Zizek & Machiavelli, Not Hegel (was Re: Montesinos)

[Gordon Fitch]

Yoshie Furuhashi:
> ... 
> What of Blake?  I'm afraid that I cannot agree with him that "The cut 
> worm forgives the plow" ("The Marriage of Heaven and Hell").  Human 
> beings are not worms, and victims of historical progress, past and 
> present, did not and will not forgive victors & those of us who enjoy 
> the fruits of progress.  ...

Oh, but they do.  Cut them enough and they ask if they can
take a turn helping you with the plow.  Poor worms, who have
no hands to hold a plow!  They can only forgive -- _amor_
_fati_.