There is a Lacan quote - I should find it. I will. It might be the beginning of the Rome Discourse or maybe The Freudian Thing - one of the Ecrits. Man cannot bear his own truth. To bear one's own power - to stare it in the eyes: this we cannot do. As human beings and as a species, we simply avoid it. The limits of reason turn out to be libidinal before they are logical. We cannot bear our power, so we find distractions. A whole array of consumer goods, affects and habits owes its existence to this basic fact: the fact of the Armistice