“How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how much joking around it can take. For truth is a matter that can withstand mockery, that is freshened by any ironic gesture directed at it. Whatever cannot withstand satire is false.” — Peter Sloterdijk
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March 29, 2013 at 2:32 am
Ironically, it’s from University of Minnesota Press.
March 29, 2013 at 3:07 am
That’s rape apology!
March 30, 2013 at 12:10 pm
here is my contribution, reworded…
March 30, 2013 at 12:11 pm
Let’s try again
April 3, 2013 at 1:11 am
Satire of anybody is harrasment.
Except politicians.
And religious figures.
And anybody with a write-up in PZ’s failure of a dungeon.
July 29, 2014 at 10:09 am
Franc, I think Ophelia Benson may be calling your name without realizing that’s what she’s doing: http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2014/07/not-diogenes/
Your post above is the only connection I’ve been able to come up with that’s anything like a link between the Sloterdijk quote and the ‘Pit, which makes her claim (that a google search readily ties it, with false attribution to Diogenes, to Vacula and the ‘Pit) appear to be a lie.
And, with this comment, this page may now turn up in searches of Diogenes & the Sloterdijk quote, for Benson to enjoy. 🙂
July 29, 2014 at 2:05 pm
She is. Someone has used a few of my images (which I condone and encourage). Again, Oafy is putting on a peacock display of her own butt ignorance. I want to see how deep she chooses to step in it before (or if) I bother responding.