The imperialism of reason, neoimperialism of difference.
What is essential is that nothing escape the empire of meaning, the sharing of meaning. Certainly, behind all that, nothing speaks to us, neither the mad, nor the dead, nor children, nor savages, and fundamentally we know nothing of them, but what is essential is that Reason save face, and that everything escape silence.
[Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, p. 137]