令人讨厌的不是反美主义，这是可以理解的，甚至是在其对美国统治的抵抗力的抵制，令人钦佩。令人讨厌的是平淡无奇的确定性，缺乏警惕的好奇心，无能为力的自我反思，准备与Erreur Distante的准备，并等待其他人更改论文。
(What was maddening was not the anti-Americanism, which is understandable and even, in its Astérix-style resistance to American domination, admirable. What is maddening is the bland certainty, the lack of vigilant curiosity, the incapacity for critical self-reflection, the readiness to afficher erreur distante and wait for somebody else to change the paper.)