V: Ah, I was forgetting that we are not properly introduced. I do not have a name. You can call me V. Madam Justice...this is V. V... this is Madam Justice. hello, Madam Justice.
Justice: Good evening, V.
V: There. Now we know each other. Actually, I've been a fan of yours for quite some time. Oh, I know what you're thinking...
Justice: The poor boy has a crush on me...an adolescent fatuation.
V: I beg your pardon, Madam. It isn't like that at all. I've long admired you...albeit only from a distance. I used to stare at you from the streets below when I was a child. I'd say to my father, "Who is that lady?" And he'd say "That's Madam Justice." And I'd say "Isn't she pretty."
V: Please don't think it was merely physical. I know you're not that sort of girl. No, I loved you as a person. As an ideal.
Justice: What? V! For shame! You have betrayed me for some harlot, some vain and pouting hussy with painted lips and a knowing smile!
V: I, Madam? I beg to differ! It was your infidelity that drove me to her arms!
V: Ah-ha! That surprised you, didn't it? You thought I didn't know about your little fling. But I do. I know everything! Frankly, I wasn't surprised when I found out. You always did have an eye for a man in uniform.
Justice: Uniform? Why I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about. It was always you, V. You were the only one...
V: Liar! Slut! Whore! Deny that you let him have his way with you, him with his armbands and jackboots!
V: Well? Cat got your tongue? I though as much.
V: Very well. So you stand revealed at last. you are no longer my justice. You are his justice now. You have bedded another.
Justice: Sob! Choke! Wh-who is she, V? What is her name?
V: Her name is Anarchy. And she has taught me more as a mistress than you ever did! She has taught me that justice is meaningless without freedom. She is honest. She makes no promises and breaks none. Unlike you, Jezebel. I used to wonder why you could never look me in the eye. Now I know. So good bye, dear lady. I would be saddened by our parting even now, save that you are no longer the woman I once loved.
*KABOOM!*
-"V for Vendetta"
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Date: 2007-07-27 01:53 pm (UTC)However, what "face" would you suggest for a sceptic agnostic with existentialist leanings who disproves of idolatry of people, symbols, causes and especially "-isms"?
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Date: 2007-07-27 01:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-27 02:12 pm (UTC)I guess this is what one gets for failing to specify ALL pet peeves.
To redeem myself, however, and salvage this reply from uselessness, I would supply the obligatory unfunny Philosophy joke:
The French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre was sitting in a cafe when a waitress approached him: "Can I get you something to drink, Monsieur Sartre?"
Sartre replied, "Yes, I'd like a cup of coffee with sugar, but no cream".
Nodding agreement, the waitress walked off to fill the order and Sartre returned to working. A few minutes later, however, the waitress returned and said, "I'm sorry, Monsieur Sartre, we are all out of cream -- how about with no milk?"
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Date: 2007-07-27 02:21 pm (UTC)De Beauvoir?
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Date: 2007-07-27 02:47 pm (UTC)What I meant can be simplified into a shirt bearing the slogan: "If you're reading this, stop and form your own opinion based on independent research and thought."
I just hate mindless sheep, regardless to their spoon-fed opinions or political tendencies.
And nothing says mindless sheep more than a T-shirt representing a concept with which you're unfamiliar.
Now, if people could stop saying the same slogans they are wearing and think instead, I would be really happy, but I guess things have to start small.
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Date: 2007-07-27 02:55 pm (UTC)I'm sure you'll figure something for yourself :)
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Date: 2007-07-28 09:26 am (UTC)How do you feel about Lacan?
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Date: 2007-07-28 01:06 pm (UTC)I have no problem with Sartre himself, but rather the immediate connection regularly made between him and the general philosophical approach for which he was known.
Very similar to attacks on a particular genre of culture\art, based on faulty misconceptions about specific representatives of said genre (i.e "Detective stories are pulp". Can one consider "The Brothers Karamazov" and "Crime and Punishment" the same type of pulp? Both are early examples of the genre, with the same motifs as present-day whodunits.)
Ha!
Date: 2007-07-28 09:24 am (UTC)