Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech. If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.

So this Barthes fellow? He was a haver of takes? The very hottest takes?

i mean sad in a judgemental way but yeah lmao