You are indeed one of the great minds I have the pleasure to listen to in my lifetime. Being from Brazil, where the fascism and evangelical fundamentalism are at their heights, giving power and voice to those who were hidden in the "swage," it is revigorating to let you in my house to awake my mind through your videos. Thank you for existing.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Mr. Zizek, Uzbekistan is struggling to achieve a freedom, virtually all people are fearful, can you please talk about how to get rid of fear and teach us how to make good people do bad things in order to oppose bad people to step down. Please! Thanks in advance!
As someone who has participated in the anti-war demonstrations shown at the end of this video at 1:34:51 , and previously in anti-Putin protests since 2015, I must express my thoughts with the utmost respect and profound regret. We are unfortunately too late for these reflections. Russia has become isolated from dialogue but not from the flow of European money into Putin's pockets. Almost all Russians who protest against the war have either left Russia, been imprisoned, or been killed. Those of us who have managed to escape Russia feel only loneliness and utter disillusionment with European civilization. We have lost our home and have no right to find a new one. We risk becoming lost, just as an entire generation did a hundred years ago when they fled the Bolsheviks. The new generations emerging in Russia are being successfully indoctrinated. Now that all restraints have been cast aside, Putin's regime unabashedly employs some of the most vile propaganda techniques ever devised by European civilization. If the European Union is not ready to honestly and permanently sever economic ties with Putin, and if Putin is not defeated now, beware the time when these indoctrinated generations are old enough to wield weapons.
Contextualism is related to the relationship between morality and politics 1. Ethical behavior that creates subsequent political contexts according to Kimberly Hutchings. 2. This is a problem because Jacobus and Martin recently published a textbook on the Humanities that describes the importance of Feminist ethics and the relational theory of value.
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@@michaelwu7678 Oh yeah? Because to me it seems that he is a complete egalitarian and a socialist. While I agree he has his own autonomous right to hold and spread his views, that does not mean that being uninhibited by societal norms means he is correct. It sounds like to me that you have no clue what Nietzsche even stood against or you would not make this claim. And to set things straight I do admire this man’s commitment to his own ideal. I admire this greatly and see a lot of strength in this man, and a strong will. However that does not necessarily mean his way of organizing society would give rise to more great human achievements. His whole purpose is aimed at reducing suffering in the world. Suffering is a part of life and the desire to eradicate it always stems from weakness. If there are some values that you find compelling here then run them by me. The only thing compelling to me is his ability to critique deeply entrenched structures. I think a socialist movement would ultimately fail if it was governed and organized by the weak and ill constituted, which most socialists are.
@jamm_affinity You literally sound like a right-wing bot who just thinks Nietzsche's philosophy is about critiquing collectivism or that socialism is all about the forced equality of people to achieve some utopian vision without suffering. On both accounts, your understanding is severely lacking. The title of this talk is about *freedom.* Freedom doesn't exist in a vacuum, and you can't have great human achievements without freedom. Do you think great men just magically appear by themselves in a primitive cave in the woods? You think Caesar, da Vinci, Goethe, even Nietzsche himself would have made their great accomplishments if they were kept as slaves their whole lives? Yes, they could have overcome themselves and their circumstances, but if your starting point is literally being a slave, you're not gonna get as far as you would otherwise. Socialism, in the Marxian sense, is about freedom, i.e., how can the arbitrary limitations of human life (e.g., access to resources) be *freed up* so that individuals can maximize their potential. There is obviously no self-overcoming or producing of great works if you die as an infant due to poverty.
@jamm_affinity Sorry, you literally sound like a right-wing bot who just thinks Nietzsche's philosophy is about critiquing collectivism or that socialism is all about the forced equality of people to achieve some utopian vision without suffering. On both accounts, your understanding is severely lacking. (Note, I am considering here socialist theory as it is in Žižek/Marx, not in the Utopian Socialists whom Nietzsche justifiably criticized as egalitarians and hedonists. Žižek and Marx clearly do not belong to this latter group. In fact, Marx and Engels severely criticized these Utopian Socialists just like Nietzsche did, especially against Dühring). The title of this talk is about *freedom.* Freedom doesn't exist in a vacuum, and you can't have great human achievements without freedom. Do you think great men just magically appear by themselves in a primitive cave in the woods? You think Caesar, da Vinci, Goethe, even Nietzsche himself would have made their great accomplishments if they were kept as slaves their whole lives? Yes, they *possibly* could have overcome themselves and their circumstances (though Nietzsche most probably would have died early due to his poor health), but if your starting point is literally being a slave, you're not gonna get as far as you would otherwise. Socialism, in the Marxian sense, is about freedom, i.e., how can the arbitrary limitations of human life (e.g., access to resources) be *freed up* so that individuals can maximize their individual potential. It's not about getting rid of suffering (where do you even see Žižek or Marx implying this at all?). There can obviously be no self-overcoming or producing of great works or new values if you die prematurely as an infant due to external circumstances like poverty. How many potentially great men do you think died before they could achieve anything, due to fatal social/material circumstances? Probably hundreds if not thousands in the whole course of history. Nietzsche's criticism of socialism is just when these goals of enabling individual freedom become ossified as ideological instruments to repress that very freedom, especially of potentially great men. The socialist goal to allow men access to the potential means of rising above the herd ironically becomes a tool used (by Nietzsche's archetypal Priest) to maintain the herd. Obviously socialism has fallen prey to this, and many socialists are indeed weak as history shows through the successes of political opportunists, demagogues, dictators, etc. But this is obviously not a critique of socialism itself as it is a critique of how it can be misused and ossified into priestly, repressive values. Marx *explicitly* denounces egalitarianism as naive and oppressive to human achievement. TL:DR, if you actually want to critique Žižek/Marxism on Nietzschean grounds, it seems to me that you need to learn some more about them and Nietzsche too. Now, if you're just trying to criticize Utopian Socialists like Dühring, Fourier, Lassalle, or modern-day Wokeism, then you have a point, but in that case, you'd be on the wrong video.
@@michaelwu7678 And you sound like a leftist bot who stans anyone talking about socialism. Freedom is claimed not given. Always has been. This guy tries to shoehorn the pathetic Christian values (trying to pander to the working class maybe?) into the modernist movements. Any movement which doesn’t transcend the left and right as they are today is ultimately going to fail in my opinion. They both currently suck ass, so maybe we agree on that. What Marx considers to be utopian socialism is when people try to force it upon a society that is not ready for it in a way that is not practical. I would not be surprised if it eventually takes root for a time, but given the philosophy that has inspired this man (even considering he rejects Marx), I’ve not found one single shred of value in it. The abolishment of private property? No private ownership? Constantly talking about the working class, yet modern leftism is further from the working class than ever? Still sounds like revolutionary escapism driven by resentment and power hungry intellectuals who are unhappy with their status in the world.
Stop smoking at any time ? No _professional smoker_ would ever claim such bullshit. I smoke bcs I have no other choice and a catastrophic intervention on my level of health only will bring me off of it. So I submit to my mental and physiological addiction and accept the fate placed upon me by my own naivety. Everything else, as Zizek tried to prove, is purely superficial misconception sprouting from a man, never having been into a real biochemical addiction. Why u want to be more healthy without smoking ? Fear of pain when the disease will break out ? Fear of missing something wonderful presented to you by life ? No - stay with it and die as miserable or good as u can. Sorry, I talk too much.
"Stop smoking at any time ? No professional smoker would ever claim such bullshit". I said that in my mind many times. I smoked 20 to 40 daily..... and one day i stopped :D its not bullshit.
On the outside or even from 1st person perspective (which is still outside the subconscious) it looks like the a change or decision takes place in one day ore one moment, but does it really? And if not, does it matter? I think the answer is no to both. @@johnnyriffmage6917
Probably the clearest and most focused hour plus Zizek talk I’ve ever experienced.
You are indeed one of the great minds I have the pleasure to listen to in my lifetime. Being from Brazil, where the fascism and evangelical fundamentalism are at their heights, giving power and voice to those who were hidden in the "swage," it is revigorating to let you in my house to awake my mind through your videos. Thank you for existing.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Mr. Zizek, Uzbekistan is struggling to achieve a freedom, virtually all people are fearful, can you please talk about how to get rid of fear and teach us how to make good people do bad things in order to oppose bad people to step down. Please! Thanks in advance!
Thank you for this comrade!
As someone who has participated in the anti-war demonstrations shown at the end of this video at 1:34:51 , and previously in anti-Putin protests since 2015, I must express my thoughts with the utmost respect and profound regret. We are unfortunately too late for these reflections. Russia has become isolated from dialogue but not from the flow of European money into Putin's pockets. Almost all Russians who protest against the war have either left Russia, been imprisoned, or been killed. Those of us who have managed to escape Russia feel only loneliness and utter disillusionment with European civilization.
We have lost our home and have no right to find a new one. We risk becoming lost, just as an entire generation did a hundred years ago when they fled the Bolsheviks. The new generations emerging in Russia are being successfully indoctrinated. Now that all restraints have been cast aside, Putin's regime unabashedly employs some of the most vile propaganda techniques ever devised by European civilization. If the European Union is not ready to honestly and permanently sever economic ties with Putin, and if Putin is not defeated now, beware the time when these indoctrinated generations are old enough to wield weapons.
uninterrupted one and half hour of pure zizek .. thanks for posting
oh my god, you ripped this from Great Minds! Thank you so much comrade, been looking for it for a while!
Fascinating but, is he not mixing freedom with personal autonomy? those are very different notions......
He is not. Personal autonomy is part of liberty not freedom
The composer Shostakovich made semantic games with the Soviet authorities with his music.
Contextualism is related to the relationship between morality and politics 1. Ethical behavior that creates subsequent political contexts according to Kimberly Hutchings. 2. This is a problem because Jacobus and Martin recently published a textbook on the Humanities that describes the importance of Feminist ethics and the relational theory of value.
Now i want some fucking fruit juice...
Bravo!
all we need is milk
Where was this video from? It seems like it's from a film
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This dude is ate up with slave morality
Lol he definitely understands Nietzsche much more than you
@@michaelwu7678 Oh yeah? Because to me it seems that he is a complete egalitarian and a socialist. While I agree he has his own autonomous right to hold and spread his views, that does not mean that being uninhibited by societal norms means he is correct.
It sounds like to me that you have no clue what Nietzsche even stood against or you would not make this claim.
And to set things straight I do admire this man’s commitment to his own ideal. I admire this greatly and see a lot of strength in this man, and a strong will. However that does not necessarily mean his way of organizing society would give rise to more great human achievements. His whole purpose is aimed at reducing suffering in the world. Suffering is a part of life and the desire to eradicate it always stems from weakness.
If there are some values that you find compelling here then run them by me. The only thing compelling to me is his ability to critique deeply entrenched structures. I think a socialist movement would ultimately fail if it was governed and organized by the weak and ill constituted, which most socialists are.
@jamm_affinity You literally sound like a right-wing bot who just thinks Nietzsche's philosophy is about critiquing collectivism or that socialism is all about the forced equality of people to achieve some utopian vision without suffering.
On both accounts, your understanding is severely lacking.
The title of this talk is about *freedom.* Freedom doesn't exist in a vacuum, and you can't have great human achievements without freedom. Do you think great men just magically appear by themselves in a primitive cave in the woods?
You think Caesar, da Vinci, Goethe, even Nietzsche himself would have made their great accomplishments if they were kept as slaves their whole lives? Yes, they could have overcome themselves and their circumstances, but if your starting point is literally being a slave, you're not gonna get as far as you would otherwise.
Socialism, in the Marxian sense, is about freedom, i.e., how can the arbitrary limitations of human life (e.g., access to resources) be *freed up* so that individuals can maximize their potential.
There is obviously no self-overcoming or producing of great works if you die as an infant due to poverty.
@jamm_affinity Sorry, you literally sound like a right-wing bot who just thinks Nietzsche's philosophy is about critiquing collectivism or that socialism is all about the forced equality of people to achieve some utopian vision without suffering.
On both accounts, your understanding is severely lacking.
(Note, I am considering here socialist theory as it is in Žižek/Marx, not in the Utopian Socialists whom Nietzsche justifiably criticized as egalitarians and hedonists. Žižek and Marx clearly do not belong to this latter group. In fact, Marx and Engels severely criticized these Utopian Socialists just like Nietzsche did, especially against Dühring).
The title of this talk is about *freedom.* Freedom doesn't exist in a vacuum, and you can't have great human achievements without freedom. Do you think great men just magically appear by themselves in a primitive cave in the woods?
You think Caesar, da Vinci, Goethe, even Nietzsche himself would have made their great accomplishments if they were kept as slaves their whole lives? Yes, they *possibly* could have overcome themselves and their circumstances (though Nietzsche most probably would have died early due to his poor health), but if your starting point is literally being a slave, you're not gonna get as far as you would otherwise.
Socialism, in the Marxian sense, is about freedom, i.e., how can the arbitrary limitations of human life (e.g., access to resources) be *freed up* so that individuals can maximize their individual potential. It's not about getting rid of suffering (where do you even see Žižek or Marx implying this at all?). There can obviously be no self-overcoming or producing of great works or new values if you die prematurely as an infant due to external circumstances like poverty. How many potentially great men do you think died before they could achieve anything, due to fatal social/material circumstances? Probably hundreds if not thousands in the whole course of history.
Nietzsche's criticism of socialism is just when these goals of enabling individual freedom become ossified as ideological instruments to repress that very freedom, especially of potentially great men. The socialist goal to allow men access to the potential means of rising above the herd ironically becomes a tool used (by Nietzsche's archetypal Priest) to maintain the herd. Obviously socialism has fallen prey to this, and many socialists are indeed weak as history shows through the successes of political opportunists, demagogues, dictators, etc.
But this is obviously not a critique of socialism itself as it is a critique of how it can be misused and ossified into priestly, repressive values. Marx *explicitly* denounces egalitarianism as naive and oppressive to human achievement.
TL:DR, if you actually want to critique Žižek/Marxism on Nietzschean grounds, it seems to me that you need to learn some more about them and Nietzsche too.
Now, if you're just trying to criticize Utopian Socialists like Dühring, Fourier, Lassalle, or modern-day Wokeism, then you have a point, but in that case, you'd be on the wrong video.
@@michaelwu7678 And you sound like a leftist bot who stans anyone talking about socialism.
Freedom is claimed not given. Always has been. This guy tries to shoehorn the pathetic Christian values (trying to pander to the working class maybe?) into the modernist movements. Any movement which doesn’t transcend the left and right as they are today is ultimately going to fail in my opinion. They both currently suck ass, so maybe we agree on that.
What Marx considers to be utopian socialism is when people try to force it upon a society that is not ready for it in a way that is not practical. I would not be surprised if it eventually takes root for a time, but given the philosophy that has inspired this man (even considering he rejects Marx), I’ve not found one single shred of value in it. The abolishment of private property? No private ownership? Constantly talking about the working class, yet modern leftism is further from the working class than ever? Still sounds like revolutionary escapism driven by resentment and power hungry intellectuals who are unhappy with their status in the world.
Disoriented
Stop smoking at any time ?
No _professional smoker_ would ever claim such bullshit.
I smoke bcs I have no other choice and a catastrophic intervention on my level of health only will bring me off of it.
So I submit to my mental and physiological addiction and accept the fate placed upon me by my own naivety.
Everything else, as Zizek tried to prove, is purely superficial misconception sprouting from a man, never having been into a real biochemical addiction.
Why u want to be more healthy without smoking ?
Fear of pain when the disease will break out ? Fear of missing something wonderful presented to you by life ?
No - stay with it and die as miserable or good as u can.
Sorry, I talk too much.
Well said I really love ZIZEK and agree on Most things he says but he obviously doesnt know or has Never experienced addiciton..
"Stop smoking at any time ?
No professional smoker would ever claim such bullshit". I said that in my mind many times. I smoked 20 to 40 daily..... and one day i stopped :D its not bullshit.
@@johnnyriffmage6917Well done, sir
On the outside or even from 1st person perspective (which is still outside the subconscious) it looks like the a change or decision takes place in one day ore one moment, but does it really? And if not, does it matter? I think the answer is no to both. @@johnnyriffmage6917
You are totally misunderstanding his point lol.