Mr. Jean Baudrillard (perhaps taking a cue from Mr. Marshall McLuhan?) in his “The Spirit of Terrorism”, makes the rakishly absolute claim that systems of exclusion (positive vs. negative, life vs. death, et & c.) will reverse their operations when given a weaponized gift of their absolutely opposing forces.
pariah
–noun
| 1. | an outcast. |
| 2. | any person or animal that is generally despised or avoided. |
| 3. | (initial capital letter ) a member of a low caste in southern India and Burma. |
[Origin: 1605–15; < Tamil paṟaiyar, pl. of paṟaiyan lit., drummer (from a hereditary duty of the caste), deriv. of paṟai a festival drum]
—Related forms
pa·ri·ah·dom, noun
pa·ri·ah·ism, noun
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n.
- A social outcast: “Shortly Tom came upon the juvenile pariah of the village, Huckleberry Finn, son of the town drunkard” (Mark Twain).
- An Untouchable.
