I love that phrase's import of utopian impossibility. I love how Barthes invites us all to think of his phrase as if it weren't utopian. I love how that phrase urges us all, not to discover how little we need each day in order to eke by, but to discover how to wish for more. If any of us really knew the answer, needless to say, these electronic page-oids would be filled with nothing but sagacious silence. Everything, that is, is as it should be.
Creation is an always-already collaborative enterprise.
Because I take it as an obvious fact about our world that it is better to live an examined life than to live an unexamined one. Still, in my mind using them skirts the umber borders of bad faith. Students often headed off in directions they never might have headed off in otherwise. Everything, that is, is as it should be.