We Must Uncover Our Rituals For What They Are: Completely Arbitrary Things, Tied To Our Bourgeois Way Of Life; It Isgood-and That Is The Real Theater-totranscend Them In The Manner Of Play, Bymeans Of Games And Irony; It Is Good To Be Dirty And Bearded, To Have Long Hair,to Look Like A Girl When One Is A Boy (and Vice Versa); One Must Put "inplay," Show Up, Transform And Reversethe Systems Which Quietly Order Us About.

-Michel Foucault

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We Must Uncover Our Rituals For What

Michel Foucault

We Must Uncover Our Rituals For What They Are: Completely Arbitrary Things, Tied To Our Bourgeois Way Of Life; It Isgood-and That Is The Real Theater-totranscend Them In The Manner Of Play, Bymeans Of Games And Irony; It Is Good To Be Dirty And Bearded, To Have Long Hair,to Look Like A Girl When One Is A Boy (and Vice Versa); One Must Put "inplay," Show Up, Transform And Reversethe Systems Which Quietly Order Us About.

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During The Years 1945-1965 (i Am Referring To Europe), There Was A Certain Way Of Thinking Correctly, A Certain Style Of Politicaldiscourse, A Certain Ethics Of The Intellectual. One Had To Be On Familiar Terms With Marx, Not Let One's Dreams Stray Too Far From Freud.... These Were Therequirements That Made The Strange Occupation Of Writing And Speaking A Measure Of Truth About Oneself And One's Time Acceptable.

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