Because, it is as it is...

What an exuberant market day yesterday was.  Irrational?  We shall see.  In the meantime, Missmc has been flicking through Alain Badiou's Logics of Worlds, Being and Event II looking for some kind of correlative track of thought.  Hands down, this is the hardest book to read that I've ever ever encountered.  I do think a mathematically inclined brain would fare better.  I've wrestled with the the first thirty pages, glanced at the handy dictionary of symbols, and wandered through "notes, commentary and digressions".  And I can't get in there.  This book is less the famously socialist Badiou and focuses more on the concept of logic.  So far, I am thinking he has a bit of Russell's mathematical acrobatics crossed with Wittgenstein's Tractatus, but I could be far far off the mark. 

In a recent interview with Badiou on Hardtalk (BBC), the focus was on the political in relation to the economic crisis.  His theoretical abstractions were bashed about a bit by the interviewer whose mandate seemed to be to reveal Badiou as a raging communist.  When Badiou was asked about reactions to the economic crisis and whether he thought the French were "angry enough" (daft) he responded thoughtfully, dismissing the idea of anger in itself as enough.

To paraphrase, he said, "You must have some ideas, some great ideas"..."ideas of the possibility of something else"...

Here is the interview. Parts two and three add nothing and are worth skipping so I've not posted them...

But you should not miss the best quote from part 2 --

"As a philosopher, I never accept the world as it is, because, it is as it is..." "chuckle chuckle".