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This week on the Prospect Podcast, philosopher and public intellectual Slavoj Žižek joins Ellen Halliday and Alona Ferber.
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This guy. ☺️ Save some tookus for the rest of us, Slavoj. You party manimal, you. KEEP ROCKIN.
(And if the tent trailer’s a-rockin, don’t come a-knockin) 🥳🍻😛
Mr Starmer unfortunately cannot hold a candle to the late Mrs Thatcher. “ The Lady is not for turning” !
no academic compass… changing positions as wind….. no nerves to listen to him… just to remind you HE supported Boris Johnson when he pushed Ukro in 1.200.000 dead..and counting
During my studies in UK I stole a lot of books, mainly sociology, WW2, and some from International relations. I deeply regret stealing Slavoj Zizeks books – its a nonsense- I gave an ad on Facebook to give them as a present, all of them….and nobody called… !
30:00 yes totally agree. Take back immediately from the corporations and wealthy minority that is supposed to be for the people.
Need a vaccine for TDS
Trump Is O'Brian 1984 hope you follow the tread and find the conclusion
Slavoj ❤❤❤
Elon Musk do not lives as communists, I protested, because the honest population at the left or right political side never lives and never will practised Musk's style of life , he seems mentally sick!
turn political government into God free will sovereignty with citizen democracy human choice for divine central authority unity
Democracy no longer has meaning… their is none
Funny how..no one ever mentions..all the men..that just dont support children the create..THEY WALK AWAY… fatherless because their father is a disgusting human being
I feel the most ironic thing is if someone criticized a big company CEO, Elon Musk, Zuckerberg, etc. then people joke or ask them that a big company CEO makes the world better. Nowadays, the commodity by using exploitation a labor change to a good gift or something. And these laborers feel relieved to see more exploited laborers than themselves.
Sexual freedom is an appalling concept. Show me a person in a high social position that can get away with doing it. Shouldn't they be connected? Shouldn't it be that if you have a high social status, you should be able to get a lot of sex? No one can do that. They all have to hide, and if they get revealed… How did it come to this? Why would anyone bother getting a high social status if there's just no sex up there? Have the people gone mad? Is this insanity? Working your way up the corporate ladder just so you can be sexually castrated by the rank? And by getting it, I mean getting it. Yourself. Of your own choosing. None of that
Kim Jong-un crap, look at me how cool I am, I have 50 women to sleep with, I don't know any of them, some even scare me a bit. OK? Regular stuff. Here's a girl I like, let me call her over, maybe she wants to mingle with the other women I like.
If you have to ask: when didthe left reach that Point,you Re probably part of the problem, sry…
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Gilligan's Island really liberated me sexually in '68. Mary Ann and Ginger. This man is a genius. Chomsky doesnt think much of this guy, but then I feel Chomsky is only a half step up from him.
'My answer may shock you'. Never, Slavoj! 😂
Incredibly grateful for him in these times. He's the most lucid thinker since Hannah Arendt.
Can anybody explain his final remark, please? "Don't forget about sensor. Sensor be Stalin with a human 33:33 face." [Edit: I discover that Mologust has already asked this.]
Thousands of Americans living in their cars and vans.
EVITA MENTIONED ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻
I’m on the weird side of YouTube. I’ve always had a soft spot for him; but as the left becomes more and more irrelevant, he just comes off as kooky, and a relic of a time past(10 years ago, ah how times fly)
The guy is a genius. How he controls so many strands of thought and perception, and relates them to each other, which initally appears chaotic, but then emerges as coherent, is truly extraordinary.
The guy is a mild retard, obviously unhinged with plenty of personal issues.
A left-wing Trump would already be dead, Either literally or metaphorically, he'd have been assassinated a long time ago.
Zizek is either naive or just grifting. But maybe at some unconscious level, he just doesn't want to accept that he backed the wrong side in the Cold War. That maybe he was a counter revolutionary idealist.
I stopped at the "i am a hegelian"
Isn't Bernie Sanders a charismatic leader who could galvanize the American people to overthrow Trump!?
This is a brilliant exposition of the current Left. Unless you submit yourself to their shame and respect them unconditionally, you are a brutal, decadent chauvinist. Tacit admission from Slavoj that the Left is truly nothing but a longhouse and the longhouse wants power and material as both a means and an end.
Yes , unfortunately Zizek is correct about the elitism of woke culture.
It is a high brow self righteousness reminiscent of Puritan Christianity.
Democracy's Mirror"
A madman sits on freedom's throne,
not by force, but votes alone.
No tanks, no coup, no shadowed night—
He rose beneath the ballot's light.
The question burns, both fierce and clear:
What led the people to draw him near?
Is it the system cracked and worn,
or hearts and hopes by chaos torn?
O land that once the dream inspired,
is this the leader you desired?
"Hey Zizek, what time is it?" "Ah, I love this question, because, did you know, I always tell this joke, but… …. ….and that is what is needed today."
Unusually clear! He's often better in interviews than on the page. Insightful: we tend to blame the Right for the decline of universities and for the intensified contradictions in gender relations, but it appears that the Left has also played a causal role, one rather larger than I had thought.
A caveat, Zuckerberg is philosophically untrained. They all are. They don't understand that Consciousness is in a different domain than physical objects like computers. It is fundamentally non-deterministic, computers are algorithmic and therefore deterministic. They cannot connect, not even in principal. Matter has properties, Consciousness has qualia.
Microchipping the brain…. Seems like another technical panacea sold from snake oil salesman. Elon musk is a specialist in selling this kind of thing
What was Zizek referring to with the ending comment of "Censor, censor, Be Stalin with a Human Face."?
Haha! – Zizek complaining that the right out-rads the left. Yeah – that is right.
Revolution is more revolutionary than the genteel Wokist elite has been prepared for.
Should remember the vulgarity of the left's protests during Trump 1.0
Nice. Subbed
zizek is slaying with the new glasses💅
Simply put, the crisis of the world is very plain sight. We'll start there.
. One disease. How are you feeling this morning? How were you feeling when you woke up this morning? And what did you do first?….
Make your coffee. How was the running water? Was the mug prepared? How is the coffee? Was it fresh?
What did you do to fix anything that was unsuitable? How did you fix it? A clean sponge soap, water, hot water.
Was that efficient for you?
Did you even do it?
Did you go get in your car and drive to Starbucks?
Did you take a shower to get there before you drove? Did you ride public transportation or did you have to walk? Did you have the bunny?
He has become a parody of himself. A fairly tame court jester to the Centrists.
Don't worry. Literally pray, and you will have an answer? Pray to nothing, just to give your mind or heart a jumpstart about how to think under a set of rules that scares you, too much about the rules you have for your own life. A small royal "purple" group of people thinking together than can meet in the middle and solve the 1st fears first. It starts with figuring out how to speak to the rural community. There visage has been desperately trying to be erased, by the culture accidentally. They are also poor. They grow the food and are always stuck in debt. We are all slaving. Everywhere. For the urgency of saving money, which has no value outside of buying or building something. How can you use it and save it up forever, to get it to save you from a future you don't know exists. Use it to feed, clothe, build jobs and houses. use it to make more of it on and on and on, forever, renders the concept of it literally absurd..
Thank God the subtitles work
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putting in focus such a disharmonious and unpleasant individual is not doing any good to no one.
just saying.
One of the great minds with a naive heart. The fascist would never let a charismatic people leader to emerge while they are in power.
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Yes, so many homeless, hungry in need of medical care in the USA. There is growing hopelessness…
We don’t need another Trump anywhere in this world, no matter what his politics are. That’s will only convince people that they are voting for some form of evil. We’ve ad it with evil, the greater or the lesser.
We have had our issues, but Trump has really given the US a shithole government.
Older men like us, Žižek, are not allowed to flirt, even ironically. You don't want to be thought of as a pervert, yet you realise how consistently fundamental our sexual personas are, no matter your age. Behave or be judged.