Superstar Communist Slavoj Zizek is The Most Dangerous Philosopher in the West

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  • We travel to Ljubljana, Slovenia, to meet superstar Communist philosopher and cultural theorist Slavoj Zizek. The "most dangerous philosopher in the West" talks about his new film, The Pervert's Guide to Ideology, and lectures us on the importance of being on time. If you're curious about that poster of Stalin on his wall, it's "purely to annoy idiots" when they visit.
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  • @VICE
    @VICE  ปีที่แล้ว +119

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    • @AlexSOHR-sw1yy
      @AlexSOHR-sw1yy 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      0000000,,,,,,? ..,....,😊9]$0000]/$

  • @thekempo9202
    @thekempo9202 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20186

    Zizek: *most dangerous philosopher*
    Also zizek: “no seriously can i give you some fucking fruit juice?”

    • @marshaltito7369
      @marshaltito7369 3 ปีที่แล้ว +359

      It's a normal thing to offer in Balkan.
      Nice pfp btw, I love that album.

    • @heyhey8626
      @heyhey8626 3 ปีที่แล้ว +187

      @@marshaltito7369 I don't think the beverage was really the focal point of the comment...

    • @marshaltito7369
      @marshaltito7369 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      @@heyhey8626 I know but still.

    • @that8858
      @that8858 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      He makes you think about history and ideologie in a more neutral and objective way thats it

    • @itsbazyli
      @itsbazyli 2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      6:06

  • @hiemssomnium4153
    @hiemssomnium4153 ปีที่แล้ว +8445

    Being a Slovenian I can finally say I saw Žižek today. He was drinking wine and crossed a red light. Love that man

    • @stefanblumstein652
      @stefanblumstein652 ปีที่แล้ว +278

      Bless him

    • @greyngreyer5
      @greyngreyer5 ปีที่แล้ว +182

      This is the cutest comment I've ever seen.

    • @greyngreyer5
      @greyngreyer5 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Ja sam iz Bosne. Pozdrav, Slovenko :P

    • @jeannedarc7533
      @jeannedarc7533 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      He drove while being drunk?

    • @hiemssomnium4153
      @hiemssomnium4153 ปีที่แล้ว +155

      @@jeannedarc7533No, he was walking

  • @Finkelfunk
    @Finkelfunk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9771

    Quick notice here:
    This guy has now written 80+ books and counting, has starred in two movies, has countless public talks and is a professor - yet his living room is the size of an average college dorm.
    Zizek really is someone who lives by the words he puts down in writing.

    • @jamesthomas1746
      @jamesthomas1746 2 ปีที่แล้ว +341

      knowledge is wealth to a wise man

    • @beadmecreative9485
      @beadmecreative9485 2 ปีที่แล้ว +232

      That’s not his living room, that’s his office in the university he teaches.

    • @yihengfu2425
      @yihengfu2425 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      80 books with similar thoughts lol

    • @Finkelfunk
      @Finkelfunk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +221

      @@yihengfu2425 Well, yeah, they are all about psychoanalysis and communism since that is what Zizek does lol
      Even writing this amount of literary output is an enormous feat.

    • @igorpaulo7499
      @igorpaulo7499 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i dont know his work well, but even he lived in a big house, this wouldn't invalidate his marxist ideology. it's not about money itself

  • @kaiserwilhelmii1827
    @kaiserwilhelmii1827 ปีที่แล้ว +2447

    Zizek is literally the incarnation of "never judge a book by its cover". It's very clear that he's insanely educated in not only political philosophy (among others) but also popular culture.

    • @larietournelle7904
      @larietournelle7904 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      popular origin maybe

    • @archbrooks-watson3137
      @archbrooks-watson3137 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      How would you judge him by his cover?

    • @BobsVagene
      @BobsVagene 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      and the problem is that absolutely no one cares. we have tik tok now.

    • @ISBE91
      @ISBE91 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      ​@@BobsVageneno one cares about tiktok

    • @moo3903
      @moo3903 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@BobsVagene please tell me you were joking

  • @idontfeeltoowell
    @idontfeeltoowell 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8321

    My dad met him, apparently the first words out his mouth were "Ugh, life is hell. Hello, I'm Slavoj."

    • @thesten6982
      @thesten6982 5 ปีที่แล้ว +490

      123456 you’re a bit of a fucking idiot aren’t you

    • @caiorodriguespires9073
      @caiorodriguespires9073 5 ปีที่แล้ว +376

      yeah... by "young marxists" you mean all credible philosophers and scholars that debate his *ahem* PHILOSOPHY in colleges and other academic enviroments?

    • @dinguscollective1872
      @dinguscollective1872 5 ปีที่แล้ว +390

      butthurt Peterson fan.

    • @Dietcool
      @Dietcool 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      doesnt marxist imply gullible

    • @dissco.partysan3333
      @dissco.partysan3333 5 ปีที่แล้ว +132

      carl cruton 123456 doesnt read books, because he gets all the info on Fox news.

  • @alnotbiggaytho7124
    @alnotbiggaytho7124 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19522

    "Most dangerous philosopher"
    *wears sandals with socks*

    • @hanque4684
      @hanque4684 3 ปีที่แล้ว +179

      @Chuck nor do socrates

    • @mokitaism
      @mokitaism 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      Chuck let me go and regurgitate someone else’s ideas.

    • @weepingprophet411
      @weepingprophet411 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@mokitaism hahaha touche

    • @mathiasthelander7834
      @mathiasthelander7834 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Chuck What qualifications should that be?

    • @roskiart8750
      @roskiart8750 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @Chuck That's a non answer. You're not really establishing anything but your opinion. And it isn't impressive

  • @cinilaknedalm
    @cinilaknedalm ปีที่แล้ว +1582

    If you're from Balkans, you know Zizek sounds like a typical Balkan taxi driver. Difference is, they are usually ignored when they rant, this one is encouraged to speak

  • @jasontito7644
    @jasontito7644 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2534

    “An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
    ― Charles Bukowski

    • @jasontito7644
      @jasontito7644 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      history is a witness to calamities caused by intellectuals

    • @jasontito7644
      @jasontito7644 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @i ask him...later

    • @RedzeeTV
      @RedzeeTV ปีที่แล้ว +32

      The opposite is also true, e.g. artists overanalysing works, carl sagan

    • @thegyattiestmanalive22.2
      @thegyattiestmanalive22.2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@RedzeeTV yes, that happens often. they’re called intellectuals.

    • @Batcaveqq
      @Batcaveqq ปีที่แล้ว +82

      That’s actually an incredibly ridiculous statement if you think about it for more than 5 seconds

  • @incoblinko
    @incoblinko 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16122

    "Do you want some fucking fruit juice or something?"

    • @maxcano2063
      @maxcano2063 5 ปีที่แล้ว +292

      I read this wile i was lisening LOL

    • @joandsk830
      @joandsk830 5 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      i thought he said "fruit loose "

    • @DeepBlueMuslim
      @DeepBlueMuslim 5 ปีที่แล้ว +450

      I love the reply 😂 'id love some fucking fruit juice'

    • @bliuzke
      @bliuzke 5 ปีที่แล้ว +292

      He looks like someone who drinks fucking fruit juice

    • @anugrey
      @anugrey 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@bliuzke lmfao

  • @bigfactsbroski
    @bigfactsbroski 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17213

    "what's this stalin photo"
    "I keep that there so that idiots ask me about it"
    r e k t

    • @Zeklore
      @Zeklore 5 ปีที่แล้ว +103

      But people claim when Richard Spencer ironically says Hail Victory

    • @MK-oz2lf
      @MK-oz2lf 5 ปีที่แล้ว +707

      @@Zeklore communism is inclusive to all. Fascism is not and selective as to who gets to participate in its capitalist economy so.... Spencer's irony flopped and deservingl so.

    • @gostavoadolfos2023
      @gostavoadolfos2023 5 ปีที่แล้ว +150

      @@MK-oz2lf communism and Nazism are tow faces of the same coin. Only communism is sub-human.

    • @JaMeshuggah
      @JaMeshuggah 5 ปีที่แล้ว +106

      @@MK-oz2lf more inclusive indeed, especially with human corpses

    • @MK-oz2lf
      @MK-oz2lf 5 ปีที่แล้ว +492

      @@JaMeshuggah never mind capital's death toll since its inception and we can include feudalism too because it is structurally the same thing that capitalism adopted... Never mind that the USSR was actually authoritarian state capitalist because it never transitioned to the next phase as Lenin aimed for before his death... Never mind we had neo nazis alive today running over protestors... you want to imply that actual communism is more violent in its platform?... are you sure you want to sink down this black hole uninformed logic you set yourself into?

  • @robinburkart6445
    @robinburkart6445 ปีที่แล้ว +558

    10:45 are you kidding me? The quote "all revolutions happen when things get a little bit better and the expectations explode and are dissapointed" is exactly what Frank Herbert said in his Dune series - actually his character Pardot Kynes said. Never have I thought I would hear it from someone in the real world so precisely articulated.

    • @niclebowski9214
      @niclebowski9214 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      well it seems like many other cultured ppl agree with this, I can give you an example with Alessandro Barbero an Italian Historian which found this exact pattern during his work. Btw I really recommend you to listen to him he definitely is the Italian counterpart of zizek.

    • @charlesriley16
      @charlesriley16 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Brexit was 4 years ago

    • @mEmory______
      @mEmory______ 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I dont think that's been historically true most of the time.

    • @shambhav9534
      @shambhav9534 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      And then people immediately get nostalgic for the pre-revolution times. It's impossible to please people.

    • @TOM-op2cp
      @TOM-op2cp หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@shambhav9534 thus the "Terror"

  • @teadora1744
    @teadora1744 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1667

    this man is a perfect representation of how it is being a leftist in a hyper-capitalistic society. escpecially being from yugoslavia. its so exhausting. i hate life too Slavoj.

    • @FnafTeamESPANA
      @FnafTeamESPANA ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Tea Dora I need help with this. Everytime is hear "the left" and "the leftists" but I still don't have idea of what does that means. Almost every one I ask gives me a fu****ing different definition😂

    • @anotherhairlessapewithanop7455
      @anotherhairlessapewithanop7455 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@FnafTeamESPANA look up the difference between collectivisim(lefties) and individualism(righties)

    • @Drkon6
      @Drkon6 ปีที่แล้ว +98

      @@anotherhairlessapewithanop7455
      Original definitions of left and right are NOT that. Left meant anti hierarchy, right meant pro hierarchy. Wtf is individualism and collectivism? Is a dictatorship individualist because it's one person concerned with their self interest?

    • @lychee8328
      @lychee8328 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      @@FnafTeamESPANA They are using different definitions because left and right are relative to your political landscape, which is why it is not a globally useful discription. Slavoj is a leftist from Yugoslavia, meaning that he is anticapitalist in what is now a hypercapitalist (hyper rightwing) environment. As an American leftist, I am also anticapitalist, but will often hear procapitalist liberals describe themselves as being 'on the left' because our Overton window is further to the right and we've never had widespread anticapitalist sentiment here. The liberal wants to regulate 'predatory capitalism' but leftists view capitalism itself as predatory and want to move beyond it, though the solution is not agreed upon across the wide spectrum of leftists.

    • @FnafTeamESPANA
      @FnafTeamESPANA ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@lychee8328 thank you! Thats the problem i find in every political conversation. Everyone has a different concept, even inside the same country I live (spain). So every debate gets very confusing and people just yell saying "No, right wingers will do this! its bad!" "no but right wingers dont do that and they never did" en he says "never? look at this guy (insert name)" and then "this guy is fascist and a dictator!" and he will say "yes! thats what the right wing is" and soooo on...

  • @TheSecondVersion
    @TheSecondVersion 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3811

    "Seriously, can I give you some fucking fruit juice or something"
    My new go-to hospitality style

    • @cmd2tuts
      @cmd2tuts 6 ปีที่แล้ว +88

      This is good because cancer is included in it.

    • @shredderly
      @shredderly 6 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Has been my general attitude towards people for years.
      Mixed results.

    • @nytrodioxide
      @nytrodioxide 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      "I'd love some fucking fruit juice"

  • @dirtycommie7770
    @dirtycommie7770 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2537

    I love how half of his apartment is bookshelves

    • @jaif7327
      @jaif7327 2 ปีที่แล้ว +105

      based as hell

    • @sempressfi
      @sempressfi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Same. I've got one room that has 2 walls off bookshelves and then other rooms with some random floating bookshelves but i want to build a cabin with where at least one room has all 4 walls floor to ceiling books - the door will be like one of the secret spinny doors and be shelves too lol

    • @Nico_Stadler
      @Nico_Stadler 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      I mean he needs one wall for only his books already

    • @moRaaOTAKU
      @moRaaOTAKU 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      U can't write If u haven't read

    • @tranthiminhchauam5538
      @tranthiminhchauam5538 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Ah yes, Bookshelvish

  • @mr.morgan2578
    @mr.morgan2578 2 ปีที่แล้ว +593

    Props to Alex Miller. Well prepared for the interview, both in Zizek’s work and topics pertaining to him; as well as contributing and evolving the conversation with mindful subjects.

    • @wipwopje3131
      @wipwopje3131 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Yeah, I noticed that as well. Hats off to him. Nowadays a lot of interviews don’t reach their full potential as a result of bad interviewers, sadly.

  • @mr.banana8384
    @mr.banana8384 2 ปีที่แล้ว +285

    I am from Slovenija and i can say that i have just found him out today at 18 years old. I can also say that he is sadly probably more respected by foreigners than Slovenians because no one really talks aboat him as much as they should.

    • @lameduck3105
      @lameduck3105 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      He did run for the Slovenian Democratic Party after the break of Yugoslavia. You can find some videos of him here on TH-cam debating other Slovenian politicians.

    • @goranbelllane4857
      @goranbelllane4857 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Zar to nije tuzna sudbina svih slavnih sa nasih prostora? 🤭

  • @muhammadrifkiridhani874
    @muhammadrifkiridhani874 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15503

    "you don't hate Monday, you hate capitalism"

    • @eltiggy7031
      @eltiggy7031 3 ปีที่แล้ว +334

      true

    • @FraterL
      @FraterL 3 ปีที่แล้ว +363

      We don’t have capitalism or free markets. Republicans are socialists for the rich. In a free and open market there would be no bail outs.

    • @kelleymuro5271
      @kelleymuro5271 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      One of the best interviews with Zizak I advice everyone to watch this here is the link:
      th-cam.com/video/CLGy129CmCQ/w-d-xo.html

    • @Ashley-lt8wk
      @Ashley-lt8wk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      uniromically yes

    • @hotspot131638837
      @hotspot131638837 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      And I’d do love Monday with a communistic society

  • @psychopathichomosapien
    @psychopathichomosapien 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6973

    i'm kinda shocked when he offered him coke in liquid form

    • @MrShinTensei
      @MrShinTensei 4 ปีที่แล้ว +193

      Least he could have done is offer him a line

    • @shanenelson3863
      @shanenelson3863 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      I thought it was really rude

    • @nickolasokeefe9348
      @nickolasokeefe9348 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Haha..clever comment.

    • @shanenelson3863
      @shanenelson3863 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @keeg you sound like I need more cocaine cause your a buzz kill

    • @narxes
      @narxes 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      hahaha zizek do cocaine hahaha hilarious and original

  • @ltp27345
    @ltp27345 ปีที่แล้ว +427

    “No one is equal. Some are tall and stupid, others are short bald and clever.” - Yuri Bezmenov

    • @ltp27345
      @ltp27345 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      though we should be equal under the law

    • @ets2446
      @ets2446 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@ltp27345 Laws are fundamentally geared towards including some and excluding others. An inherently biased system imo

    • @karenmiely7219
      @karenmiely7219 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ets2446 Playing out every day here in 3D with surround sound.

    • @deriznohappehquite
      @deriznohappehquite ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ets2446 An inherently biased legal system is massively better than not having laws.

    • @ets2446
      @ets2446 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@deriznohappehquite Wow what a great comparison 😂🤦🏾‍♂️

  • @shoaibahmed588
    @shoaibahmed588 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5368

    Zizek guide to life:
    - Be on time
    - Hit yourself
    What an interesting guy.

    • @benjapizarro981
      @benjapizarro981 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @RED PILL PORTAL yeah, but even modern democracies have socialists policies, it has some good ideas, the democratic ones.

    • @oibruv3889
      @oibruv3889 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @RED PILL PORTAL capitalism is croney capitalism lmao

    • @20TonChop
      @20TonChop 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      And you have to touch your nose at least 100 times per conversation.

    • @CPD-KD6-3.7
      @CPD-KD6-3.7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      You forgot the fucking fruit juice

    • @pedrosilvaferreira2562
      @pedrosilvaferreira2562 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not interesting at all.

  • @Onehundredpounds
    @Onehundredpounds 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6904

    Zizek is wearing socks and Velcro sandals. Absolute chad

    • @joeywho534
      @joeywho534 4 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      Don’t you see how big of a threat he is? Velcro sandals are a dead giveaway.

    • @mist3325
      @mist3325 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@tarikay93 Shut up its a joke m8

    • @Onehundredpounds
      @Onehundredpounds 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Vatian did u know that ppl can use terms ironically?

    • @Kyle_Fall
      @Kyle_Fall 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Why do you think he's married to a 40 year old when he's 70 ;)

    • @jessewallace12able
      @jessewallace12able 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This term, Chad, sucks.

  • @tharunsankar4926
    @tharunsankar4926 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    What I dig about Zizek is that he just doesn’t fucking care about what people think; he preaches what leftism is really about, and distinguishes between coorperate “leftism”/neo-liberalism and actual leftism.

  • @chanti9274
    @chanti9274 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    man you should have made a longer video, this man talks so well I listen to him all day.

  • @judithlobo9038
    @judithlobo9038 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9019

    He reminds me of what a Greek philosopher would be in our times.

    • @user-pj4vs5bb3u
      @user-pj4vs5bb3u 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You have no clue idiot

    • @hellodolly7301
      @hellodolly7301 2 ปีที่แล้ว +307

      Gives similar vibes, coming from a person who barely knows both this philosopher and those

    • @shayne-1880
      @shayne-1880 2 ปีที่แล้ว +583

      Diogenes

    • @karllauterbach9420
      @karllauterbach9420 2 ปีที่แล้ว +113

      "School" was the one thing everybody wanted to do in ancient Greece. Curiosity was much higher. No scandals in the news but temples and gardens built just for thinking.

    • @jessaguilar4747
      @jessaguilar4747 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@shayne-1880 I was going to say the same thing, thought I’d look if anyone had said it lol

  • @fermiLiquidDrinker
    @fermiLiquidDrinker 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3180

    Slajov reminds me of the eccentric neighbor that you can talk to for hours.

    • @fuckoff433
      @fuckoff433 7 ปีที่แล้ว +200

      probably both

    • @OkayCesarini
      @OkayCesarini 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Bubbadoobop LARKS TONGUES IN ASPIC

    • @imamalam4971
      @imamalam4971 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Bubbadoobop Also, Sylvester the cat.

    • @artemesaulkov2010
      @artemesaulkov2010 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      #Frippforpresident

    • @fermiLiquidDrinker
      @fermiLiquidDrinker 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      #Frippforworldwideoverlord

  • @rilindjahiu7359
    @rilindjahiu7359 2 ปีที่แล้ว +316

    I saw Slavoj Zizek at a grocery store yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Snickers in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
    When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

    • @smkxodnwbwkdns8369
      @smkxodnwbwkdns8369 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      He is my idol. What an amazing story and person.

    • @Spaaxy
      @Spaaxy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@smkxodnwbwkdns8369 this is made up 😂

    • @Smerpyderp
      @Smerpyderp ปีที่แล้ว +71

      Totally true story.

    • @irvinclemente2368
      @irvinclemente2368 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      this pasta is delicious

    • @soccerruben1
      @soccerruben1 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Nice CopyPasta

  • @tommygarson8592
    @tommygarson8592 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    "you should have violent outbursts and you should direct them at yourself" I can see why he terrifies people. his mind is horrifyingly bright. I like him

  • @riellymorton
    @riellymorton 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4695

    “Seriously can I give you some fucking fruit juice or Coke?” I love this guy.

    • @lukamg7368
      @lukamg7368 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Ded 💀

    • @jhumakansabanik7234
      @jhumakansabanik7234 2 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      Zizek is lovable. He is dangerous in that way that with an abstract stroke of pure knowledge compounded with witty stance of delivery can shake even a dead log.

    • @cloman7199
      @cloman7199 2 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      By the way he was rubbing his nose every other second I reckoned he meant coke, not Coke.

    • @jarlbalgruufthegreater1758
      @jarlbalgruufthegreater1758 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@cloman7199 Its a tick

    • @Ben-tt8kk
      @Ben-tt8kk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@jarlbalgruufthegreater1758 he's obviously a coke fiend

  • @elijahlurton3570
    @elijahlurton3570 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3378

    It feels like his accent is a liquid that he secretes when he speaks

    • @RockOwnz46
      @RockOwnz46 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      This just made me LOL sooooo hard, baby.

    • @halseykale9930
      @halseykale9930 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      what in the hell

    • @ericg4915
      @ericg4915 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It's spit flying out of his mouth cause he talks so fast as if ppl really give a shit what he has to say

    • @leomachado7676
      @leomachado7676 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Liquid he secretes... hilarious 😂😂😂

    • @laalaajonsen
      @laalaajonsen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      he sounds like the marriage counselor in Rick and morty that needs to clear his throat

  • @kelsieslagle9177
    @kelsieslagle9177 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    It's so wonderful to see him, he always warmed my heart. An international treasure of a man.

  • @BOARMoto-bm2mh
    @BOARMoto-bm2mh 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    “Man starts over again each day in spite of all he knows; against all he knows.”
    -Emil Cioran

  • @DooDooDaddyTV
    @DooDooDaddyTV 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9397

    This is what conservatives think Bernie was

    • @emanergza6383
      @emanergza6383 3 ปีที่แล้ว +517

      Don't stain Zizek's greatness with a grifting excuse of a spineless politician

    • @DooDooDaddyTV
      @DooDooDaddyTV 3 ปีที่แล้ว +793

      @@emanergza6383 shut up

    • @yaboymart3237
      @yaboymart3237 3 ปีที่แล้ว +277

      @@DooDooDaddyTV based

    • @emanergza6383
      @emanergza6383 3 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      @@yaboymart3237 based on what?

    • @frankly4824
      @frankly4824 3 ปีที่แล้ว +221

      @@emanergza6383 lmao

  • @ebinecksdee9872
    @ebinecksdee9872 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8393

    I saw Slavoj Zizek at a Border's bookstore in Virginia a few years ago. It was weird because he wasn't actually inside, he was on a bench outside eating one of those Libby's 6 lb aluminum cans of sweet corn with a fork. I asked him what he was doing and he said I should "respect his intolerance towards my over-proximity" and winked at me with both eyes. Idk if over-proximity is even a word. It was a pretty surreal experience. When I came out of the store he had fallen asleep and spilled the can of corn all over himself and was practically being eaten alive by seagulls and his shoes were nowhere to be found.

    • @firoza8994
      @firoza8994 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1661

      thats a real thinker man

    • @antie5459
      @antie5459 3 ปีที่แล้ว +159

      Hahahaha, really cool

    • @rustyshackleford4801
      @rustyshackleford4801 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1550

      God I want this to be true

    • @ebinecksdee9872
      @ebinecksdee9872 3 ปีที่แล้ว +247

      @@rustyshackleford4801 it is

    • @luccaregnato
      @luccaregnato 3 ปีที่แล้ว +202

      Laughed so hard at this

  • @mnmlst1
    @mnmlst1 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    I love this man so much.
    I remember at university in 2010 I brought one of his papers to Political Geography class for an activity, and my professor didn't know him, and joked me saying I was making up and humiliating in class.
    Next year she was teaching him at class.

  • @chupamelamas
    @chupamelamas 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    One of the most interesting videos of vice so far! More of this please! 🙏🏻

  • @a.r.c8021
    @a.r.c8021 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4585

    “Ideology is not only the world we live in, but especially the wrong ways we imagine how to escape.” Wow...

    • @nuckinfuts7502
      @nuckinfuts7502 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      I’ve been looking for this quote forever. I knew I heard him say it before but I couldn’t find it. This is the problem with socialism or communism as a final goal.

    • @nuckinfuts7502
      @nuckinfuts7502 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A. Rodriguez watched them bro.

    • @LearningDrummerSam
      @LearningDrummerSam 3 ปีที่แล้ว +160

      @@nuckinfuts7502 This is the problem with literally any ideology, you're missing the point

    • @nuckinfuts7502
      @nuckinfuts7502 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@LearningDrummerSam of course, I was just looking for it particularly in regards to socialism and communism. Of course this applies to ideology as a whole.

    • @anghusmorgenholz1060
      @anghusmorgenholz1060 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Very nice Marxist critique on ideology I'm going to freak my communist friend with that one.

  • @Igor-hj3tn
    @Igor-hj3tn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6360

    You can tell he is very inteligent, but people don‘t see it because of his humor etc. which is actually quite normal in Ex-Yugoslavia

    • @nalzhaaaaaaay
      @nalzhaaaaaaay 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Yugoslavia? Seriously!? Hes from Slovenia (former Czechoslovakia)

    • @nalzhaaaaaaay
      @nalzhaaaaaaay 4 ปีที่แล้ว +156

      @slovene ball shit you right

    • @LifeofMinna
      @LifeofMinna 4 ปีที่แล้ว +457

      @@nalzhaaaaaaay Slovenia was not part of Czechoslovakia..... It says it in the name lol... Czech + slovakia (not Slovenia)

    • @nalzhaaaaaaay
      @nalzhaaaaaaay 4 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      @@LifeofMinna bitch I know

    • @meekmaalik9673
      @meekmaalik9673 4 ปีที่แล้ว +146

      Im from bosnia and yes slovenija was part of jugoslavija....

  • @-chloe-8728
    @-chloe-8728 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    “i hate life” is such a fantastic greeting i’m gonna steal it

  • @farhannoor3433
    @farhannoor3433 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    "Ideology is not just the world we live in, but also the wrong ways we imagine how to escape"

  • @IloveGorgeousGeorge
    @IloveGorgeousGeorge 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6894

    "I'm disgusted to see myself on screen"
    "Hi, I hate life"
    *nervous tics*
    Wow forget spirit animal, this man is me.

    • @1.Specimen
      @1.Specimen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Read more.

    • @BLINDCABBY
      @BLINDCABBY 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Brad Knapp only a lot more interesting

    • @aliamhaz4765
      @aliamhaz4765 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Brad Knapp w q

    • @dantheman669
      @dantheman669 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I dunno, man. With THAT speech impediment...I'd be wearing a tarp. His house must be drenched.

    • @averagecommunist3456
      @averagecommunist3456 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      HE IS COMMUNIST! 😀

  • @pablogarciacampos
    @pablogarciacampos 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3720

    -Why do you have this here?
    -Just for idiots to ask about it:
    BOSS

    • @nestorsdragon8057
      @nestorsdragon8057 7 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      "I hate like, hi"

    • @obsoleteoptics
      @obsoleteoptics 7 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Nestor's Dragon *life

    • @ProlificThreadworm
      @ProlificThreadworm 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      That's like going to a party with trousers your dog shat on and calling people idiots for pointing out the marks

    • @bongoseropersa5240
      @bongoseropersa5240 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @guinness4life how and why is he a sham?

    • @clansman89
      @clansman89 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @guinness4life Did you read them?

  • @Lance21094
    @Lance21094 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    his first interaction is his telling you he hates life?!?! I fucking love this guy

  • @alirezakargar1498
    @alirezakargar1498 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    His analysis of middle east situation is sharply on point and aged very well.

  • @MD-np2nk
    @MD-np2nk 7 ปีที่แล้ว +459

    ''Seriously, can I give you some fucking fruit juice or something.''

  • @sleslie23
    @sleslie23 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5296

    "What do you mean fans? People hate me." That statement alone made me like him.

    • @Tin98Tin
      @Tin98Tin 7 ปีที่แล้ว +116

      What every teenage girl says

    • @bd9267
      @bd9267 6 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      there's nothing to like about him.

    • @williamtang899
      @williamtang899 6 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      Then look into his writings.

    • @Feffdc
      @Feffdc 6 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      MC Hammer We dont care

    • @resmarted
      @resmarted 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      You must be a big fan of Trump then

  • @voidfrensij
    @voidfrensij 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    6:06 he literally passed from rambling to asking if you want a "fucking fruit juice"
    i adore him

  • @blessedandbiwithahintofmagic
    @blessedandbiwithahintofmagic ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I like the part about communist thinkers and Zizek having a sense of humor, because figures like Marx, Lenin, and more have some sick burns they dish out in their thesisies - sometimes, they are legitimately funny some of their lines, and they wrote it well, because 100, 150 years later, the little comic relief jokes hit well, because they explain the background. Humor and leftism has a strong, long standing history ^^

    • @pauloemilio9807
      @pauloemilio9807 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      wtf does that even mean

  • @MitchellPorter2025
    @MitchellPorter2025 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4873

    Peterson: clean your room. Zizek: be on time.

    • @Bobbyhiddn
      @Bobbyhiddn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Mitchell Porter You’d think these things would be known.

    • @superjeffstanton
      @superjeffstanton 5 ปีที่แล้ว +118

      Owwn Benjamin: Stop watching porn

    • @utsavman47
      @utsavman47 5 ปีที่แล้ว +254

      Have you seen peterson's room? Such a fucking mess 😂

    • @adrianirimescu988
      @adrianirimescu988 5 ปีที่แล้ว +283

      @@utsavman47 and zizek is never on time. Those are their ideals

    • @CIARUNSITE
      @CIARUNSITE 5 ปีที่แล้ว +185

      Peterson: begs for handouts.
      Peterson: eats 4 lbs or raw meat every day.
      Peterson: objectively the bigger joke.

  • @anujp7554
    @anujp7554 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1532

    When the worlds ending I want Salvoj Zizek to commentate.

    • @oulewappeur76
      @oulewappeur76 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      😂

    • @averagekiwiconsumer9977
      @averagekiwiconsumer9977 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Slavoj not Salvoj

    • @popdop0074
      @popdop0074 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      "Some men just want to watch the world burn"

    • @chinggiskhan6678
      @chinggiskhan6678 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      "And the world ended under control of the burgeois. It is sad knowing that humanity at a point in history did get close to that, but then threw it away, preferring to stay oppressed"

    • @jernyx9139
      @jernyx9139 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@averagekiwiconsumer9977 okej čad strelokurac

  • @CrypticRite
    @CrypticRite 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "ABSOLUTELY there to annoy people"
    What a man.

  • @brandonvestra
    @brandonvestra 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1283

    Because of Zizek, I gradually changed the way I pronounced ideology.

    • @embs5803
      @embs5803 4 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      I now just say eedeeology

    • @_Mr_Matthew_
      @_Mr_Matthew_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      edgyology

    • @mittwochxiv.9770
      @mittwochxiv.9770 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@_Mr_Matthew_ edgy

    • @SDGFDSZXC
      @SDGFDSZXC 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lol in dutch its als said like that

    • @barnaclescum7011
      @barnaclescum7011 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@mittwochxiv.9770 egg

  • @aloofaloofing2859
    @aloofaloofing2859 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3091

    I just love how Zizek says ‘capitalism’. There’s 15 syllables when he says it.

  • @TheYolo20
    @TheYolo20 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    People picking on him because of his appearance or mannerisms or how he speaks are in reality just trying to discredit him through those actions because they cant even fumble a coherent sentence let alone a good argument against his arguments

  • @nimrod1998
    @nimrod1998 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love how much the interviewer is enjoying the interview hahahaha

  • @billy9497able
    @billy9497able 3 ปีที่แล้ว +745

    "What do you mean by fans people hate me, im not kidding" had me dying for some reason

    • @rrickey360
      @rrickey360 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I totally agree pissing my laughing

    • @Lorraine-nu1cd
      @Lorraine-nu1cd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Me too, theres smtg about how he said it that got me bursting into laughter

    • @artseosamhogriobhta
      @artseosamhogriobhta ปีที่แล้ว

      I think only troons and weirdos reviled by normal people enjoy this guy. Mostly because he's the only philosopher who permits their degeneracy and parpahilia - or rather ignores it. Best you can hope for, eh?

    • @maxim_ml
      @maxim_ml 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      yeah i completely lost it

  • @disquette8958
    @disquette8958 4 ปีที่แล้ว +628

    "Of course it's a tragedy. People are dying, AND SO ON"

  • @johniegoh3690
    @johniegoh3690 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Zizek , thank you so much ! You are my idol . I want to say my thanks to you , your philosophy is simply amazing and workable !

  • @tiamonet4231
    @tiamonet4231 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I absolutely love this guy. What a legend

  • @narxes
    @narxes 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5267

    I bet the 4.1K dislikes didn't even watch the whole video and disliked immediately just because they saw the word Communist in the title.

    • @abhimanyukarnawat7441
      @abhimanyukarnawat7441 3 ปีที่แล้ว +133

      Yes and?

    • @narxes
      @narxes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1376

      @@abhimanyukarnawat7441 Hi, I'm doing a public survey on mentally challenged people and how they interact with the world around them, do you have the time to answer a couple of questions?

    • @whyamihere5732
      @whyamihere5732 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@henrik4630 indeed. Quite a reasonable man, he is.

    • @bluemethetys9267
      @bluemethetys9267 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      I think some amount of these dislikes disliked the cuts and editing

    • @R.P.McMurphy
      @R.P.McMurphy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Cowlan more like the other way around, he showed that clearly that comment bothered him.

  • @ExtremelyToxic
    @ExtremelyToxic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1761

    He can speak English so well, but his accent is so thick lol

    • @juniperq4900
      @juniperq4900 3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      Ummm.... have you never heard a person speak English from another country. It's pretty normal to talk with an accent when you speak a second language

    • @ExtremelyToxic
      @ExtremelyToxic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +167

      @@juniperq4900 I didn't say it was abnormal... But thanks for the lesson professor

    • @raviolijones5351
      @raviolijones5351 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ExtremelyToxic love how your original comment was a month ago - bravo sir

    • @sr3821
      @sr3821 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      When I heard his accent, I thought he was an Italian 😁

    • @digiulio
      @digiulio 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      The funny thing is that he talks this same way even in Slovenian

  • @HotelMari0Maker
    @HotelMari0Maker 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    15:08 - it's surreal and awesome to see Zizek laughing and having a good time!

  • @patrickdonaghy3009
    @patrickdonaghy3009 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Slavoj Zizek is the type of guy who everyone wants to be a special guest in the Great British Bake Off

  • @liambakewelllopez8592
    @liambakewelllopez8592 5 ปีที่แล้ว +956

    “Here is included the cancer you get because it’s zero which means instead of sugar you get all those sweeteners”

    • @IsraeliGuy18
      @IsraeliGuy18 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      My favorite part of the video. LOL

    • @worrywirt
      @worrywirt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Donald Trump literally everything causes cancer so who cares, let’s live life deliciously :)
      (My pitch for a Coke ad 😂)

    • @justpettet3506
      @justpettet3506 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@worrywirt my pitch for heroin also

    • @fleaship6134
      @fleaship6134 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Tommy Shelby that's a hoax

    • @justpettet3506
      @justpettet3506 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Samson Patrick Awili hahahha yeah so anarchic to think I should be able to eat and drink what I want hahahah :)

  • @freudastaire
    @freudastaire 5 ปีที่แล้ว +753

    never guessed that Coldplay's vocalist was such a good interviewer

    • @punkisinthedetails1470
      @punkisinthedetails1470 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      doesn't look or sound like Chris.Martin. Coldplay are dull as cold shit.

  • @genossewurzelkobold3141
    @genossewurzelkobold3141 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The most dangerous philosopher?
    dangerous for who? For the rich? For the ruling class? Maybe. But not for the people, for the people he is a blessing.

  • @louismahon6834
    @louismahon6834 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this was an incredibly interesting conversation to watch and listen to

  • @lrm9298
    @lrm9298 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1809

    "I'm afraid of myself, I don't need power" 👏😂

    • @ananthakrishnanma6650
      @ananthakrishnanma6650 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Is he Dumbledore??

    • @Ikaros23
      @Ikaros23 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      lol... he is i liar. Just a stupid intellectuals ( ideology junky/escapist) belives his lies, normal people can see that he is just a bullshit talker. He loves the power the attension gives him and is a total narcissist. Only a narcissist or a totalt idiot is positiv to Stalinism in 2020. He is just a parasitt on the western freedoms he has ( just law system, freedom of speech).

    • @joeywho534
      @joeywho534 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Problem with this concept is one person WILL get the power. And when they do everyone else is in trouble.

    • @Antraeus
      @Antraeus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @@joeywho534 He understands this point.

    • @SomebodyLikeXeo
      @SomebodyLikeXeo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@Ikaros23 Read his work before you start spitting crap.

  • @bisexualitycreature
    @bisexualitycreature ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Correspondent totally knew how to talk to zizek, get the best out of him in what little time was given.

  • @maogu1999
    @maogu1999 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I like how Slavoj remained like that funny guy in a video game who never goes away. I hope he's doing okay.

  • @ThePussukka
    @ThePussukka 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3652

    He's so deeply intelligent, but also very funny and likeable while also being humble, funny to always see him on screen since he's so awkward.

    • @smilingcat7001
      @smilingcat7001 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Deeply intelligent people talk much less. Charlatan who talks much and says nothing.

    • @fynntasticmovienight
      @fynntasticmovienight 2 ปีที่แล้ว +258

      @@smilingcat7001 its literally an interview. And, talking much or little doesn’t have much to so with intelligence.

    • @Hypie582
      @Hypie582 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@fynntasticmovienight It depends on what is being talked about

    • @varkoor0438
      @varkoor0438 2 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      @@smilingcat7001 Ben Shapiro 😂

    • @1DesertEagle26
      @1DesertEagle26 2 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      @@smilingcat7001 average Jordan Peterson fan

  • @Gizmopoly
    @Gizmopoly 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2235

    I didn’t know Mark Hamill was a Marxist

    • @morpheusxnyc
      @morpheusxnyc 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You mean Lewis Black...

    • @martin8313
      @martin8313 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      We live in a society

    • @matthewmayuiers
      @matthewmayuiers 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      He kind of actually is, loves socialism

    • @KPho150
      @KPho150 5 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      why the fuck did you think he fought the Empire for? To free the proletariat!

    • @flxkts
      @flxkts 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Much like stalin, he likes using force

  • @waffelmeister9477
    @waffelmeister9477 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    I saw Slavoj Žižek at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
    He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
    I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
    The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
    When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

    • @giberr6628
      @giberr6628 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      this has me in shambles

    • @penjamin1479
      @penjamin1479 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      love this copypasta

    • @hienable6933
      @hienable6933 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You got a good imagination, friend

  • @lameduck3105
    @lameduck3105 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well done interview Alex Miller.

  • @bangkok8370
    @bangkok8370 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3216

    Nobody:
    Vice: Communist Superstar

    • @allencaseyseverinogumiran8432
      @allencaseyseverinogumiran8432 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      @Jay James Kulaks deserve it though

    • @jackrutledgegoembel5896
      @jackrutledgegoembel5896 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      @Jay James bruh stop copy pasting this comment everywhere.

    • @distane8376
      @distane8376 4 ปีที่แล้ว +154

      @Jay James I do enjoy right wingers pretending they care about the sanctity of life. If we wanted to raise your taxes an extra 25 cents to feed orphans you'd threaten to murder politicians.

    • @anthonygumingo9840
      @anthonygumingo9840 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@distane8376 Right wingers and conservative foundations have done more through charity than any government program. It's not like right wingers don't want to help, they just don't want to be robbed by the government for them to just suck at it

    • @5uperM
      @5uperM 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@distane8376 well I think being weary of tax raise is a pretty rational thing to freak out about not only does the taxes being raised once leave a precedent for more tax raises, but it also gives more money to the government which in turn gets spend on stupid bulkshit.

  • @unifieddynasty
    @unifieddynasty 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1990

    "Can I give you some fucking fruit juice?"
    This man is a hero.

    • @dante.paradiso
      @dante.paradiso 9 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      ***** *_"this man a hero". this is a delirant statement. Take control of your speech man but first know real heroes. Control your naive sentimentalism_*

    • @dante.paradiso
      @dante.paradiso 9 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      ***** *_You like his way of talking: "fucking fruit juice" because he's vulgar like you identifying with his vulgarity, you like his stupid way of having conversations_*

    • @unifieddynasty
      @unifieddynasty 9 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      Fabrizio Picco *_Fascinating, tell me more!_*

    • @dante.paradiso
      @dante.paradiso 9 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      ***** *_For Marx in one of his letters to Engels stated his opinions about "thinking" and "doing something important: to change the state of things with praxis". Paraphrasing Marx: "I have to think that thinking too much is usually an obstacle to act." Engels stated: "A gram of Praxis worths more than a ton of theories". It is usual in our time: the motto of our time is: "Think too much non productive ideas until you're unable to act". Watch Zizek video called "Don't act, think!" If a revolution blows up in europe, i'm sure i will find Zizek in a coffeshop (read my other comment here) thinking his same unproductive ideas one over again, with no possible end. His main problem is not to solve the question of ideas and praxis. Organizing and Acting solve mental issues and vicious ideas: This is the most perfect comprehension of Marx's theories and praxis, and of his 11 thesis on Feuerbach._*

    • @unifieddynasty
      @unifieddynasty 9 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Fabrizio Picco Go on...

  • @deepster8731
    @deepster8731 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    1:11 I always come back to this part to get a chuckle

  • @akimorita
    @akimorita ปีที่แล้ว +3

    6:06 hands down the highlight of the interview

  • @jasper677
    @jasper677 3 ปีที่แล้ว +726

    I like how he randomly puts german words in his sentences and the reporter is too respectful to ask and zizek doesnt notice because hes rambling so hard

    • @bobthedestroyer6205
      @bobthedestroyer6205 2 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      In Slovenia we use so many german words, we dont even notice we dont speak slovene sometimes

    • @Taunt61
      @Taunt61 2 ปีที่แล้ว +122

      Ersatz is used in academic english, he assumes academic literacy from the interviewer

    • @jasper677
      @jasper677 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@Taunt61 interesting, didnt knew. In germany it just means replacement, does it mean this?

    • @Taunt61
      @Taunt61 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@jasper677 I think in English it carries more of a negative connotation than it does in German, but it's otherwise quite similar in use.

    • @imtu1231
      @imtu1231 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @@jasper677 Often used in Russia aswell "ersatz something" means a more cheap/crude/easy to make/lower quality something but still capable of doing what it was designed for.

  • @LloydWaldo
    @LloydWaldo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +887

    I had a boss like the one being described. The ultimate form of oppression was to make himself appear to be an equal, but to exercise subtle power over everyone - never taking responsibility for failures and always claiming our successes as his own.

    • @Minezanians
      @Minezanians ปีที่แล้ว

      @@aarondavid826 You probably hate your job too.

    • @k1sm33t
      @k1sm33t ปีที่แล้ว

      @@aarondavid826 not how it works, you’re either stupid or a child

    • @22cents60
      @22cents60 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I recently have such a boss and it sucks. I've got no direction in my job and of course I make mistakes but all of a sudden it's completely my fault as I'm supposed to be my own boss or something. Zero responsibility of the boss.

    • @pineapples8503
      @pineapples8503 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      remember when The Office tried to show that for one season and then did a 180 and genuinely committed to this "office is a family" bs lol

    • @HAL-99000
      @HAL-99000 ปีที่แล้ว

      Stop having a boss, do something!!

  • @KomnataNorth
    @KomnataNorth 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is best most interesting interview I seen in 2023

  • @arinalikes5911
    @arinalikes5911 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I will forever remember when he said “ I am not a pervert” to me after a lecture ,guy is a comedian. Very funny out of context.
    😊

  • @hughobyrne8921
    @hughobyrne8921 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1135

    No one:
    Slavoj: I hate life.

  • @Vashtanerada477
    @Vashtanerada477 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1440

    So many people are obsessed with their philosophers being glamorous and sleek but that just seems disingenuous to me. Zizek is a modern-day Diogenes, he's a racoon that was rummaging around a liberal poli-sci university's dumpster that became sentient and started teaching classes out of an abandoned garden shed. He's one of a kind.

    • @ole-christian6006
      @ole-christian6006 5 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Diogenes at once threw away his underpants upon seeing a prince get defecated on by a flown-in, all expenses paid Instagram model

    • @markdarling9625
      @markdarling9625 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Trump state of union

    • @orirbjrk5573
      @orirbjrk5573 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Few comments inspire such good chuckles. Thank you sir.

    • @nolives
      @nolives 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Too accurate. Especially the diogenes reference.

    • @thetankietrotskyist1237
      @thetankietrotskyist1237 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Vashtanerada477
      >liberal
      >communist
      Pick one

  • @carlkamuti
    @carlkamuti ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The way Zizek makes a generous offer of fruit juice sound like an exasperated threat 🤣🤣
    Masterful and hilarious.

  • @Darkskulledprince
    @Darkskulledprince ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I saw him in person on the street and saluted him.

  • @lumpofcoal2437
    @lumpofcoal2437 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2262

    I wish Zizek was my uncle. Family dinners would actually be fun if we had this manic intellectual projectile-spitting into the food and denouncing capitalism.

    • @qv8281
      @qv8281 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Sinsearach how many corpses from sectarianism ? Life wouldn’t be the same without discourse

    • @leahdorothy
      @leahdorothy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      lmfao this is perfect

    • @MicahBuzanANIMATION
      @MicahBuzanANIMATION 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Or you could invite your hipster cousin to do that lol.

    • @rogerigez21
      @rogerigez21 5 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      > food
      > communism
      Pick one

    • @harrysouter2304
      @harrysouter2304 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Dyson1 excellent and original comment

  • @woo341
    @woo341 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4010

    He's got more tics than a clock.

  • @creepychris420
    @creepychris420 ปีที่แล้ว

    yo just btw - slavoj talking to morpheus meme is what brought me here 😂😂

  • @morganwilliams8506
    @morganwilliams8506 ปีที่แล้ว

    Also I love that he brings up fight club

  • @nallebajs
    @nallebajs 4 ปีที่แล้ว +395

    Interviwer: When you´re in town, do you get approched by local fans?
    Zizek: What do mean by fans!? People hate me...

    • @Contagious93812
      @Contagious93812 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      slovenes hate him because they're jealous of him being famous and successful, that's balkan mentality.

    • @Cream12345Ice
      @Cream12345Ice 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      I'm from Croatia and pretty much all leftists are demonized in ex yugo so not surprising that people hate him

    • @doublegi2880
      @doublegi2880 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@Contagious93812 nah, we don't hate him. But we don't give much of a f*** about him either. Based on individual... on some points we agree with him and on some we don't. If we feel he says something that benefits us or society we're going to give him credit, if we think he's talking nonsense and is going against interests of our nation, we treat him as raving lunatic lol.

    • @LetsGoGetThem
      @LetsGoGetThem 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      You misunderstand, local communists hate him because he isn't romanticizing Yugoslavia.

    • @mareknovotny5441
      @mareknovotny5441 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Cream12345Ice Lets be honest, that goes for the whole eastern block...

  • @stevebob240
    @stevebob240 3 ปีที่แล้ว +599

    I have to rewatch this every once in a while. It never fails to amuse me that Zizek's first words to this man is "I hate life".

  • @TheBarroomHero321
    @TheBarroomHero321 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Am I the only one that hates the title of this video? It's such clickbait-for-the-sake-of-clickbait bullshit that I feel like it undermines both Slavoj's medium and message while also somehow being unintentionally correct.

  • @thegoldenboah3343
    @thegoldenboah3343 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    sorry , i missed the danger part ??!?

  • @revolutionaryinsurrectioni1987
    @revolutionaryinsurrectioni1987 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1272

    "you go to gulag" *sniff*

    • @prinzchen17
      @prinzchen17 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      when does he says that? i want to .gif it..

    • @earthspace8666
      @earthspace8666 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      prinzchen17 He said it in one of his talks, not in this video.

    • @albertcamus929
      @albertcamus929 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@prinzchen17 He also said that to Julian Assange.

  • @nellekzer7148
    @nellekzer7148 3 ปีที่แล้ว +399

    “If you give me power, I’ll know how to use it. That’s why I’m almost afraid of myself”. Damn, this man went from talking about Batman to this in seconds. Definitely shows he’s got range

  • @YouCanCallMeDaddy11587
    @YouCanCallMeDaddy11587 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    legit this guy seems like a good dude

  • @sharkeyes
    @sharkeyes 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ‘In the end all we could really do is think about the fact we can think’

  • @Wharrrrrgarbl
    @Wharrrrrgarbl 5 ปีที่แล้ว +216

    It was nice of him to sit down with Chris Martin from Coldplay

  • @jwjgreenwood9806
    @jwjgreenwood9806 4 ปีที่แล้ว +549

    This guy is the most thoughtful person to do reporting for vice.

    • @DIYTFY
      @DIYTFY 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wrong.

    • @jwjgreenwood9806
      @jwjgreenwood9806 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@DIYTFY short but sweet 👏🤣

    • @pastafari8574
      @pastafari8574 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Chris Martin?