a moment of topsy-turvy

[nimsooze]

"In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false."
What does "a moment of" mean here?

[vil]

1. topsy-turvy = with the top downward and the bottom up, upside down (inverted)

2. false = something false = a lie

3. moment = a) an essential or constituent element, as of complex idea

b) a phase or an aspect of a logically developing process

[nimsooze]

Has "moment" any physical or mathematical implication here?

[Anglika]

Originally Posted by nimsooze

"In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false."
What does "a moment of" mean here?

In a topsy-turvy world [ a world that is back to front], something that is untrue can for a short time be regarded as true.

Do you have a little more context? This is an intriguing sentence.

[nimsooze]

This sentence is from Guy Ernest Debord's The Society of the Spectacle.This book is consisted of about 220 aphorism-like paragraphs and this sentence is one of them.

[nimsooze]

no help?

[Anglika]

Sorry - what more did you want to know?

[exotic stranger]

It doesn't really make any since to me and it's very confussing!

[nimsooze]

Originally Posted by Anglika

Do you have a little more context? This is an intriguing sentence.

now what?

[Anglika]

Are we at cross-purposes? I have my information and am grateful for it. It has helped to read the aphorism in the original French, which actually makes the concept much simpler.