False pleasure False pleasure False pleasure may be a pleasure based on a false belief (as of supposedly having come into money), or a pleasure compared with more real, or greater pleasures. Lacan maintained that philosophers should seek to "discern not true pleasures from false, for such a distinction is impossible to make, but the true and false goods that pleasure points to". Plato devoted much attention to the belief that "no pleasure save that of the wise is quite true and pure - all others are shadows only" - both in The Republic and in his late dialogue Philebus. Augustine saw
Less Than Zero (song) the plan to switch songs, inspired by a live performance on the BBC's "The Lulu Show" in 1969 in which Jimi Hendrix had scrapped a performance of Hey Joe after a few bars to instead play an impromptu tribute to Cream, who had broken up just days before. "Less Than Zero" appears on the first Stiff Records compilation; "A Bunch of Stiff Records", whilst the B-side, "Radio Sweetheart", appears on their second; "Hits Greatest Stiffs". Less Than Zero (song) "Less Than Zero" is the eighth track on Elvis Costello's debut album "My Aim Is True", and the first Costello single