, so, concluding that politically little had changed in Iraq: the enemy went undefeated, the victors were not victorious, therefore, there was no war: the Gulf War did not occur.

Politics, Power, War

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One may dream of a culture where everyone bursts into laughter when someone says: this is true, this is real.

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The simulacrum now hides, not the truth, but the fact that there is none, that is to say, the continuation of Nothingness.

Truth

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Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.

History

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Not only does reality resist those who still criticize it, but it also abandons those who defend it. Maybe it is a way for reality to get its revenge from those who claim to believe in it for the sole purpose of eventually transforming it: sending back its supporters to their own desires.

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Saddam liquidates the communists, Moscow flirts even more with him; he gases the Kurds, it is not held against him; he eliminates the religious cadres, the whole of Islam makes peace with him. Even the 100,000 dead will only have been the final decoy that Saddam will have sacrificed, the blood money paid in forfeit according to a calculated equivalence, in order to conserve his power. What is worse is that these dead still serve as an alibi for those who do not want to have been excited for nothing: at least these dead will prove this war was indeed a war and not a shameful and pointless hoax .

Money, Peace, Power, Religion, War

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Dying is nothing. You have to know how to disappear. Dying comes down to a biological chance and that is of no consequence. Disappearing is of a far higher order of necessity. You must not leave it to biology to decide when you will disappear. To disappear is to pass into an enigmatic state which is neither life nor death. Some animals know how to do this, as do savages, who withdraw while still alive, from the sight of their own people.

Death

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