cynical slippages and meta-narratives...

[Carl Remick]

Re:  "As Horkheimer said, cynicism is the worst kind of conformity. You
pretend to know better, but play along."

Great line, Doug.  Similar in corrosive power is the plague of cheap
irony that now infects popular culture -- where things that are utterly
witless or ugly are celebrated as *knowing comments* on witlessness or
ugliness.

Carl Remick