If you want the simple answer, skip to minute 11:00 Simple summary: How to stop wasting your life: Find something you want to do every day and that inspires you to take an active interest in life. Make sure it’s both satisfying and difficult for you, but also of service to others/a higher goal. Hope this video has been useful and helpful. For more, visit: www.patreon.com/julianphilosophy
Brilliant! As a musician/pianist in the US Navy I can’t help but be inspired to practice my discipline every day, as it is both satisfying and difficult, and it is a service to others. Reminds me of Paul Tillich’s concept of “Ultimate Concern.”
Is this basically rejecting current society's goal for more pleasure, and then replacing it with your own goal for more enjoyment(jouissance) in pursuit of some hypothetical pleasure?
Painful but true. I’m struggling to finish my things due to my phone addiction 🥵 but every day I try different ways, and that’s what matters right now.
I've encouraged my young adult daughter to pursue her endeavours in the creative sector. I realised I sold out on my dreams (ironically in IT) . I don't want her ending up messed up like me because of my selling out
At 75 I took up the trumpet. Why? Because my best friend in middle school played trumpet. And only now in this late part of my life do I understand how much I loved that kid. His drive, his desire, his obsession with his instrument made him such a fun person to be with. Actually more than fun, instructive. I saw in him everything I knew I lacked. Where he is now I have no idea. I looked. But at 75 I decided to connect in the only way I knew. Play trumpet. Bought a trumpet, started playing. Just a C major scale is such a pleasure and played with such feeling! I love the trumpet, everything about it, just as I felt for my long ago friend. Middle School feelings are so raw and real. That way. That’s how I feel about the trumpet. So much bittersweet happiness in it. More sweet than the other.
Is there no way, in middle and old age, other to try and rekindle old feelings? Today I saw two teenagers sitting under a tree, the boys head in his girlfriend's lap. I know that there is no greater happiness than what they are likely feeling, and they will remember moments like those the rest of their lives. I can't regain anything like that in any area of my life.
Thank you Julian for making these videos. I have been following your videos for over an year now and it has immensely helped me with grasping concepts related to psychoanalysis and critical theory. Coming from a STEM background and having no training in social sciences, your videos have made me love this field even more. I have been reading and listening to lectures as much as I can and I feel like I cannot do otherwise. Philosophy has also made me reevaluate the kind of work I do and it made me switch my job. Now I work in policy making space where I do data analytics to make better policies. Even tho I think it's a good cause that I work for, a part of me still feels alienated from it, that is I cannot completely make it my own personality (for lack of a better term). If I am to follow Zizek's advice - pick one thing and go to the end, I would love to completely engage myself with philosophy, psychoanalysis, sociology etc but I think my love for these subjects is only because I somehow feel alienated in my day job, or the dissatisfaction I get from my day job is what pushes me to read these things. I am afraid that if I give up my day job and completely devote myself to philosophy, I will end up not liking it? or that it wont bring me the level of satisfaction that I expect it to bring. It is very similar to what Zizek said- how a man thinks that if his wife were to disappear then he could live his life happily with his mistress but it is only because of the dissatisfaction the wife causes him that he enjoys his time with his mistress lol. Would love to hear your thoughts on this.
I'm an Iranian follower of your presentations. You put the idea into words nicely. The climax, to me, was the functionality of the goal's being "of service to others/a higher goal". Thanks Julian..
Plastic pills does a podcast and has come to some conlusion that philsophy is mostly used as a sophisticated self help. These more direct videos are easier to consumer inbetween the brain teasers,
@@asukayin6487 a recent one about it was 164 (patreon) and he goes into it in some of his earlier vlogs. Derrida and politics of friendship (patreon). Surrelist-self help. Basically being a friend of wisdom and other people being along with you on that journey or something to that effect. The main one where he talks about it is old, audio sub atm but it was him outside on a porch with crappy audio talking about his assigned psychoanalytic diagnosis, thats the one where he talks about what Philosophy is for.
I need to buy a beer for whoever introduced you to one piece. Hearing one of my favorite online philosophers talk about my favorite manga is just joy for me in this life 👏🏿👏🏿
THANK YOU for this video, I stumbled upon it by accident and didn't expect to find a possible starting point to solve my struggles as an artist who was ready to give up art. it helped me to change my perspective and realise that I was about to give up something that made me wake up and do something every day, because of some hardship. i finally remembered that hardship, or rather overcoming it, is what made me happy my whole life as an artist.
“The opposite of oppression is depression” reminds me of an argument from Russian literature, that the best lit was produced under the threat of the knout, whether in Imperial times of censorship, the Soviet ideological orthodoxy, or maybe even Putin’s regime currently. When the Soviet Union collapsed, some lamented the end of good lit paradoxically.
Reading SOI for the first time and been trying to wrap my head around symptom/synthome and this helps snap some of that writing into clearer perspective
I dont get the narrative about the old man reading. His demise is not the result of his failure to create meaning in his life that benefits others, but it is simply due to a misunderstanding. I dont get why it should follow from Zizek's argument that you have to do something from which others benefit in order to be contempt
I love this, thank you. I believe you helped unpack 10+ months of future therapy so I can reroute my understanding of my self, my past systems, awareness of my present agency, and direction or purpose to a future Not tied to a past or present authority figure
what if my "symptom" is abusing drugs, living promiscuously, and participating in organised crime? the thing about the modern world is that we have so much padding around us in every way possible we have nothing to do that would serve others, inspire passion and be productive.
Yeah this system basically distinguishes degeneracy and desire by whether or not it can be integrated into society. I think the second point you made is the most important. Hyper abundance and alienation make it so that symptoms can't be sublimated into society. If no one needs me in particular how can I be anything other than a degenerate?
in abusing drugs you are the object not the subject. The drugs master your life. the examples you gave are the narcissistic way of life. And yes the modern world is designed to objectfy humans
True and thats probably why we need to understand that we don't need to enjoy all the time. We feel a duty to enjoy, be "happy" all the time, when in reality there is no such requirement of that and more often than not we need to get rid of this desire of chasing after happiness and enjoyment as the end goal.
I don't get why we shouldn't be psychotic. Like I didn't get the message the story was trying to tell me. The dude was just being a based catalog enjoyer and then the Nazis beat him up for it. Then the guy goes back to the same cafe to go back to enjoying catalogs. That guy seems like a Chad.
Thank you again Julian for this wonderful breakdown. For me, Street Photography has become part of my daily ritual. I absolutely love just Being on the street. However, I did have to find out the eternal project - which led me to Henri Lefebvre's idea of the "Right to the City," which I find worth fighting for. Question: Will you ever introduce the concept of Play? (Huizinga)
so in short, find a purpose in life that 1. will never be completely fulfilled, 2. equally serves yourself and others + not just be a passive agent but to actively shape my life in order to strive to fulfill that purpose got it.
But how? Zizek's purpose was reading books and going to movies with the purpose of writing another and another book. Another guy states here that he is a musician in the US Navy and that is his purpose. These examples imply both work and an artistic talent. Something that most people cannot do. Unless you start to love your work and you see accountants living for the purpose of being accountants, and janitors living for the purpose of cleaning the floors etc...
The solution to the illusion of purpose is a more effective illusion of purpose? Only if you can believe in it. Instead, you could accept reality as it is.
i didn‘t unverstand the difference between ego ideal and super ego, you said that the super ego is the punitive function of the ego ideal, am i right? So basically, the super ego is punishing me if i don’t follow the big other/symbolic order. If I please the super ego, I can‘t win, because I can never reach the ideal ego, so i always remain unhappy and the super ego will always keep punishing me and thereby making me try to please it. So the only option is to not please the super ego and go against the symbolic order???
However, the super ego, by making me unhappy, is the very reason i can experience happiness in the first place. It creates the lack which I strive to fill but by trying to fill it I create an even bigger lack and I try to fill it even more. Thereby we are stuck. We are stuck in two ways, the second way we are stuck is by wanting to narcissistically please ourselves but at the same time wanting to radically please others (thereby we don’t need to know what we want since we only want what the other wants). This only gets worse because nowadays we are ethically obligated to please ourselves, but we don’t know how to please ourselves. Why? Because in order to feel happiness i first need a lack, so i can (temporarily) fill it with my object of desire. The weird thing is that my object of desire is happiness itself, so my super ego punishes me if I‘m unhappy. Life is only there to enjoy yourself.
Im a lacanian and confused by his explaining. Super ego is the Real of the language, ideal ego the imaginary, ego's ideal is the symbolic (the Phallus). the super ego is the rule without the law: "just do it" it's an order. The Phallus is the law: I do this because of that
@@xletix69 that's incorrect, this guy misreads Lacan: what we fear is not the super ego but the feeling of being guilty. Guilty to not truly pursue our desire. If I not accomplysh my true self and live accomplishing others will, sooner or later I will feel guilty and then depressed.
🙄 The part of your brain that "rewards" you with good feels like satisfaction resets because it has to. It's function is so robust that it must reset to be prepared for the vast and varied experiences that activate it. Hilariously, I do think his answer is still pretty close. Psychoanalysis along with some relevant education can help ameliorate this, having goals you can't accomplish within your lifetime can also help.
This point of our work being worth to others/higher goal is something that will keep me thinking about. It's crazy that I already thought about this but not so clearly as in the development of this video. Thank you, sir!
But hasn't Žižek simply swapped out "God", for his work? Has he made his philosophical practice the highest point. For example, Mother Teresa spent her life worshipping God and helping the poor in God's name. I love Žižek's work and he has certainly helped me, but in many ways he is a pure parallel to Mother Tereasa. Great video Julian!
Might be wrong here but in the MT case you just stated, MT would be performing her acts for the Big Other's enjoyment - not herself. That type of mentality is dangerous because this NEED for a BO causes people to search for figures that could be the BO (like Trump figures or influences). ---- Once you realize your NEED for the BO then you could finally start to determine how to live your life (instead of being led by Another). Twofold - a thing you enjoy - serving - and a universal that helps people - alleviate poverty -
@@classic_kennedy "performing her acts for the Big Other's enjoyment - not herself" That's a great point. But wouldn't you always be faced with the problem of what to replace the BO with? I mean, I totally agree that I'll always need a BO, but how do I know if I've put the right thing in its place? For example, Zizek has placed his work in this position?
@@anthonybrett Great question. Your recognition that you're utterly in need of a BO is the first act of your Freedom (it's a revelation). How do you know if you've put the right BO in place? You posit that question and frame it in terms of life & death. Is what I'm doing something I could die for? Is it also very enjoyable for me that I would want to sustain my life so I could continue doing it every day? --- to go back on the first point in the discussion --- the point is when you do something for the enjoyment of the BO, it's actually yourself who enjoys doing the acts, not the BO. This is why Zizek would say find something you love doing - this clears your personal relationship - next, does this thing have a universal relation - an eternal project - something that could never be possibly completed in your life - the enjoyment is in the journey - and this will sustain your cause. Thus Zizek's work in Philosophy or Mother Teresa's work for alleviating Poverty.
@@classic_kennedy That's a great reply. Thankyou. That helped me understand something I didn't quite get in relation to the BO - I need to make sure I'm not a slave to it, and instead form a good working relationship with it. ;)
I don't think this translates well with being/having mode dichotomy. people are unhappy because they con-fuse the two modes. the ego's true role is to bind and that can only be done in being mode.
Yup, the talk of our "freedom", made me laugh, only the rich are free. Things haven't really changed so much since the "fall" of aristocracy. Now instead we're wage slave serfs to the neo-feudal oligarchs and corporate lords.
And once we're out of our pod (free of the illusion), and all our false idols are gone, have we just fallen prey to the ultimate form of ideology? The false ideology that you can escape...
Well ive worked with printing presses maybe throw that junk out too, they don't even like it. How about you go print your own books, quit running your mouth about medieval philosophy.
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If you want the simple answer, skip to minute 11:00
Simple summary: How to stop wasting your life:
Find something you want to do every day and that inspires you to take an active interest in life. Make sure it’s both satisfying and difficult for you, but also of service
to others/a higher goal.
Hope this video has been useful and helpful. For more, visit: www.patreon.com/julianphilosophy
Brilliant! As a musician/pianist in the US Navy I can’t help but be inspired to practice my discipline every day, as it is both satisfying and difficult, and it is a service to others. Reminds me of Paul Tillich’s concept of “Ultimate Concern.”
Is this basically rejecting current society's goal for more pleasure, and then replacing it with your own goal for more enjoyment(jouissance) in pursuit of some hypothetical pleasure?
I remeber Zizek once saying in a lecture, "Pick one thing, and do it to the end."
If you have money for it
Painful but true. I’m struggling to finish my things due to my phone addiction 🥵 but every day I try different ways, and that’s what matters right now.
I've encouraged my young adult daughter to pursue her endeavours in the creative sector. I realised I sold out on my dreams (ironically in IT) . I don't want her ending up messed up like me because of my selling out
@@skyblazeeterno ironic because your daughter has now become your symptom
@@noahlenten8360 whatever you're an internet nobody who knows nothing
At 75 I took up the trumpet. Why? Because my best friend in middle school played trumpet. And only now in this late part of my life do I understand how much I loved that kid. His drive, his desire, his obsession with his instrument
made him such a fun person to be with. Actually more than fun, instructive. I saw in him everything I knew I lacked. Where he is now I have no idea. I looked. But at 75 I decided to connect in the only way I knew. Play trumpet. Bought a trumpet, started playing. Just a C major scale is such a pleasure and played with such feeling! I love the trumpet, everything about it, just as I felt for my long ago friend. Middle School feelings are so raw and real. That way. That’s how I feel about the trumpet. So much bittersweet happiness in it. More sweet than the other.
Kudos for the bravery and drive, beautiful person! Inspiring! ❤
👏👏👏
Is there no way, in middle and old age, other to try and rekindle old feelings? Today I saw two teenagers sitting under a tree, the boys head in his girlfriend's lap. I know that there is no greater happiness than what they are likely feeling, and they will remember moments like those the rest of their lives. I can't regain anything like that in any area of my life.
You are a great man!!
But Slavoj, I cannot afford the rent.
Oh uh …. just get some money.
don't worry, your symptom also serves others, so therefore you should be happy
When you afford the rent you will be empty
Rent is ideological. Squat.
He's saying using postmodern terms that man desires to be heroic.
Thank you Julian for making these videos. I have been following your videos for over an year now and it has immensely helped me with grasping concepts related to psychoanalysis and critical theory. Coming from a STEM background and having no training in social sciences, your videos have made me love this field even more. I have been reading and listening to lectures as much as I can and I feel like I cannot do otherwise.
Philosophy has also made me reevaluate the kind of work I do and it made me switch my job. Now I work in policy making space where I do data analytics to make better policies. Even tho I think it's a good cause that I work for, a part of me still feels alienated from it, that is I cannot completely make it my own personality (for lack of a better term). If I am to follow Zizek's advice - pick one thing and go to the end, I would love to completely engage myself with philosophy, psychoanalysis, sociology etc but I think my love for these subjects is only because I somehow feel alienated in my day job, or the dissatisfaction I get from my day job is what pushes me to read these things. I am afraid that if I give up my day job and completely devote myself to philosophy, I will end up not liking it? or that it wont bring me the level of satisfaction that I expect it to bring.
It is very similar to what Zizek said- how a man thinks that if his wife were to disappear then he could live his life happily with his mistress but it is only because of the dissatisfaction the wife causes him that he enjoys his time with his mistress lol.
Would love to hear your thoughts on this.
Title looked like click-bait but found this nuanced and interesting
Realized I fell for a clickbait 2 minutes into the video. Ended up watching the whole video and took notes aswell.
I'm an Iranian follower of your presentations. You put the idea into words nicely. The climax, to me, was the functionality of the goal's being "of service to others/a higher goal". Thanks Julian..
Plastic pills does a podcast and has come to some conlusion that philsophy is mostly used as a sophisticated self help. These more direct videos are easier to consumer inbetween the brain teasers,
Which episode was that one
@@asukayin6487 a recent one about it was 164 (patreon) and he goes into it in some of his earlier vlogs. Derrida and politics of friendship (patreon). Surrelist-self help.
Basically being a friend of wisdom and other people being along with you on that journey or something to that effect.
The main one where he talks about it is old, audio sub atm but it was him outside on a porch with crappy audio talking about his assigned psychoanalytic diagnosis, thats the one where he talks about what Philosophy is for.
This only occurred because book shops wanted to put all the none fiction onto one shelf.
I need to buy a beer for whoever introduced you to one piece. Hearing one of my favorite online philosophers talk about my favorite manga is just joy for me in this life 👏🏿👏🏿
Im really glad I found your channel Julian, it’s great! You became my daily dose of philosophy!
Love from Poland
THANK YOU for this video, I stumbled upon it by accident and didn't expect to find a possible starting point to solve my struggles as an artist who was ready to give up art. it helped me to change my perspective and realise that I was about to give up something that made me wake up and do something every day, because of some hardship. i finally remembered that hardship, or rather overcoming it, is what made me happy my whole life as an artist.
“The opposite of oppression is depression” reminds me of an argument from Russian literature, that the best lit was produced under the threat of the knout, whether in Imperial times of censorship, the Soviet ideological orthodoxy, or maybe even Putin’s regime currently. When the Soviet Union collapsed, some lamented the end of good lit paradoxically.
Reading SOI for the first time and been trying to wrap my head around symptom/synthome and this helps snap some of that writing into clearer perspective
I dont get the narrative about the old man reading. His demise is not the result of his failure to create meaning in his life that benefits others, but it is simply due to a misunderstanding. I dont get why it should follow from Zizek's argument that you have to do something from which others benefit in order to be contempt
Thank you, I didn't understand this either. Would be curious for more elaboration.
My symptom appreciates your symptom, Thank you for sharing
I love this, thank you. I believe you helped unpack 10+ months of future therapy so I can reroute my understanding of my self, my past systems, awareness of my present agency, and direction or purpose to a future Not tied to a past or present authority figure
I love these videos. Thanks old bean. I can't contribute financially at the moment, but I do dig your work. Cheers
what if my "symptom" is abusing drugs, living promiscuously, and participating in organised crime? the thing about the modern world is that we have so much padding around us in every way possible we have nothing to do that would serve others, inspire passion and be productive.
Yeah this system basically distinguishes degeneracy and desire by whether or not it can be integrated into society. I think the second point you made is the most important. Hyper abundance and alienation make it so that symptoms can't be sublimated into society. If no one needs me in particular how can I be anything other than a degenerate?
in abusing drugs you are the object not the subject. The drugs master your life. the examples you gave are the narcissistic way of life. And yes the modern world is designed to objectfy humans
True and thats probably why we need to understand that we don't need to enjoy all the time. We feel a duty to enjoy, be "happy" all the time, when in reality there is no such requirement of that and more often than not we need to get rid of this desire of chasing after happiness and enjoyment as the end goal.
This was a great video - thank you, Julian.
I don't get why we shouldn't be psychotic. Like I didn't get the message the story was trying to tell me. The dude was just being a based catalog enjoyer and then the Nazis beat him up for it. Then the guy goes back to the same cafe to go back to enjoying catalogs. That guy seems like a Chad.
Great video, with a very well illustrated and supported set of points.
the One Piece example managed to directly speak to my heart
Thanks for sharing that with us 🙏🏽
What`s your take on Gabrielle Rockhill`s critique of Zizek as being "anti" communist and really an apologist for capitalism?
Great video. I'd like to get to know Lacan's ideas before delving more into Zizek, where do i start? Suggestions welcome.
se parli italiano Alfredo Zenoni corpo e linguaggio in psicoanalisi
@@lorenzo_bo Grazie!
Thank you again Julian for this wonderful breakdown. For me, Street Photography has become part of my daily ritual. I absolutely love just Being on the street. However, I did have to find out the eternal project - which led me to Henri Lefebvre's idea of the "Right to the City," which I find worth fighting for. Question: Will you ever introduce the concept of Play? (Huizinga)
The critique of everyday life is a very good set of works. 'The street' and 'daily life' became two of sociologys main focal points from then on.
@@DJWESG1 Absolutely, I'm currently reading volume 1 on it. Thanks!
9:30 Essentially treating the cause not the symptom, similar to health issue.
so in short, find a purpose in life that 1. will never be completely fulfilled, 2. equally serves yourself and others
+ not just be a passive agent but to actively shape my life in order to strive to fulfill that purpose
got it.
But how?
Zizek's purpose was reading books and going to movies with the purpose of writing another and another book.
Another guy states here that he is a musician in the US Navy and that is his purpose.
These examples imply both work and an artistic talent. Something that most people cannot do. Unless you start to love your work and you see accountants living for the purpose of being accountants, and janitors living for the purpose of cleaning the floors etc...
@@TrivialWasteSisyphus
zen breathing and zen mindfulness..❤❤❤ philosophy helps to foundate the 3D structure of our very limited mind...zen mindfulness helps to think beyond
Julian I think u need to invest in some kind of microphone. It will improve ur audio quality.
That was an epic explanation ❤
Beautiful channel and video
The solution to the illusion of purpose is a more effective illusion of purpose? Only if you can believe in it. Instead, you could accept reality as it is.
This reminds me of the japanese concept of ikigai!!!
but what if i want to buy an expensive car because of it's quality and durability and not to show it off?
I am the pirate king!
Zizek is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
I never thought sheep can comment.
i didn‘t unverstand the difference between ego ideal and super ego, you said that the super ego is the punitive function of the ego ideal, am i right? So basically, the super ego is punishing me if i don’t follow the big other/symbolic order. If I please the super ego, I can‘t win, because I can never reach the ideal ego, so i always remain unhappy and the super ego will always keep punishing me and thereby making me try to please it. So the only option is to not please the super ego and go against the symbolic order???
However, the super ego, by making me unhappy, is the very reason i can experience happiness in the first place. It creates the lack which I strive to fill but by trying to fill it I create an even bigger lack and I try to fill it even more. Thereby we are stuck. We are stuck in two ways, the second way we are stuck is by wanting to narcissistically please ourselves but at the same time wanting to radically please others (thereby we don’t need to know what we want since we only want what the other wants).
This only gets worse because nowadays we are ethically obligated to please ourselves, but we don’t know how to please ourselves. Why? Because in order to feel happiness i first need a lack, so i can (temporarily) fill it with my object of desire. The weird thing is that my object of desire is happiness itself, so my super ego punishes me if I‘m unhappy. Life is only there to enjoy yourself.
Im a lacanian and confused by his explaining. Super ego is the Real of the language, ideal ego the imaginary, ego's ideal is the symbolic (the Phallus). the super ego is the rule without the law: "just do it" it's an order. The Phallus is the law: I do this because of that
@@xletix69 that's incorrect, this guy misreads Lacan: what we fear is not the super ego but the feeling of being guilty. Guilty to not truly pursue our desire. If I not accomplysh my true self and live accomplishing others will, sooner or later I will feel guilty and then depressed.
🙄
The part of your brain that "rewards" you with good feels like satisfaction resets because it has to. It's function is so robust that it must reset to be prepared for the vast and varied experiences that activate it.
Hilariously, I do think his answer is still pretty close. Psychoanalysis along with some relevant education can help ameliorate this, having goals you can't accomplish within your lifetime can also help.
This point of our work being worth to others/higher goal is something that will keep me thinking about. It's crazy that I already thought about this but not so clearly as in the development of this video. Thank you, sir!
Спасибо, Джулиан
Illuminating!
>Hope this video has been useful to you
you have no idea, Julian! thank you for your project, it can make an atheist believe in the sublime purpose
I'd never expect a one piece reference lol
But I have nothing left after my day in the call centre.
But hasn't Žižek simply swapped out "God", for his work? Has he made his philosophical practice the highest point. For example, Mother Teresa spent her life worshipping God and helping the poor in God's name. I love Žižek's work and he has certainly helped me, but in many ways he is a pure parallel to Mother Tereasa. Great video Julian!
Might be wrong here but in the MT case you just stated, MT would be performing her acts for the Big Other's enjoyment - not herself. That type of mentality is dangerous because this NEED for a BO causes people to search for figures that could be the BO (like Trump figures or influences). ---- Once you realize your NEED for the BO then you could finally start to determine how to live your life (instead of being led by Another). Twofold - a thing you enjoy - serving - and a universal that helps people - alleviate poverty -
@@angoberg It was great answer. Thankyou.
@@classic_kennedy "performing her acts for the Big Other's enjoyment - not herself" That's a great point. But wouldn't you always be faced with the problem of what to replace the BO with? I mean, I totally agree that I'll always need a BO, but how do I know if I've put the right thing in its place?
For example, Zizek has placed his work in this position?
@@anthonybrett Great question. Your recognition that you're utterly in need of a BO is the first act of your Freedom (it's a revelation). How do you know if you've put the right BO in place? You posit that question and frame it in terms of life & death. Is what I'm doing something I could die for? Is it also very enjoyable for me that I would want to sustain my life so I could continue doing it every day? --- to go back on the first point in the discussion --- the point is when you do something for the enjoyment of the BO, it's actually yourself who enjoys doing the acts, not the BO. This is why Zizek would say find something you love doing - this clears your personal relationship - next, does this thing have a universal relation - an eternal project - something that could never be possibly completed in your life - the enjoyment is in the journey - and this will sustain your cause. Thus Zizek's work in Philosophy or Mother Teresa's work for alleviating Poverty.
@@classic_kennedy That's a great reply. Thankyou. That helped me understand something I didn't quite get in relation to the BO - I need to make sure I'm not a slave to it, and instead form a good working relationship with it. ;)
It sounds like the idea from the Man is an animal in need of a Master (live in Berlin!) 24m
No wonder a lot of Buddhist sects main goal is to enlighten every being at once
I don't think this translates well with being/having mode dichotomy. people are unhappy because they con-fuse the two modes. the ego's true role is to bind and that can only be done in being mode.
it could, it could translate, but not easy.
But why? It seems to be a pacifiers. From were the normative come from? A taste of Camus.
This was actually extraordinarily insightful. Thanks
Stop scrolling its wasting your life😊
lol he is in the lobster business
Only smoking weed gets you out of this deadlock 🎉 God I miss those days
IS this Zizek suppose to be a philosopher, not an sef help "guru"? Maybe Heidegger was right, saying that philosophy is dead or over.
Wouldn't it all just be so convenient if we had God?
Мне это нужно...? Надеюсь нет! Но на всякий случай ознакомлюсь...
да, нужно. етот ютуб канал всем нужен
@@Yash42189 императив канала джулиана дэ медейроса....
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Its easy for ppl with money to say such things.
Beat me to it
Was searching for this comment before making one
Yours is the only correct comment here
Yup, the talk of our "freedom", made me laugh, only the rich are free. Things haven't really changed so much since the "fall" of aristocracy. Now instead we're wage slave serfs to the neo-feudal oligarchs and corporate lords.
There are people poor in money or poor in spirit , quite often both.
noice
The path is jihad for those with the courage..
Break us out of our pods and reduce the false idols to rubble and nothingness
And once we're out of our pod (free of the illusion), and all our false idols are gone, have we just fallen prey to the ultimate form of ideology? The false ideology that you can escape...
@@anthonybrett nothingness is nothingness so long as we know nothing..
God
Freak.
@@lilnoir4213 my dk and iq is only average........
I try to be as transparent as possible because i can
What a clickbate, shame
Don't waste it by reading philosophical ideas , language fails to define everything.
I think Zizek is write, but for the opposite reason.
wdym?
@@xletix69 just kidding. It is just something I heard him say.
God is the ego ideal; the worst one
Your video is way too quiet. Fix your audio issues.
Stop wasting your life by telling other people how to stop wasting their lives ;)
Thats why i do Bonsai.
Well ive worked with printing presses maybe throw that junk out too, they don't even like it. How about you go print your own books, quit running your mouth about medieval philosophy.
the world is all simulacra