How To Stay Alive

If you are in the contemporary West, and if you want to stay alive, that is, want to be accepted by the Sophisticated People as a member of their charmed group, you should know precisely who and what is dead. To help you to survive, I have compiled a list of slogans that you should try to memorise (='internalise') :

(1) The Author is Dead.

(2) The Reader is Dead.

(3) The Writer is Dead.

(4) The Subject is Dead.

(5) The 'I' is Dead.

(6) History is Dead.

(7) Politics is Dead.

(8) Society is Dead.

(9) The Individual is Dead.

(10) Man is Dead.

(11) Woman is Dead.

(12) Progress is Dead.

(13) God is Dead.

(14) Marx is Dead.

(15) Language is Dead.

(16) Truth is Dead.

(17) The Government is Dead.

(18) The Law is Dead.

(19) Socialism is Dead.

(20) Meaning is Dead.

(21) The End is Dead.

Perhaps you are now asking yourself : 'Oh boy, how did I manage to survive with all these things and people dying all around me?' To which, I can only answer : 'Perhaps with the daily dose of irony from my blog. After all, when you are hungry, irony will keep you alive.'