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Shameful honor or honorable shame?

August 26, 2008 - 2:11 pm - by Richard Fernandez
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2008-08-26 15:32:59

Nomenklatura writes:

“‘Ayers’ and Obama’s careers consist entirely of being parasites.’”

Michel Serres, in “The Parasite” (1982),considers parasitism as a model of politics, and of all of culture. The guest, the feast, the noise, the interruption, over and over.

“Every parasite that is a bit gifted, at the table of a somewhat sumptuous host, soon transforms the table into a theater.”

“The parasite is a microbe, an insidious infection that takes without giving and weakens without killing. The parasite is also a guest, who exchanges his talk, praise, and flattery for food. The parasite is noise as well, the static in a system or the interference in a channel.”

There is some interruption, some upsetting of the feast, going on in Denver, and in the Ayers videos.

Stay tuned.