Avital RonellTo make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.
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People who try to make things perfectly clear are usually reactionary and stupefying. They are the ones who insist that the way things are is the way they must be. Yet, the real is not perfectly clear, and it doesn't need to be. In order to make something perfect, you have to have a perfect idea of what it should look like in the first place. That's why revolutionaries start from a position of accepting that things are never going to be perfect.
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