from The Ticklish Subject:
"The fool is a simpleton,
a court jester who is allowed to tell the truth precisely because the
'performative power' (the sociopolitical efficiency) of his speech is
suspended; the knave is the cynic who openly states the truth, a crook who
tries to sell the open admission of his crookedness as honesty, a scoundrel who
admit the need for illegitimate repression in order to maintain social
stability.
Following the fall of
Socialism, the knave is a neo-conservative advocate of the free market, who
cruelly rejects all forms of social solidarity as counterproductive
sentimentalism; while the fool is a multiculturalist 'radical' social critic
who, by means of his ludic procedures destined to 'subvert' the existing order,
actually serves as its supplement."
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