He's a minor celebrity in his home country and ran for president,he's like Kanye West or Eminem for that culture. His Brother worked in Norway,and that's either his equivalent of bling or a sign he had to struggle in a sense. Really either he means he moved up to having his family be able to work in Norway or they had to go there for the money. 1 to 1 Accuracy.
The Breakfast Club would never have Slavoj on, and if he fought his way into the studio to get there, the conversation wouldn't go anywhere. I'm pretty sure there's a sign on the door that says "Basic bitches only"
Telequacker Unfortunately your right the breakfast club isn’t synonymous with intellectual discussions unfortunately. But he would make a good guess for the The Joe Rogan Experience.
Funny enough David Gornoski recently spoke with Zizek and Angela Yee from Breakfast Club (on separate but recent occasions) th-cam.com/users/DavidGornoskivideos
You forgot academic/scientific disciplines, he's claimed to know quantum physicists. As much as I like Zizek I'm sick of him calling upon these unnamed "friends" as though it lends what he says credence, he should be more specific or have the balls to honest about where he gets his ideas from.
Yunus Shaikh Well, they’re one of the primary groups to actually have their fathers as a part of their daily experience in America, so yeah. The only paternal figures that beat up black youths are the police (when they’re not getting hammered and beating up their own sons).
@@thebrocialist8300 what happened was a sad thing....but that doesnt mean you create biased perspective about whole community....if thugs dont represent whole black community then those cops should not be considered representatives of whole white community
I think the problem with rap is actually caused by capitalism itself. Rap was once a unique cultural act (a resource) that quickly became repackaged and monetised for the consumption of a wider population looking for new sensationalism (the market). It was no longer about the lamenting of the social/economic suffering of a particular ethnic/social group FOR that ethnic/social group, but instead became a cartoonish portrayal of "stealing" sex, money, and drugs away from "the man" (the product). It purposefully became more and more perverse, specifically because of the increasing perversity of the wider population and the increasing sensationalism of the mass media. In short, rappers simply became modern-day minstrels that now entertain the constant perversity of a wider population, all at the expense of the ethnic group it originally came from. Take a resource, make product for a market, then gain profit, NO MATTER THE CONSEQUENCES. Thanks capitalism!
That may be a fair assesment of what zizek is saying but then hes not saying much about what rap means to the black and minority world community and so on, hes not saying much that is useful about rap. Dude's Slovenian and he doesn't know much about poverty up close, nor does he understand the dialectics of rap, resistance, and poetics. Another crazy trotskyite authoritarian in a way. Oh well nobody's perfect.
You commies sure are masters of motivated reasoning. Rap is more violent the more underground it is, not less. More commercial rap is comparatively mild.
This comment right here is what is meant by Nieze when he says in "Thus Zoroastre Spoke", not what psuedo"Social Darwinists" of come to interpret in the most unscientific manner.
@David hill Very astute, David. Remember there are no "conspiracies;" everything that happens is completely known and there are no nefarious actors in the world. What a relief!
He’s so correct in his observations. And I say this as a gay male who grew up identifying more with the feminine, an experience completely cheapened by liberal identity politics.
I remember playing with girl toys when I was younger, but it was only when I was at my cousins house. I always preferred playing with soldiers and robots. Just let kids be kids.
I remember one time I was playing with dolls and I questioned myself ( I was 10) if I should do it, especially because I was in front of others, and suddenly I stopped , I was afraid of criticism and opinions ( I was in front of my father and his friends)
Did I miss something? He talks about how conservatives point out hypocrisy/paradox to some liberal positions, says they are valid, says he's figured out the correct response, and then goes down a path talking about how a person comes to decide the gender they identify with...never addressing the answer to the original topic. I'm confused?
What you missed is that there is a world outside of soundbites and video clips. This was not "content" created for a TH-cam channel where the point is to get relevant clickthroughs by making the content match the title. This is a clip taken from a two-hour academic lecture which is part of a two-lecture series. If you want the full context, listen to the full lectures. If you don't, then enjoy whatever sense you can extract from the soundbite and move on.
What do you expect from a marxian with lacanian tendencies that describes himself as a "hegelian"? He begins with a polemical topic for "left-wingers" that is a bait for edgy teens and "right-wingers " , then babbles a lot with his noisy eschatological antics and finally exposes a confusing synthesis. Treat it like what it is,good entertainment and a first step for more complex topics / fringe ideas.
@@adolexical it really seems youre claiming to know when people are just pretending to know zizek, while also claiming that zizek seems vague and incomprehensible to you. Perhaps its you that has the problem with comprehension?
Doesn't make sense the thing about rappers... because we give the same 'benefit of doubt' to rock, metal, punk, alternative, and really all forms of popular music. It's just people detailing their life experience. For gangster rap it's just a type of warfare they're engaged in, over control, power, money, influence, to do drug dealing. It's interesting.
Benefit of the doubt does not go to punk, metal and alternative musicians. They get steamrolled and seen as barbaric and problematic since they showed up.
After you've broken down all the rules and traditions, someone, out of necessity, will try to discover first principles, from square one, and if they exist, and people preserve them because they find them useful. When you argue all things are merely the expression of succeeding in argumentation, you'll find that even the rhetoric du jour will be following the fundamentals of phenomena if allowed to progress.
childish gambino is maybe almost the biggest clown of them all, fakeness of presented social status in southern hip hop etc. is precisely what makes it genuinely real
@@FafikGrapodol true, plus he allegedly stolen the ideal of "This is America" from some one else. Look up the song, "American Pharaoh". The songs are very similar.
@SC O'Dubhlaoch No, Its about Police brutality and Racism. It is widely believed that Childish Gambino stole the beat and lyric message. The story is nearly identical, and the goal is identical.
Interesting video to post during these times. Are we making excuses for the looting and violence based on these same infantilizing terms? “They can’t help it, they’ve been oppressed.” Is that not treating people like children? Is that robbing individuals of agency and responsibility?
The term I've usually heard people use about this is "the racism of low expectations" or "the soft bigotry of low expectations." I'm not from the US so I would not have known nor expected it to come from a speech 20 years ago by president Bush.
@Ethan Rhodes I saw many videos of the looting and all I can say is that there are no Asians in sight. They're either antifa or blacks looking for a new TV.
Based KC If that were truly the case, then why are so many in the media defending the looting/riots as being “the language of the unheard”? Shouldn’t that make people even more angry about the violence? Also, if you don’t have actual evidence of your claim, then maybe it’s not smart spread unsubstantiated information.
Yes white people were looting too, but they weren't my white people, they're Antifa, and they're both our problem. I think you're on the verge of realising who your real enemies are
@@adolexical He's a much clearer writer than speaker. I read an essay of his recently, "A Glance into the Archives of Islam", where he points out how one of the main differences between Judaism, Christianity and Islam is that in Islam, God is not a "father" figure. I found it pretty darn insightful.
Everything he says can be summarized in one sentence: “the same people who say sex is a social construct, tell you trans people’s gender identity is biological “. He does this often, has a simple non original idea in mind, and passes it as some great idea that needs to be explained with tons of analogies and examples.
You seem intelligent. A lot of people aren't. They would view that as an aggressive, sexist, bigoted remark. Zizek's method of explanation is appealing because he's slowly reels people in with logic and keeps them interested with stories. And then throws in a few philosopher's ideas in there so people can go read up.
Definitely. There have been plenty of moments where he rambled on about things I've seen summed up so well by activists who have far more life experience and have refined these ideas seemingly out of necessity. Zizek is better suited for the young academic or intellectual, not so much for the people in poverty and the working poor.
I think he missuses languge by talking about "unconcius decisons".Making decisions presuposes being concious of making them,otherwise u just do a thing.I understand he explains it by some sort of psycho analisis, but still he's not convincing to me in this clip.
“Does rap’s glorification of violence, egotism and women-as-sex-objects play any role in the suffering of black Americans?” The Left can’t acknowledge this question.
It does but it's an aspect of systemic racism that they refuse to acknowledge because it undermines the agenda and philosophy of white america being the sole perpetrators of the suffering of America. The black community gains great prosperity from hip hop culture and they refuse to publicly admit that it adds to stereotypes and the criminalization of their culture.
@@EmperorsNewWardrobe Liberal America is being manipulated by these new constructs of "racism" because they are, in nature, open minded. These vulnerabilities become target practice for those with an agenda for manipulation and personal gain. Equality and fairness is something to strive for but not if it strips someone of their dignity and psychological well being. Concepts such as white privilege and white fragility are catalysts for baiting people into living up to expectations which are detrimental to human nature. Its a tool for psychological warfare which is creating cognitive dissonance within individuals and our consciousness as a whole. Yes, things need to change but make sure it is for the betterment of everyone rather than certain sects of people who's only desire is to create conflict to sell headlines.
Glühfunke, I can’t really believe you’re serious. Are you saying that unless you’ve got experience of communism, you don’t deserve to criticise Maoism, you know the culture that killed hundreds of millions? Plus, I don’t see what’s wrong with generalisations if they’re accurate
@Pete Haskell In it he writes about the advancement of new form of Communism with this current pandemic, not that of old Soviet Communism, but a new form of solidarity whose some features are even propagated and practiced by Capitalist nations like the USA and UK. Zizek also writes about barbarism appropriated by the current political system e.g Italy planning to wipe out old citizens bcoz of their anxiety by the contagious virus. I like how he writes by saying " Everyone is a socialist during a crisis" and talks about more radical change in the institutions like healthcare, global coordination among the states and so on. To make it short, his last chapter " Communism or Barbarism as simple as that" provoke the readers in a crucial way to find out an alternative political system which has more than what we have now. Lastly, it also has some suggestions on how to balance your daily routine and mental harmony
Nihal Mangrati Isn’t that what he always is on about? His ‘communism’ is basically some amorphous multilateral body that just magically solves shit. It just transcends the contradictions of Capital whenever they reach a breaking point, but he can’t get any more specific than that.
That rappers are wrongly allowed to have a lower moral standard. They should have the same standard as everyone else, otherwise it's racist, because it's like saying they are less human so they shouldn't be held to the same standards
@@harunhernandez we are always going down the rabbit hole of circularity. it becomes nonlinear quickly, but activists would never concede that. I decided to brutely call it out as the last BS bingo I've been waiting for. this whole way of reasoning. people are where they are. standard is a collectivist notion, but there are different collectives or communities with different standards. its colonial. how can we impose our standards on others that don't want it? the circularity is rarely expressed, so I too have difficulty to put it in words, though it is 100% clear. some black people say, they want to fight the law because the law is structurally racist in a number of aspects. the law and its corrupt ways of enforcement keep them at a level where they also cannot reach a higher moral standard. they die because they have no access to expensive medicine etc. etc.. what about that? the rappers describe a reality, mostly from the inside. so, should we punish them? WTF there is huge diversity. 50cent has little to do with krs one or talib kweli. some are just bad guys making money on sensation, swimming with the stream of big pop business. and this business protects its cash cows to some extent. the lie is in neglecting the asynchronous historical time line. when people live in a different phase or century, how can we apply the same rules on them? this is also true for many white or asian regions. the colonial approach to bring them culture, enlightenment, education, morals, in a messianic way, has rarely ever worked. people give lip-service quickly, when they see that the other is stronger. but with their hearts deeply, they piss on them. it is not THEIR development nor representation. what did always happen? they got punished, and many became terrorists, and I am with them in MY heart. because this is colonial, too.
@Frederick Röders I would not put them on a pedestal, but some just talk brute reality. they are mainly the messengers. the creators of the situation, that's a more complex thing. just look at muslim rap in germany, it one criticises them, the circular spiraling starts immediately. as if the germans have to be punished by the emergence of this type of art and message, or whatever.
black people were deprived education for centuries. but some long-term aspects by education are always working through the "family" or dynasty. the parents have to be in. you know, they are academics etc. so the children not only receive what they are offered in the private school, college etc., but also already what their parents had received in their academic education, and in their elite lives. and by purpose, blacks should never have that, so said the slave holders. and now, the blacks get reprimanded because many of them suffer from a lower level of morals and education. that's what I mean with BS bingo. the question about how we should apply standards on them, or how it is racist to not apply these standards, is intellectually dishonest and manipulative, and a red herring.
Except sexuality is predetermined. The issue is that biology is not a hard line and has a great deal of variation in it, and is subject to social pressures. But that doesn't mean people who have no sexual desire for the the same or the opposite gender got there because of symbolism. They're just born that way.
huhuhuhu at least rappers don't tell their fandom to drink bleach and kill themselves; and if they did the fans would be angry instead of following this *advice*
I increasingly see Zizek as a kind of elitist, who does not have any respect for low class/low education people. In my mind, the only way to elevate the lower classes is through good education for everyone. What I would like to hear from him, is that the goal of the left should be the elevation of the lower class through improved education and how that could and should be done. And why it would benefit everyone. Zizek, put your brain to some good use and put some thought into education. And get some up-to-date information about that. Ask some young people about videogames, online-learning and game-fiction of education. Talk to game developers. What does it mean to catch a student's attention in the 21st century? How can a teacher be respected by their students in the 21st century? who are the true educators in the age of youtube?
I don't think that "authenticity" is the justification for why black people can use the N-word and white people can't. Rather it's because the meaning of the N-word depends on who is saying it in what context. This is the same for all language actually. See Ludwig Wittgenstein's language games. The big conservative misunderstanding is to assume that the meaning of words is absolute, context-independent. Similar trends can be observed for example in bible interpretation or religious scripture interpretation in general. Naive conservative interpreters take everything literally and absolute without taking into consideration the historical context where the words were written. Also rap music is an art form, which provides yet another context. Cultural rules seem paradoxical, when you ignore context. As Jordan Peterson says, the conservative personality likes clear, fixed rules as an orientation and is averse to anything that challenges those rules or that creates ambiguity and inconsistency in those rules. Maybe it's not the conservative personality though, maybe it's people who are too stupid to deal with the complexities and ambiguities of cultural rules. Conservatism might be a form of cognitive deficiency, an inability to deal with social complexities. Blaming rap music for the disintegration of the black family is about as stupid as blaming video games for school shootings.
@@thechadeuropeanfederalist893 "Being white" is not context. It's your absurd subjective categorization. Because the very concept of a man's race is absurd in biological terms. It's a phenotype and nothing more. Moreover, not all people of European descent should be categorized along with the descendants of the slave owners who mostly live in the Americas and some western European nations. What about the descendants of the slave owners of African descent who are many more than is commonly believed? Can they use this word?
@@AggelosKyriou Of course it is context and the meaning of language depends on who says it. For example: If someone who is white says "i am black" it is false. If someone who is black says "i am black" it is true. The same phrase becomes true or false depending on who says it.
You want to argue about the rationality of a cultural rule and whether it is historical accurate etc.? That's a category mistake. Cultural rules evolve not because they are rational. You can at most try to figure out how the rule evolved. Culture isn't rational and doesn't have to be. Of course the N-word is being perceived as offensive as a consequence of cultural conditioning just like any other insulting expression. Fact is that it is not perceived as insulting when black people say it to each other. Whether that's rational or not is irrelevant.
I used to think I was racist, but then I realized it was just black Americans that annoyed me. And it's nothing to do with racism, but more to do with Americanism. The religiosity, the self righteousness, the gaudy shows of wealth, the superficiality etc etc, Of course these are annoying traits shared by white Americans, but less pronounced. With black America it's like hyper American, America on steroids But maybe that's where the racism stems from, white Americans see their own reflection in black America, and recoil at what they see. It's not that black Americans are resented for their difference, as much as their similarity - for being too American. I suppose Africans are naturally flamboyant, so add that flamboyance to American flamboyance - and you've got flamboyancy on stilts
@lew bronstein But ask yourself why America is more racist than France, Britain, maybe even South Africa etc. What is the core antagonism - why did American whites hang on to slavery for so long? Even fight a war to preserve it?? I think it's too easy to just put the blame on slavery. Jamaicans were slaves, Africans.were slaves in the Arab World, Brasil. Colombia etc but the antagonism doesn't run so deep. I think something deeper is at play in the US, a kind of projection. White America's suppressed self disgust seems to be projected onto Black America. And for it's part Black America seems to sense this unease, and presents exaggerated, often grotesque images of decadence, egoism, sexual prowess etc. Rap being the classic example of such.But ultimately Rap is about as American as it gets, America on steroids.
@lew bronstein why is it I find British black people to be generally sound, Jamaicans a bit ott sometimes, but endearing, no problem with Africans but American black people annoy me? Of course that's a generalization, sure there are millions of black Americans that don't annoy me. Maybe it's just the media, and the representation of American black people, But I read a book about anti-semitism in Germany, and how Jews really simulated to Germany better than any other country in Europe. To the point where Germanism and Judaism seemed one and the same, and that closeness of culture, rather than otherness led to Germany being the most anti-semitic country in Europe. It's not that Jews were resented for not assimilating to Germany, but, on the contrary - they assimilated too well. They became a reflection of everything the Germans didn't like about themselves. It's like a guy in a cemetery talking to his father's grave, he looks up and sees another guy talking to a grave, he shakes his head - and says weirdo.
You people may have a point about Black Americans being Eurocentric, though to me it appears that they are more like believers in American exceptionalism. And on saying this I have been called 'White' by Black Americans (when I am not even white passing) and Third Worldist by White Americans (I am from some Third World country).
@@sahelichowdhury Black Americans have little or nothing in common with the rest of the African diaspora - and everything in common with White America. Many White Americans, not all by any means, but I'd say a majority - love and celebrate the alpha dog. I mean they make John Wayne the symbol of the US army, they get Bruce Willis to make speeches after 911 - or then you've got George Bush using all this language from Western movies - about get out of dodge, smoke 'em out etc etc. And needless to say the cult of Trump But when Black people act in the same way, it's seen by the same white people as cockiness, boorishness, arrogance, ostentation. It's like/American black culture holds up a mirror to the white culture, and the whites don't like what they see in themselves. So I'd say the antagonism toward black culture is really a projection. It's like the old proverb about the pot calling the kettle black " Oho said the pot to the kettle You are dirty ugly and black Sure no one would think you were metal except when given a crack Not so! not so! said the kettle to the pot It's your own dirty image you see So I am so clean - without blemish or blot That your blackness is mirrored in me"
Zizek needs younger black friends. For you see, black Boomers are not fond of young (poor) Black people and their culture. There is also something to be said in favor of "owning" a term. Having an exclusive right to use a term that historically was used to demean who and what you are in order to redefine it. I am guessing that black rappers understand the term in different ways from -let's say- people of the baby-boomer generation.
I think the modern understanding is more along the lines of "a person that struggling like me and and defined by bad circumstances, like me" - though I may be wildly off. I am whiter than brioche bread on the inside.
@@DimiShimi And how are you on the outside? Anyway, not important. In many countries of the world, among many communities, people are trying to reclaim derogatory terms that were previously used to insult them. If the insulting power is taken away from a word then it no longer remains insulting, that is the idea. I suppose that is similar among Black people of the United States also?
My point exactly, when black people use the N word, it is supposed to be about taking the term back and reminding each other of their history. (At least, I think that is what they are supposedly doing.) This is probably problematic on several levels, since they assert their identity through the lens of racism. (Master slave dialectic and so further and so on). But it is nothing to be scoffed at.
Nah Zizek can be taken out of context easily with 5 minute clips, his lectures are one long sentence that can not be bit and pieced or you miss the all important context Zizek is a philosopher on the left, he said it himself If a philosopher can be taken out of context in a short clip easily, they’d your fault for falling for the manipulation, it doesn’t rebrand the person speaking
Here’s a challenge for people who think this guy has any value: try to describe one of his unique ideas here in a few sentences without reference to another philosopher or known philosophical word/phrase, and without saying what he’s against. Plain language only.
Understanding that something is a social construct helps us to reframe our thinking and break down what is an inherent truth and what can change depending on our way of thinking or culture. It’s very useful in doing any philosophy or science.
@@kielysmith3233 hmm, I need to clarify my statement. Gender is a social construct based on a self-truth or as you call it inherent truth but inherent truth is not a “social truth”, though it may reflect a socially accepted truth, I don't it is a very useful truth. But then again, what do I know? 😬
he’s wrong here lol. wtf does he think rock music was then? its not because “black people are patronized”, popular youth music is always generally counter-cultural
You do know Zizek doesn't understand art or the mystical experience right? That is a Buddha I see? He has a lot of good things to say but is head in lost in books
@Terminator X That's not my point. Zizek is only words and words are limited. He doesn't have a proper understanding of reality if he doesn't have the mystical experience. Anyway my question wasn't to you and I'm not looking for an argument/debate.
If you want to get Zizek's 'I WOULD PREFER NOT TO' t-shirt you can do so here:
i-would-prefer-not-to.com
“I’ll take you to the candy shop, and so and so on”.
"Bitches ain't shit, etc, etc."
Deutsche Dogge “and here it is more problematic, I’ll let you lick the er, er lollipop, in a good, old-fashioned authoritarian sense”.
Title of Zizek's debut mixtape
Genuinely had a good LOL to this!!
Zizek X Mobb Deep crossover would be something
I am much more of a pessimist here
Niels Bohr
You know *sniff*
"I have a vulgar joke about that! The story goes like this: there is one slovenian farmer…" and so on, and so on
And so on and so on
Zizeck is a rapper, his sniveling is just adlibs
Fo' real doe
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Intellectuals are just Rappers for The Former USSR.
He's a minor celebrity in his home country and ran for president,he's like Kanye West or Eminem for that culture. His Brother worked in Norway,and that's either his equivalent of bling or a sign he had to struggle in a sense. Really either he means he moved up to having his family be able to work in Norway or they had to go there for the money. 1 to 1 Accuracy.
We need to get Slavoj on the Hot 97 Breakfast Club!
Charlamagne would be such a racist asshole to him
The Breakfast Club would never have Slavoj on, and if he fought his way into the studio to get there, the conversation wouldn't go anywhere. I'm pretty sure there's a sign on the door that says "Basic bitches only"
Telequacker Unfortunately your right the breakfast club isn’t synonymous with intellectual discussions unfortunately. But he would make a good guess for the The Joe Rogan Experience.
Funny enough David Gornoski recently spoke with Zizek and Angela Yee from Breakfast Club (on separate but recent occasions) th-cam.com/users/DavidGornoskivideos
It’s seems that Zizek has a lot of friends.
Across the racial,global and political spectrum
Being friends with someone with a different political opinion? Impossible!
Makes a better story to say you know a person as a starter ^^
He's quite the gregarious fella
neththom999 it’s the Hegelian in him, and so on and so on.
You forgot academic/scientific disciplines, he's claimed to know quantum physicists. As much as I like Zizek I'm sick of him calling upon these unnamed "friends" as though it lends what he says credence, he should be more specific or have the balls to honest about where he gets his ideas from.
Stop looking at me,mr Zizek, you are scaring me!
We need to hear from these black friends Slavoj is always talking about
Mentions rap for 10 seconds, click bait title
this guy gets it
Seriously! And I actually wanted to hear about that since I like rap.
The whole thing is about the rap concept
His face looks like my hammered dad about to beat me up lol
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white dads dont beath their child....do they?
Yunus Shaikh Well, they’re one of the primary groups to actually have their fathers as a part of their daily experience in America, so yeah. The only paternal figures that beat up black youths are the police (when they’re not getting hammered and beating up their own sons).
@@thebrocialist8300 what happened was a sad thing....but that doesnt mean you create biased perspective about whole community....if thugs dont represent whole black community then those cops should not be considered representatives of whole white community
@@vg1024 you are a bot
I think the problem with rap is actually caused by capitalism itself. Rap was once a unique cultural act (a resource) that quickly became repackaged and monetised for the consumption of a wider population looking for new sensationalism (the market). It was no longer about the lamenting of the social/economic suffering of a particular ethnic/social group FOR that ethnic/social group, but instead became a cartoonish portrayal of "stealing" sex, money, and drugs away from "the man" (the product). It purposefully became more and more perverse, specifically because of the increasing perversity of the wider population and the increasing sensationalism of the mass media. In short, rappers simply became modern-day minstrels that now entertain the constant perversity of a wider population, all at the expense of the ethnic group it originally came from. Take a resource, make product for a market, then gain profit, NO MATTER THE CONSEQUENCES. Thanks capitalism!
You've explained this beautifully!
That may be a fair assesment of what zizek is saying but then hes not saying much about what rap means to the black and minority world community and so on, hes not saying much that is useful about rap. Dude's Slovenian and he doesn't know much about poverty up close, nor does he understand the dialectics of rap, resistance, and poetics. Another crazy trotskyite authoritarian in a way. Oh well nobody's perfect.
DS A Would like to hear about the dialectics of rap.
You commies sure are masters of motivated reasoning.
Rap is more violent the more underground it is, not less. More commercial rap is comparatively mild.
This comment right here is what is meant by Nieze when he says in "Thus Zoroastre Spoke", not what psuedo"Social Darwinists" of come to interpret in the most unscientific manner.
Zizek would love Immortal Technique
Absolutely! Wonder if they know each other!?...
@David hill 'If you take a dick, you can take a joke'- Immortal tech
Cmon Zizek would love him
@David hill Very astute, David. Remember there are no "conspiracies;" everything that happens is completely known and there are no nefarious actors in the world. What a relief!
@Lite-Wing Gift yes most underrated!!
And Paris
0:43 need to sample that and make a track
Will do. I'll loop it for a hook.
I'd love to hear some Slovenian gangster rap one of these days.
He’s so correct in his observations. And I say this as a gay male who grew up identifying more with the feminine, an experience completely cheapened by liberal identity politics.
I kinda flirted with it when I was younger. I would say I'm bi,he's still right though.
Lmao 50 Cent
He is out like for 15 years
@Lasse Givoni wait... do you think zizek uploaded this video him self?
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Still the best hooks are in his songs
He should be about 58 cents right now due to inflation.
@Lasse Givoni .... doesnt make your first commend any better tho 😂
@Lasse Givoni agree. 50th was and is a legend 👍
I want to have as much friends as he has
It's astonishing. He's very friendly and lovable too.
I remember playing with girl toys when I was younger, but it was only when I was at my cousins house. I always preferred playing with soldiers and robots. Just let kids be kids.
Love the way he uses the name Kant. It's the proper british way of pronunciation.
There is an American way?
Kant was German
oh ffs, can you match the pronounciation of his name to a certain colorful word in english language that describes woman's genitals?
It is a German name, debil
He should do rap himself.
he would literally spit the rhymes.
He's constantly beat boxing anyway
existensial comics wrote a mix between him and cant touch this
Lil Zizek - Hegel in the Hood (Kant diss track)
That would be amazing. Don't forget. He has the N word pass.
No old soviet joke in this one :( Maybe he already told it in another talk?
Old stalinist joke
Spitting straight facts; in your face
I remember one time I was playing with dolls and I questioned myself ( I was 10) if I should do it, especially because I was in front of others, and suddenly I stopped , I was afraid of criticism and opinions ( I was in front of my father and his friends)
Well, that means you're more feminine unfortunately for you. What's wrong about that? Well, you're a man.
Good.
Lol these assholes are the issue^
It may be a problem, but it is and it always be like this and no repression can change it I guess is nature
Did I miss something? He talks about how conservatives point out hypocrisy/paradox to some liberal positions, says they are valid, says he's figured out the correct response, and then goes down a path talking about how a person comes to decide the gender they identify with...never addressing the answer to the original topic. I'm confused?
What you missed is that there is a world outside of soundbites and video clips. This was not "content" created for a TH-cam channel where the point is to get relevant clickthroughs by making the content match the title. This is a clip taken from a two-hour academic lecture which is part of a two-lecture series. If you want the full context, listen to the full lectures. If you don't, then enjoy whatever sense you can extract from the soundbite and move on.
But if the question is about whether the title is clickbait, then I absolutely agree that it is. Nothing to do with Zizek though.
What do you expect from a marxian with lacanian tendencies that describes himself as a "hegelian"? He begins with a polemical topic for "left-wingers" that is a bait for edgy teens and "right-wingers " , then babbles a lot with his noisy eschatological antics and finally exposes a confusing synthesis. Treat it like what it is,good entertainment and a first step for more complex topics / fringe ideas.
@@Dololord Right, Hegel and Lacan only speak confusing nonsense right?
What do you expect from youtube comments? Usually posturing.
@@adolexical it really seems youre claiming to know when people are just pretending to know zizek, while also claiming that zizek seems vague and incomprehensible to you. Perhaps its you that has the problem with comprehension?
Doesn't make sense the thing about rappers... because we give the same 'benefit of doubt' to rock, metal, punk, alternative, and really all forms of popular music. It's just people detailing their life experience. For gangster rap it's just a type of warfare they're engaged in, over control, power, money, influence, to do drug dealing. It's interesting.
Benefit of the doubt does not go to punk, metal and alternative musicians. They get steamrolled and seen as barbaric and problematic since they showed up.
@@RextheRebel better a surrogate riot on stage than one that smashes windows at the malls .•°
After you've broken down all the rules and traditions, someone, out of necessity, will try to discover first principles, from square one, and if they exist, and people preserve them because they find them useful. When you argue all things are merely the expression of succeeding in argumentation, you'll find that even the rhetoric du jour will be following the fundamentals of phenomena if allowed to progress.
What do you mean?
@TheKhal : nice said , however you're an optimist .
Is there progress ? .•°
This video came up the moment that I finished listening to "This is America" by Childish Gambino.
it's nice that the world still has some beautiful coincidences
noidontlikeu yeah, “coincidence”.
childish gambino is maybe almost the biggest clown of them all, fakeness of presented social status in southern hip hop etc. is precisely what makes it genuinely real
@@FafikGrapodol true, plus he allegedly stolen the ideal of "This is America" from some one else. Look up the song, "American Pharaoh". The songs are very similar.
@SC O'Dubhlaoch No, Its about Police brutality and Racism. It is widely believed that Childish Gambino stole the beat and lyric message. The story is nearly identical, and the goal is identical.
Is this zizek's personal channel 💀
nope
Shout out to raphael samuel (he hasn't yet found a lawyer to take on the case [for suing his parents])
Interesting video to post during these times. Are we making excuses for the looting and violence based on these same infantilizing terms?
“They can’t help it, they’ve been oppressed.” Is that not treating people like children? Is that robbing individuals of agency and responsibility?
No because it's mostly white people looting
The term I've usually heard people use about this is "the racism of low expectations" or "the soft bigotry of low expectations." I'm not from the US so I would not have known nor expected it to come from a speech 20 years ago by president Bush.
@Ethan Rhodes I saw many videos of the looting and all I can say is that there are no Asians in sight.
They're either antifa or blacks looking for a new TV.
Based KC If that were truly the case, then why are so many in the media defending the looting/riots as being “the language of the unheard”? Shouldn’t that make people even more angry about the violence? Also, if you don’t have actual evidence of your claim, then maybe it’s not smart spread unsubstantiated information.
Yes white people were looting too, but they weren't my white people, they're Antifa, and they're both our problem. I think you're on the verge of realising who your real enemies are
Somtimes I think of Slavo Zìzek as white Uncle Ruckus (no relations).
Was shocked to hear a celebrity intellectual mention Burlington, Vermont! Somewhat in my backyard!
I have no idea what Zizek is talking about here.
@@adolexical that's not true usually he makes some sense but this one is just rambling.
@@adolexical He's a much clearer writer than speaker. I read an essay of his recently, "A Glance into the Archives of Islam", where he points out how one of the main differences between Judaism, Christianity and Islam is that in Islam, God is not a "father" figure. I found it pretty darn insightful.
Finally someone I agree with on this
You know it's the s n double o p - d o double g y -d... and so on and so on
The only thing I can understand is so on and so on.
@David hill I wasn't speaking from a comprehension standpoint, I literally meant I can't make out a majority of the words he spits out.
Everything he says can be summarized in one sentence: “the same people who say sex is a social construct, tell you trans people’s gender identity is biological “.
He does this often, has a simple non original idea in mind, and passes it as some great idea that needs to be explained with tons of analogies and examples.
You missed a whole lot of sniveling and so on and so on
You seem intelligent. A lot of people aren't. They would view that as an aggressive, sexist, bigoted remark. Zizek's method of explanation is appealing because he's slowly reels people in with logic and keeps them interested with stories. And then throws in a few philosopher's ideas in there so people can go read up.
Definitely. There have been plenty of moments where he rambled on about things I've seen summed up so well by activists who have far more life experience and have refined these ideas seemingly out of necessity.
Zizek is better suited for the young academic or intellectual, not so much for the people in poverty and the working poor.
How can I be responsible for a 'decision ' I made unconsciously? Answers on a postcard..
Polítically correct is puritanism.
Words is words 🙄
@@BlueRangerMartin Words matter!
They are changing the definition of political correctness, which is scarier.
1:50 on rappers and the rest on transgenderism
Drunk dad: Stares
Michael Myers: Stares
Michael Myers a Russian... 😑😐😑😐
I think he missuses languge by talking about "unconcius decisons".Making decisions presuposes being concious of making them,otherwise u just do a thing.I understand he explains it by some sort of psycho analisis, but still he's not convincing to me in this clip.
Laziest Zizek arguments ive heard
A good answer? For exemple: NO!
the way he lookin at me😏
He goes into anti-natalism, love that
When slavoj zizek says "conservative" he means everyone who's not slavoj zizek.
“Does rap’s glorification of violence, egotism and women-as-sex-objects play any role in the suffering of black Americans?”
The Left can’t acknowledge this question.
It does but it's an aspect of systemic racism that they refuse to acknowledge because it undermines the agenda and philosophy of white america being the sole perpetrators of the suffering of America. The black community gains great prosperity from hip hop culture and they refuse to publicly admit that it adds to stereotypes and the criminalization of their culture.
Gerard Garone, exactly. The accounting scales only work on one side, it seems.
@@EmperorsNewWardrobe Liberal America is being manipulated by these new constructs of "racism" because they are, in nature, open minded. These vulnerabilities become target practice for those with an agenda for manipulation and personal gain. Equality and fairness is something to strive for but not if it strips someone of their dignity and psychological well being. Concepts such as white privilege and white fragility are catalysts for baiting people into living up to expectations which are detrimental to human nature. Its a tool for psychological warfare which is creating cognitive dissonance within individuals and our consciousness as a whole. Yes, things need to change but make sure it is for the betterment of everyone rather than certain sects of people who's only desire is to create conflict to sell headlines.
Glühfunke, be my guest! As far as I can see, these things are inexcusable. Feel free to tell me how I’m mistaken
Glühfunke, I can’t really believe you’re serious. Are you saying that unless you’ve got experience of communism, you don’t deserve to criticise Maoism, you know the culture that killed hundreds of millions? Plus, I don’t see what’s wrong with generalisations if they’re accurate
I don't know what you've heard about me
Did u guys read his recent work " Pandemic, Covid-19 Shakes the world"?
@Pete Haskell Sorry?
Nihal Mangrati Pete is asking if you could summarize some of it.
@Pete Haskell In it he writes about the advancement of new form of Communism with this current pandemic, not that of old Soviet Communism, but a new form of solidarity whose some features are even propagated and practiced by Capitalist nations like the USA and UK.
Zizek also writes about barbarism appropriated by the current political system e.g Italy planning to wipe out old citizens bcoz of their anxiety by the contagious virus.
I like how he writes by saying " Everyone is a socialist during a crisis" and talks about more radical change in the institutions like healthcare, global coordination among the states and so on.
To make it short, his last chapter " Communism or Barbarism as simple as that" provoke the readers in a crucial way to find out an alternative political system which has more than what we have now. Lastly, it also has some suggestions on how to balance your daily routine and mental harmony
@Pete Haskell Pandmic, Coronavirus shaked the world
Nihal Mangrati Isn’t that what he always is on about? His ‘communism’ is basically some amorphous multilateral body that just magically solves shit. It just transcends the contradictions of Capital whenever they reach a breaking point, but he can’t get any more specific than that.
Slavoj "some of my friends are black" Zizek
Right
No, it's Slavoj "some of my black friends" Zizek. Big (little) Hegelian difference!
So...errrr...excuse my ignorance, but what do conservatives get right about rappers? I didn't catch that at all.
That rappers are wrongly allowed to have a lower moral standard. They should have the same standard as everyone else, otherwise it's racist, because it's like saying they are less human so they shouldn't be held to the same standards
@@harunhernandez I see. And (even as a long time fan of rap music/hip-hop culture), I agree actually. Thanks man.
@@harunhernandez we are always going down the rabbit hole of circularity. it becomes nonlinear quickly, but activists would never concede that.
I decided to brutely call it out as the last BS bingo I've been waiting for. this whole way of reasoning.
people are where they are. standard is a collectivist notion, but there are different collectives or communities with different standards. its colonial. how can we impose our standards on others that don't want it?
the circularity is rarely expressed, so I too have difficulty to put it in words, though it is 100% clear.
some black people say, they want to fight the law because the law is structurally racist in a number of aspects. the law and its corrupt ways of enforcement keep them at a level where they also cannot reach a higher moral standard. they die because they have no access to expensive medicine etc. etc.. what about that?
the rappers describe a reality, mostly from the inside. so, should we punish them? WTF
there is huge diversity. 50cent has little to do with krs one or talib kweli. some are just bad guys making money on sensation, swimming with the stream of big pop business. and this business protects its cash cows to some extent.
the lie is in neglecting the asynchronous historical time line. when people live in a different phase or century, how can we apply the same rules on them? this is also true for many white or asian regions. the colonial approach to bring them culture, enlightenment, education, morals, in a messianic way, has rarely ever worked. people give lip-service quickly, when they see that the other is stronger. but with their hearts deeply, they piss on them. it is not THEIR development nor representation. what did always happen? they got punished, and many became terrorists, and I am with them in MY heart. because this is colonial, too.
@Frederick Röders I would not put them on a pedestal, but some just talk brute reality. they are mainly the messengers. the creators of the situation, that's a more complex thing.
just look at muslim rap in germany, it one criticises them, the circular spiraling starts immediately. as if the germans have to be punished by the emergence of this type of art and message, or whatever.
black people were deprived education for centuries. but some long-term aspects by education are always working through the "family" or dynasty. the parents have to be in. you know, they are academics etc. so the children not only receive what they are offered in the private school, college etc., but also already what their parents had received in their academic education, and in their elite lives. and by purpose, blacks should never have that, so said the slave holders.
and now, the blacks get reprimanded because many of them suffer from a lower level of morals and education. that's what I mean with BS bingo. the question about how we should apply standards on them, or how it is racist to not apply these standards, is intellectually dishonest and manipulative, and a red herring.
Except sexuality is predetermined. The issue is that biology is not a hard line and has a great deal of variation in it, and is subject to social pressures. But that doesn't mean people who have no sexual desire for the the same or the opposite gender got there because of symbolism. They're just born that way.
huhuhuhu at least rappers don't tell their fandom to drink bleach and kill themselves; and if they did the fans would be angry instead of following this *advice*
One of the few times Slavoj is over his depth
Or you are... since you can not compute. NPC
Pop will eat it's self
I increasingly see Zizek as a kind of elitist, who does not have any respect for low class/low education people.
In my mind, the only way to elevate the lower classes is through good education for everyone. What I would like to hear from him, is that the goal of the left should be the elevation of the lower class through improved education and how that could and should be done. And why it would benefit everyone.
Zizek, put your brain to some good use and put some thought into education.
And get some up-to-date information about that. Ask some young people about videogames, online-learning and game-fiction of education. Talk to game developers. What does it mean to catch a student's attention in the 21st century? How can a teacher be respected by their students in the 21st century? who are the true educators in the age of youtube?
Send me a message if you want to talk, we can exchange some customary insults, to get you relaxed.
He is not immune to his Eurocentric bias, but he definitely respects the lower class more than patronizing liberals with welfare policies
@@bdstudios6088 Go touch some grass.
what does this have to do with the title?
What are you expecting ?
It's Zizek and title might be very well click bait 🎣°
ZIZEK - No1
I don't think that "authenticity" is the justification for why black people can use the N-word and white people can't.
Rather it's because the meaning of the N-word depends on who is saying it in what context.
This is the same for all language actually. See Ludwig Wittgenstein's language games. The big conservative misunderstanding is to assume that the meaning of words is absolute, context-independent. Similar trends can be observed for example in bible interpretation or religious scripture interpretation in general. Naive conservative interpreters take everything literally and absolute without taking into consideration the historical context where the words were written.
Also rap music is an art form, which provides yet another context.
Cultural rules seem paradoxical, when you ignore context.
As Jordan Peterson says, the conservative personality likes clear, fixed rules as an orientation and is averse to anything that challenges those rules or that creates ambiguity and inconsistency in those rules. Maybe it's not the conservative personality though, maybe it's people who are too stupid to deal with the complexities and ambiguities of cultural rules. Conservatism might be a form of cognitive deficiency, an inability to deal with social complexities.
Blaming rap music for the disintegration of the black family is about as stupid as blaming video games for school shootings.
Niggah. Wait whuut? im white and i can use it...
@Erni Muja
You being white is part of the context.
@@thechadeuropeanfederalist893 "Being white" is not context. It's your absurd subjective categorization. Because the very concept of a man's race is absurd in biological terms. It's a phenotype and nothing more. Moreover, not all people of European descent should be categorized along with the descendants of the slave owners who mostly live in the Americas and some western European nations.
What about the descendants of the slave owners of African descent who are many more than is commonly believed?
Can they use this word?
@@AggelosKyriou
Of course it is context and the meaning of language depends on who says it.
For example:
If someone who is white says "i am black" it is false.
If someone who is black says "i am black" it is true.
The same phrase becomes true or false depending on who says it.
You want to argue about the rationality of a cultural rule and whether it is historical accurate etc.? That's a category mistake. Cultural rules evolve not because they are rational.
You can at most try to figure out how the rule evolved.
Culture isn't rational and doesn't have to be.
Of course the N-word is being perceived as offensive as a consequence of cultural conditioning just like any other insulting expression.
Fact is that it is not perceived as insulting when black people say it to each other.
Whether that's rational or not is irrelevant.
I used to think I was racist, but then I realized it was just black Americans that annoyed me.
And it's nothing to do with racism, but more to do with Americanism.
The religiosity, the self righteousness, the gaudy shows of wealth, the superficiality etc etc,
Of course these are annoying traits shared by white Americans, but less pronounced. With black America it's like hyper American, America on steroids
But maybe that's where the racism stems from, white Americans see their own reflection in black America, and recoil at what they see. It's not that black Americans are resented for their difference, as much as their similarity - for being too American.
I suppose Africans are naturally flamboyant, so add that flamboyance to American flamboyance - and you've got flamboyancy on stilts
@lew bronstein But ask yourself why America is more racist than France, Britain, maybe even South Africa etc.
What is the core antagonism - why did American whites hang on to slavery for so long? Even fight a war to preserve it??
I think it's too easy to just put the blame on slavery. Jamaicans were slaves, Africans.were slaves in the Arab World, Brasil. Colombia etc but the antagonism doesn't run so deep.
I think something deeper is at play in the US, a kind of projection.
White America's suppressed self disgust seems to be projected onto Black America. And for it's part Black America seems to sense this unease, and presents exaggerated, often grotesque images of decadence, egoism, sexual prowess etc.
Rap being the classic example of such.But ultimately Rap is about as American as it gets, America on steroids.
@lew bronstein why is it I find British black people to be generally sound, Jamaicans a bit ott sometimes, but endearing, no problem with Africans but American black people annoy me? Of course that's a generalization, sure there are millions of black Americans that don't annoy me. Maybe it's just the media, and the representation of American black people,
But I read a book about anti-semitism in Germany, and how Jews really simulated to Germany better than any other country in Europe. To the point where Germanism and Judaism seemed one and the same, and that closeness of culture, rather than otherness led to Germany being the most anti-semitic country in Europe. It's not that Jews were resented for not assimilating to Germany, but, on the contrary - they assimilated too well. They became a reflection of everything the Germans didn't like about themselves.
It's like a guy in a cemetery talking to his father's grave, he looks up and sees another guy talking to a grave, he shakes his head - and says weirdo.
You people may have a point about Black Americans being Eurocentric, though to me it appears that they are more like believers in American exceptionalism. And on saying this I have been called 'White' by Black Americans (when I am not even white passing) and Third Worldist by White Americans (I am from some Third World country).
@@sahelichowdhury Black Americans have little or nothing in common with the rest of the African diaspora - and everything in common with White America.
Many White Americans, not all by any means, but I'd say a majority - love and celebrate the alpha dog. I mean they make John Wayne the symbol of the US army, they get Bruce Willis to make speeches after 911 - or then you've got George Bush using all this language from Western movies - about get out of dodge, smoke 'em out etc etc. And needless to say the cult of Trump
But when Black people act in the same way, it's seen by the same white people as cockiness, boorishness, arrogance, ostentation.
It's like/American black culture holds up a mirror to the white culture, and the whites don't like what they see in themselves. So I'd say the antagonism toward black culture is really a projection.
It's like the old proverb about the pot calling the kettle black
" Oho said the pot to the kettle
You are dirty ugly and black
Sure no one would think you were metal
except when given a crack
Not so! not so! said the kettle to the pot
It's your own dirty image you see
So I am so clean - without blemish or blot
That your blackness is mirrored in me"
Can someone please start adding captions because I can't understand a damn word he says.
Bs, he speaks clearer than any average Englishman in Birmingham
Wer gon' parrty like its *sniff* sho birshday
Zizek needs younger black friends. For you see, black Boomers are not fond of young (poor) Black people and their culture.
There is also something to be said in favor of "owning" a term. Having an exclusive right to use a term that historically was used to demean who and what you are in order to redefine it.
I am guessing that black rappers understand the term in different ways from -let's say- people of the baby-boomer generation.
I think the modern understanding is more along the lines of "a person that struggling like me and and defined by bad circumstances, like me" - though I may be wildly off. I am whiter than brioche bread on the inside.
@@DimiShimi And how are you on the outside? Anyway, not important. In many countries of the world, among many communities, people are trying to reclaim derogatory terms that were previously used to insult them. If the insulting power is taken away from a word then it no longer remains insulting, that is the idea. I suppose that is similar among Black people of the United States also?
My point exactly, when black people use the N word, it is supposed to be about taking the term back and reminding each other of their history. (At least, I think that is what they are supposedly doing.)
This is probably problematic on several levels, since they assert their identity through the lens of racism. (Master slave dialectic and so further and so on). But it is nothing to be scoffed at.
50 cent is one of the realist Rappers and i don't even like rap, very intelligent guy
Fucking Daffy Duck spits less
Is 50 cent even alive? Lol
oh yeah, his most recent project is a TV show that's a combination of a prison and courtroom drama called "For Life", in which he plays a villain
Last I heard he was only worth 50 cents..
M Jones Dude is a multi-millionaire
@@michaeldadon7294 He did go bankrupt a while back. Maybe he invested in bitcoin at the right time to recoup.
50bit.
i can smell all the saliva from here
Lmfao i live in burlington
Tbf it's a lovely city and VT is beautiful.
I heard the balls there can get pretty frisky
French Dan Harmon really has a point here
Oh boy... Do more he talks... lol
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Someone tell this guy to blow his nose
someones late to the party
As tyler owen said zizek is conservative.
Nah
Zizek can be taken out of context easily with 5 minute clips, his lectures are one long sentence that can not be bit and pieced or you miss the all important context
Zizek is a philosopher on the left, he said it himself
If a philosopher can be taken out of context in a short clip easily, they’d your fault for falling for the manipulation, it doesn’t rebrand the person speaking
Which is the reasonable position here, in my opinion.
I think this guy is probably super interesting. Shame you can't understand anything he says :P
No front I just wonder what is with his nose? Just an honest question.
It’s a nervous tick, not drugs.
Why has this channel become super conservative clickbaity with the titles recently? Kinda annoying
Here’s a challenge for people who think this guy has any value: try to describe one of his unique ideas here in a few sentences without reference to another philosopher or known philosophical word/phrase, and without saying what he’s against. Plain language only.
If gender is a construct then so is your identity and everything else, so why even bother with anything? That thinking is useless.
Understanding that something is a social construct helps us to reframe our thinking and break down what is an inherent truth and what can change depending on our way of thinking or culture. It’s very useful in doing any philosophy or science.
If this is your understanding of social construct, then why even bother thinking?
@@kielysmith3233 hmm, I need to clarify my statement. Gender is a social construct based on a self-truth or as you call it inherent truth but inherent truth is not a “social truth”, though it may reflect a socially accepted truth, I don't it is a very useful truth. But then again, what do I know? 😬
@@maartenlabrie6628 sorry but you don't make sense
oh noooo lmao
he’s wrong here lol. wtf does he think rock music was then? its not because “black people are patronized”, popular youth music is always generally counter-cultural
I see this is one subject he doesn’t seem to understand.
Does he snort coke or something???
If it was a Conservative saying that, every liberal would disagree
Zizek is a neurotic, rural peasant from former Yugoslavia, he doesn't really understand the paradigm of rap music.
LGBT+, LOL!!!
Lmfao Zizek can't be this ignorant about United States history
Zizek has the dumbest and most incoherent hot takes
Lmao this is almost as bad as Jordan Peterson trying to understand Marxism
He's leftist if you don't know your comment is useless why even bother to write?
You do know Zizek doesn't understand art or the mystical experience right? That is a Buddha I see? He has a lot of good things to say but is head in lost in books
@Terminator X That's not my point. Zizek is only words and words are limited. He doesn't have a proper understanding of reality if he doesn't have the mystical experience. Anyway my question wasn't to you and I'm not looking for an argument/debate.
This man has problems.
Zorba Zeno Maybe he is telling an uncomfortable truth.