Dialectic Don joins the paradox stars

In the world of Western pop culture, there have been the Beatles' Polythene Pam, David Bowie's Major Tom, and T Rex's Telegram Sam. Joining the group is Dialectic Don. Asked on Monday whether the US-Israel war against Iran was 'very complete' as he had earlier stated, or 'just the beginning' as US war secretary Pete 'This. Is. SPARTAAA!' Hegseth had said, Don-to-Dusk replied with the koan, 'You could say both.' And, thus, ladies and gentlemen, the dialectic has been reborn - not in the dusty halls of Hegel's study but in the fluorescent glare of Mar-a-Logic.

Plato gave us the cave. Heraclitus gave us the river. Trumpus gave us the war that's simultaneously over and not yet begun. Literalists in Pentagon may insist on linear timelines, but America's C-in-C insists on simultaneity. He is not bound by the tyranny of 'either/or'. He is the crusader of 'yes/and'. This is not contradiction but transcendence. To say 'both' is to liberate language not just from the shackles of meaning but also the throttle of single (read: unpalatable) consequences. Trump joins the great pantheon of paradox-mongers: Zeno with his arrows that when released never move, Laozi with his nameless Tao (the Jedi's 'Force'), and now Dialectic Don with his quantum war. The press corps may scoff. But we philosophers in disguise know exactly the 'rubbish' he's talking about.