Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent allied with Democrats, on Sunday released a list of ten big profitable U.S. companies paying little or no taxes...Sanders is pushing for corporations to pay more of a fair "share."
It's worth taking another moment to dissect this interbulous, Zizekian fallacy. After all, what more can be said about Sanders, whose weltanschauung is a tangle of conceptual binaries, self-affirming inferences, and prior assumptions that treat image as reality. Whose lacanian unconscious is labyrinth-like structured, ignores logic, the time dimension and expresses itself by metaphors.
As Albertus Magnus famously said, "The beaver is an animal which has feet like those of a goose for swimming and front teeth like a dog, since it frequently walks on land. It is called the castor from 'castration,' but not because it castrates itself as Isodore says, but because it is especially sought for castration purposes. "
First, it is entirely interpenetrative of our universe; as Uncle Chu would say, "The Outside is here, Mister Burton." Second, paying attention to the imbrication of new stuff upon the still living old. What did Haraclitus say of "guardian divinity?"
Epictitus, where are you now? "progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it."
That the words are synecdochical was before affirmed; what it is under the power of that figure is the grammatical sense of the words. To think that this is sufficient for non-rigidity, Williamson complains, is to confuse non-rigidity for indexicality.
What would La Rochefoucauld say? Ah, no doubt "Adulatione servilia fingebant securi de fragilitate credentis."
The abject wrongness of Sanders' babble should be completely clear now.
Ibid, I say; and op cite.
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