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在 ESWN 看到這個：

Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks

看了幾段，驚嘆作者可以天南地北，無所不談，不禁問，作者是誰？看一看，哦，原來是齊澤克，難怪。

文章有兩段，雖然只是齊澤克引述他人的說話，但實在很精警：

We shouldn’t forget that power comprises not only institutions and their rules, but also legitimate (‘normal’) ways of challenging it (an independent press, NGOs etc) – as the Indian academic Saroj Giri put it, WikiLeaks ‘challenged power by challenging the normal channels of challenging power and revealing the truth’.

不要問我上面這段說話為何精警，它其實有很大的詮釋空間，但下面這段，相信任何人都會明白（而且還很實用）：

In Baisers volés, Delphine Seyrig explains to her young lover the difference between politeness and tact: ‘Imagine you inadvertently enter a bathroom where a woman is standing naked under the shower. Politeness requires that you quickly close the door and say, “Pardon, Madame!”, whereas tact would be to quickly close the door and say: “Pardon, Monsieur!”’ It is only in the second case, by pretending not to have seen enough even to make out the sex of the person under the shower, that one displays true tact.