Badiou+Q

Badiou, 98** (Alain, Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil, 73-77) What allows a genuine event...directed at everyone
 * The affirmative claim to save a particular identity group is what Badiou calls a simulacrum of the truth. Simulacrums are dangerous because they create an “us” of ethical insiders vs a “them” of outsiders. This is the root of war, racism, and genocide. Only a search for universals that we refuse to impose on others can be emancipatory.

The alternative is to break with such rules and give ourselves over to the particular event—what Badiou calls fidelity to the event. Badiou, 98** (Alain, Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil, 14-16) Every collective...of Kinshasa
 * Ethical principles remove us from the urgency of particular needs. We focus on identifying situations that match the rules, rather than imagining a positive vision of the future. This reduces us all to a subhuman mass.

Badiou, 05** (http://www.lacan.com/badtruth.htm, Appears in Metapolitics, New York: Verso, 2005, Alain Badiou, • Highly Speculative Reasoning on the Concept of Democracy, translated Barbara Fulks). The representation of the State...the egalitarian maxim is practicable.
 * Our alternative can only succeed by maintaining its distance from the state. Politics must be conceived of as the search for a universal that is uncompromised by political calculations.