{"id":8898,"date":"2011-10-11T10:43:24","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T14:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/?p=8898"},"modified":"2012-12-26T16:14:35","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T21:14:35","slug":"a-world-absent-of-red-ink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/quote-of-the-day\/10\/11\/a-world-absent-of-red-ink\/","title":{"rendered":"A World Absent Of Red Ink"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let me tell you a wonderful, old joke from Communist times. A guy was sent from East Germany to work in Siberia. He knew his mail would be read by censors, so he told his friends: \u201cLet\u2019s establish a code. If a letter you get from me is written in blue ink, it is true what I say. If it is written in red ink, it is false.\u201d After a month, his friends get the first letter. Everything is in blue. It says, this letter: \u201cEverything is wonderful here. Stores are full of good food. Movie theatres show good films from the west. Apartments are large and luxurious. The only thing you cannot buy is red ink.\u201d This is how we live. We have all the freedoms we want. But what we are missing is red ink: the language to articulate our non-freedom. The way we are taught to speak about freedom\u2014 war on terror and so on\u2014falsifies freedom. And this is what you are doing here. You are giving all of us red ink.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

– Slavoj \u017di\u017eek at Occupy Wall Street protests in New York<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let me tell you a wonderful, old joke from Communist times. A guy was sent from East Germany to work in Siberia. He knew his mail would be read by censors, so he told his friends: \u201cLet\u2019s establish a code. If a letter you get from me is written in blue ink, it is true […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nA World Absent Of Red Ink - Prose Before Hos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Let me tell you a wonderful, old joke from Communist times. A guy was sent from East Germany to work in Siberia. 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