The quality of the world cup matches so far have been far from desirable and substandard to say the least. A world cup is supposed to have the best of the best, and a 48-team WC dilutes that ethos.
“The true significance and the revolutionary character of the Hegelian philosophy lay precisely in the fact that once and for all it dealt the death blow to the final validity of all products of human thought and activity.”
—Friedrich Engels
"The psychoanalyst does not realise the decisive position he holds by articulating, 𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘵𝘳ä𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘩, as Freud puts it, a deferred action that establishes the truth of what came earlier."
— Lacan
"Human society has always been a folly. It's none the worse for that. It has always been like that, will always be like that. After all, it has to be admitted that a fair number of ideas are increasingly spineless. Everything is a continuation of everything else."
—J. Lacan
"Being in dialogue is one of the most enormous pretensions of our times. Have you ever seen people in dialogue? Occasions when we speak of dialogue are always a little bit like domestic quarrels."
—Jacques Lacan
"The subject is manufactured by a certain number of articulations that have taken place, and falls from the signifying chain in the way that ripe fruit falls."
— Jacques Lacan
"Doing a bit of mathematics would not be bad training for psychoanalysts. In mathematics, the subject is fluid and pure, and it isn't stuck or trapped anywhere."
— Jacques Lacan, My Teaching
"A post-language subject; that is the subject we can purify so elegantly in mathematical logic. Only, there is still always something to be cited, something that was already there."
— Jacques Lacan