tues., 13 july, 2021: it’s almost bastille day, iii.: give us This Day our Daily Curse

[NOTE: these terms are weaponized language, & meant to give offense. Which is the whole & compleat & total & entire point of insult & invective, obscenity & blasphemy, & other political speech.]

FRENCH:  “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité”  ‡

FRENCH:  “T. F. P. / Travail, Famille, Patrie”  ‡‡

FRENCH:  “Révolution c’est l’ opium des intellectuelles...”  ‡‡‡

       

‡) “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”  —  French Nat’l motto, dating fr. the French Revolution,  & conceptually embedded in the French Constitution  ;

 ‡‡)  “Work, Family, Fatherland”  —  Nat’l motto of the Vichy Regime, the fascist fuck-puppet govt. of the Nazi occupation ;

  ‡‡‡)  “Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals...”  —  Popular Post-May ’68 Situationist graffito that sprayed its way across European & US campuses, & eventually found its way into Lindsay Anderson’s O LUCKY MAN!

      

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