A arte de tirar o tapete

"Anything you can do, I can do meta."

"Going meta is a great way to sneer at someone. You remove the rug from underneath the other's feet. Their mere immediacy is always false. It's the deep structure, the numinous background, the possibility of the possibility of the horizon of the event, that is more real, better, or just more rhetorically effective, than anything else. [...] The syndrome of going meta is repeated in countless different philosophical modes."
Timothy Morton, Hyperobjects