I read this:
...[Glenn Beck's] 9-12 project [is] meant to conjure the spirit of compassion and camaraderie Americans felt on September 12, 2001."We weren't told how to behave that day after 9/11, we just knew," Beck says to describe the project. "It was right, it was the opposite of what we feel today. Are you ready to be the person you were that day after 9/11, on 9/12?"
Reading that made me think of this:
Alain Badiou! Is the 9-12 project not the same as the theory on being faithful to the event, fidelity to the founding or original moment/principles? The content of Badiou's project, of course, is not the same as Beck's. But the form is identical. With Badiou, fidelity to the event is a way of protecting and justifying the revolutionary moment, which was eventually betrayed or corrupted by leaders like Castro or Mugabe. You did not say that the revolution failed but that the leaders failed the revolution; and so what is important is the spirit of that moment. Beck is saying the same thing, but this time the moment is 9-12. He wants Americans to be faithful to that moment in the way Badiou wants the French to be faithful to the spirit of 1968.
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