“There was that article sniff about a man watching porn on the bus, and all the people on the right and on the left saw it and were saying sniff were saying, ‘my God, what happened to society?’ And I saw it sniff, and I said, this man (plucks shirt), this man is a genius! While everyone is out crying about the decay of morals, and the loss of a Lacanian subjective, and so on, this man has found sniff a way to embody in himself the true essence of modernity. Because the distinction sniff between what is private and what is public, that distinction which is at the root of our liberal democratic order – and which, as my master Lacan used to say, is the root of the erotic – that distinction sniff ceases to have meaning when the category of self is mediated through a mass media. This what the Marxists stupidly sniff refer to as a false consciousness…”