"Are you kidding!? I am totally horrified, and so on." that is now my absolute favorite Zizek quote ever. I will say that last part, if I am here at the end of things.
He also has an extremely thick accent. They should also hang some tapestries or curtains in the room to cut the reverberation. That room has a very pronounced echo. I'll bet that room is bare walls and a hard wood or plaster ceiling. The people and their cloths will do some of that damping or absorption of sound waves but perhaps the audience isn't very large and too much of the seating is vacant? Even the leather covering you can see on the bench behind him (and in the rest of the room maybe)- is more erverberant than fabric upholstery. Funny name - lord of shit. Why such a know opinion of yourself?. How about GrafvonSheis? But it sounds so much prettier in French.
What he says about Christian Atheism is really quite interesting. It seems like he talks about Christian faith like a self-fullfilling prophecy: Because there is a community of believers who believe in some form of Christianity, the promise of belief, like community and caring for each other, becomes a reality and is perhaps even reinforced, and if I understand it correctly, Žižek even says that the gospel acknowledges this fact on a meta-level. The question for me is then: Does it still work if you practice Christian faith while believing/knowing it is a self-fullfilling prophecy, or is the 'belief' required? I wondered about this often. As a Christian myself, I have had spiritual experiences, but I know from a philosophical perspective, that these are not exclusive to Christianity and happpen in many cultures. So it would make sense to look at the Trinity as more like a philosophical concept, with the One God pointing to universality. Maybe it is possible to 'believe' as well as question the reality of belief.
Depends on what type of Christian I think. There is a completely different outlook depending on whether you are a Catholic or a Protestant. The Protestant outlook which births the liberal humanist world of individualism very much aligns with Zizeks position here but I would argue the Catholic and the Orthodox position do not.
I've listened to him for a while, but I don't see how total immanence can work. Another word for transcendence is hope. Without transcendence (some kind of "God" not a Man in the Sky, but maybe Aquinas's "Being itself" or something unnameable like John of the Cross's 'nada, nada, nada")) we are still stuck in history, which is never ending carnage.
The history or religion is a history of carnage. Belief in religion and its attendant sociological symbols systems is merely the weakness of the human mind projected onto history. Humans are animals, they are afraid of their own death. religion makes them feel 'safe'. To maintain that feeling or state of safety they are not only willing to suspend the higher functions of their evolved consciousness but also to murder. The killing of another human is the primary progenitive act of culture, this is the secret moment 99% of humans hide from and avert their eyes.
What Zizak is saying @19:40 about Ukraine's options are about the same as could be said for Gaza. Israel wants their land and property on the cheap. Either they try somehow to fight back and not leave or they will all be penniless refugees forced to accept the UN dole or the patience and kindness of neighboring states for their basic needs. If all the men in Gaza weren't Hamas before the invasion what choice would any have now as so many have seen their whole families blown away? It is not insane to think that the music festival attack wasn't just what many in Israel may have really wanted in their hearts all along. It's a handy excuse to proceed with expansionist plans that would be otherwise damned as blatantly expansionist without it. The Israelis never provide compensation to refugees. As the occupying power in the West Bank, they shamelessly cherry pick the best land and resources for their own needs and have the bare faced chutzpah to blame the losers for getting upset about it. The coast will be grabbed up by the Israelis who have no way to expand but out. Israelis have been eager for lebensraum for decades and the Gazans only stand in their way. Apparently the Israel's don't believe in eminent domain compensation except to themselves. And unlike the Palestinians, never accept, unless forced to, the opinion of any courts higher then their own. There are decades of UN records that itemize the situation. Isn't it amazing how "god" can tell a believer what to do that really only reflects what they want to do anyway? Scripture can have a very self serving aspect. The Bible says everything but the kitchen sink and If they had them at the writing those would be mentioned too. What doesn't work to support necessity, but also ambition can often, if not always, be ignored or even edited. To be sure both sides do that. The scriptures always have a core of what could only be called motivational propaganda. They could also be accused of providing excuses for what might otherwise be called criminal behavior. We always tell "God" what to do or we would invent God to suit the situation. God is always a matter of interpretation. God tends to be dependant on living larynx. How else can one explain the plethora of sects and creeds in its name? And the speaker is essentially the artist painting God's portrait. That can be done beautifully or hideously depending on the artist.
He talkes too much and so on and so on, …but he’s an analytical genius. I like the 6 episodes Steven West did about him on his show “philosophize this!”. Highly recommended ❤
Symbolic efficiency is a major tenet of right wing without a counter on the left. Think of how Maga, swastika, etc. so efficiently delivers an emotional reaction and suite of beliefs
I think it’s because left liberals who grabbed the wheel of popular left movements long ago have spun off into absurdity the left habit of intellectualising and - more importantly - abstracting every issue. You can’t have any hope of appealing to people when you’re operating at a level of abstraction far beyond the level at which most people live their lives most of the time. What political program can you even devise, let alone explain, when in political terms you might as well be an alien from another planet?
@torquemaddertorquemadder2080 Lack of efficiency of the Left is part of the opening of the video, as a highlight and main point. The answer is no, but yes/no doesn't change anything does it?
I mean... that's literally the counter-intuitive revisionist point he is trying to make. He has not missed the fact that Hegel is referred to by almost everyone else as the climactic figure of the German idealist movement.
@vbnnv Well... this is not a university tutorial. And im not the zizek-whisperer. So you cant really expect a stranger to explain Zizek and his take on hegel to you in one short YT comment. I'm just letting you know that, obviously, as a Hegel scholar.. he is well aware that Hegel is normally considered the arch idealist... and Marx the self-consciously materialist inheritor. Zizek is postmodern enough that he agrees with many of the 60s-90s 'high theory' era critiques of Marxism. He thinks Marx(ism) does idealise history by emphasising a materialist substrate that can be read off like a pre-written script with regard to the historical development of society. Ironically Zizek thinks Hegel did NOT fall into this trap. And that it was Hegel who offered the best approach to taking the material world as we find it... in his dialectical method. I'm not sure he's right in what he says about Marx(ism)... even taking into account that he is just trying to be polemical. But I'll leave it there.
Greenpeace also lobbies for politicians and donates money to certain politicians that are pro-environment. Are American Presidents picked by Greenpeace now?
@@EuropeanEmpireEUproblem is you get canceled for “anti Semitism” if your opinion on Israel Palestine isn’t bloodthirsty hitlerite genocidal towards Palestinians.
@@EmmaYaBasta 100,000,000+ people dead in the 20th century says otherwise. The facts of reality don’t care about your feelings, your ignorance, or your delusions. Cope and seethe.
@@giaximoi if I said Trump was who was on my mind. Obviously not Bernie Sanders. Are you saying we should pay attention to old men who lie and steal and forget their mistakes? You just want to argue. Please think before you comment. I’m asking too much omg.
I was talking about how trump gets attention while we ignore people like Bernie. Gosh there’s old people who are amazing. Those are the ones we should pay attention to.
With all due respect to Mr Zizek, he is a communist so does not get to lecture us on western values, some of his values are warped beyond that which can be seen as acceptable within a liberal democracy and while I do agree with some of his other values, when taken as a whole, he does not have the a leg to stand on to dictate how our society should progress when he himself holds such regressive values.
You should read “Trouble in Paradise “ I do find that most philosophers are not actually telling us how to validate- it’s more sharing intelligent ideas. It’s more important to grow and find similarities. Culture in itself depends on so many factors it also can be a survival mechanism due to climate and how you harvest your food and access to protect yourself against survival. Someone living in the rain forest compared to someone living in a herded community deserves respect. In the last 20 years we have learnt so much and more people are going back to study the science of herbal remedies rather than mass production of highly processed foods and medicines. As he said if you look at a painting close up you see many faults but look at it from a distance you see the beauty.
🐟 22. ILLEGITIMATE GOVERNANCES: SOCIALISM (and its more extreme form, communism) is intrinsically evil, because it is based on the ideology of social and economic egalitarianism, which is both a theoretical and a practical impossibility. Equality exists solely in abstract concepts such as mathematics and arguably in the sub-atomic realm. Many proponents of socialism argue that it is purely an economic system and therefore independent of any particular form of governance. However, it is inconceivable that socialism/communism could be implemented on a nationwide scale without any form of government intervention. If a relatively small number of persons wish to unite in order to form a commune or worker-cooperative, that is their prerogative, but it could never work in a country with a large population, because there will always exist entrepreneurs desirous of engaging in wealth-building enterprises. Even a musician who composes a hit tune wants his song to succeed and earn him inordinate wealth. Socialism reduces individual citizens to utilities, who, in practice, are used to support the ruling elite, who are invariably despotic scoundrels, and very far from ideal leaders (i.e. compassionate and righteous monarchs). Those citizens who display talent in business or the arts are either oppressed, or their gifts are coercively utilized by the corrupt state. Despite purporting to be a fair and equitable system of wealth distribution, those in leadership positions seem to live a far more luxurious lifestyle than the mass of menial workers. Wealth is effectively stolen from the rich. Most destructively, virtuous and holy teachings (“dharma”, in Sanskrit) are repressed by the irreligious and ILLEGITIMATE “government”. The argument that some form of government WELFARE programme is essential to aid those who are unable to financially-support themselves for reasons beyond their control, is fallacious. A righteous ruler (i.e. a saintly monarch) will ensure the welfare of each and every citizen by encouraging private welfare. There is no need for a king to extort money from his subjects in order to feed and clothe the impoverished. Of course, in the highly-unlikely event that civilians are unwilling to help a person in dire straits, the king would step-in to assist that person, as one would expect from a patriarch (father of his people). The head of any nation ought to be the penultimate patriarch, not a selfish buffoon. DEMOCRACY is almost as evil, because, just as the rabble favoured the murderous Barabbas over the good King Jesus, the ignorant masses will overwhelmingly vote for the candidate which promises to fulfil their inane desires, rather than one which will enforce the law, and promote a wholesome and just society. Read Chapter 12 for the most authoritative and concise exegesis of law, morality, and ethics, currently available. Even in the miraculous scenario where the vast majority of the population are holy and righteous citizens, it is still immoral for them to vote for a seemingly-righteous leader. This is because that leader will not be, by definition, a king. As clearly and logically explicated in the previous chapter of this Holy Scripture, MONARCHY is the only lawful form of governance. If an elected ruler is truly righteous, he will not be able to condone the fact that the citizens are paying him to perform a job (which is a working-class role), and that an inordinate amount of time, money and resources are being wasted on political campaigning. Furthermore, an actual ruler does not wimpishly pander to voters - he takes power by (divinely-mandated) force, as one would expect from the penultimate alpha-male in society (the ultimate alpha-male being a priest). The thought of children voting for who will be their parents or teachers, would seem utterly RIDICULOUS to the average person, yet most believe that they are qualified to choose their own ruler - they are most assuredly not. Just as a typical child fails to understand that a piece of sweet, juicy, healthy, delicious fruit is more beneficial for them than a cone of pus-infested, fattening, diabetes-inducing ice-cream, so too can the uneducated proletariat not understand that they are unqualified to choose their own leader, even after it is logically explained to them (as it is in this chapter, as well as in the previous chapter). And by “uneducated”, it is simply meant that they are misguided in the realities of life and in righteous living (“dharma”, in Sanskrit), not in facts and figures or in technical training. Intelligence doesn't necessarily correlate to wisdom. No socialist or democratic government will educate its citizens sufficiently well that the citizens have the knowledge of how to usurp their rule. To put it frankly, democracy is rule by the “lowest common denominator”. It should be obvious that ANARCHY can never ever succeed, because even the smallest possible social unit (the nuclear family) requires a dominator. Any family will fall-apart without a strict male household head. In fact, without the husband/father, there is no family, by definition. The English noun “husband” comes from the Old Norse word “hûsbôndi”, meaning “master of the house”. The same paradigm applies to the extended family, which depends on a strong patriarchal figure (customarily, the eldest or most senior male). Likewise with clans, tribes, villages, towns, cities, and nations or countries. Unfortunately, there are many otherwise-intelligent persons who honestly believe that an ENTIRE country can smoothly run without a leader in place. Any sane person can easily understand that even a nuclear family is unable to function properly without a head of the house, what to speak of a populous nation. The reason for anarchists' distrust of any kind of government is due to the corrupt nature of democratic governments, and the adulteration of the monarchy in recent centuries. However, if anarchists were to understand that most all so-called “kings/queens” in recent centuries were not even close to being true monarchs, they may change their stance on that inane “system”. Most of the problems in human society are directly or indirectly attributable to this relatively modern phenomenon (non-monarchies), since it is the government’s role and sacred DUTY to enforce the law (see Chapter 12), and non-monarchical governments are themselves unlawful. One of the many sinister characteristics of democracy, socialism, and other evil forms of governance, is the desire for their so-called “leaders” to control, or at least influence, the private lives of every single citizen (hence the term “Nanny State”). For example, in the wicked, decadent nations in which this holy scripture was composed, The Philippine Islands and The Southland (or “Australia”, as it is known in the Latin tongue), the DEMONIC governments try, and largely succeed, in controlling the rights of parents to properly raise, discipline and punish their children according to their own morals, compulsory vaccination of infants, enforcing feminist ideology, limiting legitimate powers an employer has over his servants, subsidizing animal agriculture, persecuting religious leaders (even to imprisonment and death, believe it or not. Personally, I have been jailed thrice for executing God’s perfect and pure will), and even trying to negatively influence what people eat and wear. Not that a government shouldn’t control what its citizens wear in public, but it should ensure that they are MODESTLY dressed, according to the guidelines outlined in Chapter 28, which is hardly the case in Australia, the Philippines, and similar nations. At least ninety-nine per cent of Filipinas, for instance, are transvestinal, despite Philippines pretending to be a religious nation. Cont...
@@jamespires3383, search the Stanford University Encyclopedia of Philosophy or Wikipedia (both are online encyclopedia) for "LOGICAL FALLACIES". Then, return to this comment thread and inform me which LOGICAL FALLACY you have just used, Slave.
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Haven't watched a Žižek talk in like 6+ years, literally the first words out his mouth "My God I want to be like Hitler", classic
He's the best. 😆
Mind Begs the Question:
▪︎D3ath to Jews chants - Genocidal
▪︎D3ath to Arabs chants - Acceptable?
lol I went to the comments before watching. thank you for making me laugh
Mind Begs the Question:
▪︎D3ath to Jews chants - Genocidal
▪︎D3ath to Arabs chants - Acceptable?
"Are you kidding!? I am totally horrified, and so on." that is now my absolute favorite Zizek quote ever. I will say that last part, if I am here at the end of things.
MI6-Žižek is like Jazz.
You listen to it while reworking your CV.
Doing some models for my job, instead of music I listen Zizek 😂😂
Are you aware that there are literally people making $$$ putting Zizek to beats - jazz included?
@@JapanDriver Are you aware that MI6-Peterson and MI6-Zizek literally proof Hitler with Joachim Bruhns thesis of the Spiegelspiel?
13:13 “if you take power 2 years of gulag for this mistake”
LMAO.
Finally, Zizek is getting the space and diffusion he deserves. Total love and respect for his work, best greetings from Argentina. We miss you here.
what do you mean finally? The guy's past his expiration date for decades now
I am a simple man. If I see Žižek, I click.
A simple man alright. Might want to sometimes critically think of the gibberish he's spouting too. Just saying...
Interviewer's shadow looks like that of Trump
Those shadows bruh its like im watching a noir
Wow, just wow, Because having such a inclination to talk and deliberate on burning issues, is Rare
He’s a bit of a dumpster fire as philosophers go.
> Begins talk
> Immediately asks to be treated like Hitler was
What a man.
Best modern philosopher I know
MI6-Philosopher.
Byung-Chul Han gives him a run for the money.
@@9000ck :-D
@@potrahead What?? pics or it didnt happen
@@lf6190 Laughing is not a sign of a good mood, bra..
Why did the Interviewer interrupt him at minute 10. I was really invested in the topic.
I mean, at least let him try to wrap it up
I love his sense of humour. Priceless!
Merci ! I was waiting for this.
His original answer was the most fascinating part. I wish it had gone on...
All the Oxford “excellence” and “talent” in that room and this is the audio and video quality that results, lmao
He also has an extremely thick accent. They should also hang some tapestries or curtains in the room to cut the reverberation. That room has a very pronounced echo. I'll bet that room is bare walls and a hard wood or plaster ceiling. The people and their cloths will do some of that damping or absorption of sound waves but perhaps the audience isn't very large and too much of the seating is vacant? Even the leather covering you can see on the bench behind him (and in the rest of the room maybe)- is more erverberant than fabric upholstery.
Funny name - lord of shit. Why such a know opinion of yourself?. How about GrafvonSheis? But it sounds so much prettier in French.
Magnificent perspectives!!
What he says about Christian Atheism is really quite interesting. It seems like he talks about Christian faith like a self-fullfilling prophecy: Because there is a community of believers who believe in some form of Christianity, the promise of belief, like community and caring for each other, becomes a reality and is perhaps even reinforced, and if I understand it correctly, Žižek even says that the gospel acknowledges this fact on a meta-level. The question for me is then: Does it still work if you practice Christian faith while believing/knowing it is a self-fullfilling prophecy, or is the 'belief' required? I wondered about this often. As a Christian myself, I have had spiritual experiences, but I know from a philosophical perspective, that these are not exclusive to Christianity and happpen in many cultures. So it would make sense to look at the Trinity as more like a philosophical concept, with the One God pointing to universality.
Maybe it is possible to 'believe' as well as question the reality of belief.
Depends on what type of Christian I think. There is a completely different outlook depending on whether you are a Catholic or a Protestant. The Protestant outlook which births the liberal humanist world of individualism very much aligns with Zizeks position here but I would argue the Catholic and the Orthodox position do not.
I've listened to him for a while, but I don't see how total immanence can work. Another word for transcendence is hope. Without transcendence (some kind of "God" not a Man in the Sky, but maybe Aquinas's "Being itself" or something unnameable like John of the Cross's 'nada, nada, nada")) we are still stuck in history, which is never ending carnage.
The history or religion is a history of carnage. Belief in religion and its attendant sociological symbols systems is merely the weakness of the human mind projected onto history. Humans are animals, they are afraid of their own death. religion makes them feel 'safe'. To maintain that feeling or state of safety they are not only willing to suspend the higher functions of their evolved consciousness but also to murder. The killing of another human is the primary progenitive act of culture, this is the secret moment 99% of humans hide from and avert their eyes.
4:30 excellent understanding of holy ghost and Christs return, bravo
he's a marxist.
This probably is the most interesting man that ever lived.
Haha read wider
lots of love for great zizek from pakistan
What Zizak is saying @19:40 about Ukraine's options are about the same as could be said for Gaza. Israel wants their land and property on the cheap. Either they try somehow to fight back and not leave or they will all be penniless refugees forced to accept the UN dole or the patience and kindness of neighboring states for their basic needs. If all the men in Gaza weren't Hamas before the invasion what choice would any have now as so many have seen their whole families blown away? It is not insane to think that the music festival attack wasn't just what many in Israel may have really wanted in their hearts all along. It's a handy excuse to proceed with expansionist plans that would be otherwise damned as blatantly expansionist without it. The Israelis never provide compensation to refugees. As the occupying power in the West Bank, they shamelessly cherry pick the best land and resources for their own needs and have the bare faced chutzpah to blame the losers for getting upset about it. The coast will be grabbed up by the Israelis who have no way to expand but out. Israelis have been eager for lebensraum for decades and the Gazans only stand in their way. Apparently the Israel's don't believe in eminent domain compensation except to themselves. And unlike the Palestinians, never accept, unless forced to, the opinion of any courts higher then their own. There are decades of UN records that itemize the situation.
Isn't it amazing how "god" can tell a believer what to do that really only reflects what they want to do anyway? Scripture can have a very self serving aspect. The Bible says everything but the kitchen sink and If they had them at the writing those would be mentioned too. What doesn't work to support necessity, but also ambition can often, if not always, be ignored or even edited. To be sure both sides do that. The scriptures always have a core of what could only be called motivational propaganda. They could also be accused of providing excuses for what might otherwise be called criminal behavior. We always tell "God" what to do or we would invent God to suit the situation. God is always a matter of interpretation. God tends to be dependant on living larynx. How else can one explain the plethora of sects and creeds in its name? And the speaker is essentially the artist painting God's portrait. That can be done beautifully or hideously depending on the artist.
"I want to be like Hitler!" Slavoj Žižek
Not a great quote to have on your resume! 😂😂😂
He talkes too much and so on and so on, …but he’s an analytical genius. I like the 6 episodes Steven West did about him on his show “philosophize this!”. Highly recommended ❤
33 min is nothing 😭😭
arre bhai Zizek!if you were in India once again, I would have called you 'Vivek' hehehelol.. really good talk!
Is there a Part Three for audience questions?
Thanks for asking, same
Symbolic efficiency is a major tenet of right wing without a counter on the left. Think of how Maga, swastika, etc. so efficiently delivers an emotional reaction and suite of beliefs
_""Symbolic efficiency""_ I'm guessing you learned this phrase within the last three months. Am I correct?
nicely put
I think it’s because left liberals who grabbed the wheel of popular left movements long ago have spun off into absurdity the left habit of intellectualising and - more importantly - abstracting every issue. You can’t have any hope of appealing to people when you’re operating at a level of abstraction far beyond the level at which most people live their lives most of the time. What political program can you even devise, let alone explain, when in political terms you might as well be an alien from another planet?
@torquemaddertorquemadder2080 Lack of efficiency of the Left is part of the opening of the video, as a highlight and main point. The answer is no, but yes/no doesn't change anything does it?
What? When did Hegel become a materialist? 3:32
I mean... that's literally the counter-intuitive revisionist point he is trying to make. He has not missed the fact that Hegel is referred to by almost everyone else as the climactic figure of the German idealist movement.
@@Hic_Rhodus And what's the point? Or how does he think Hegel is materialistic?
It's ridiculous, post Marxists proposing all these nonsense.
@vbnnv Well... this is not a university tutorial. And im not the zizek-whisperer. So you cant really expect a stranger to explain Zizek and his take on hegel to you in one short YT comment. I'm just letting you know that, obviously, as a Hegel scholar.. he is well aware that Hegel is normally considered the arch idealist... and Marx the self-consciously materialist inheritor. Zizek is postmodern enough that he agrees with many of the 60s-90s 'high theory' era critiques of Marxism. He thinks Marx(ism) does idealise history by emphasising a materialist substrate that can be read off like a pre-written script with regard to the historical development of society. Ironically Zizek thinks Hegel did NOT fall into this trap. And that it was Hegel who offered the best approach to taking the material world as we find it... in his dialectical method. I'm not sure he's right in what he says about Marx(ism)... even taking into account that he is just trying to be polemical. But I'll leave it there.
I thought it was a joke lol
Mind Begs the Question:
▪︎If AIPAC influence/interfere
▪︎In USA Politics/Elections
▪︎USA President is picked by
▪︎Americans/USA or AIPAC/Israel?
Greenpeace also lobbies for politicians and donates money to certain politicians that are pro-environment.
Are American Presidents picked by Greenpeace now?
@@EuropeanEmpireEUproblem is you get canceled for “anti Semitism” if your opinion on Israel Palestine isn’t bloodthirsty hitlerite genocidal towards Palestinians.
@@EuropeanEmpireEU Almost the entire Congress doesn't attend the annual Greenpeace conference, but they do AIPAC.
ty for my thanksgiving gift
Ebrahim did a great job keeping his dog on a leash in this presentation.
He was very poor.
Who is the dog in this scenario?
@@evetrue2615 zizek lol
what the fuck ?
the chemistry i feel between the figures on stage is there in the cultural kung fu
Beautiful crazy dynamic out there but it doesn't care about we feas.
For Zizek, order is possible only when it is coordinared by an Other. His theory of power is not subtle.
can you elaborate further on that please
@a_nx-t5494 Read the paper 'Some 'Misunderstandings' on Desire' by Maurizio Lazzarato.
@@dillegitante Thanx for the ref :)
is calling syria a proxy war also insulting to the syrian people? or vietnam
Learn, learn & learn 👌
The pretty one, AOC. Yes, indeed. :D
What did he do with the Holy Ghost?
This is coherent and interesting
Look at the shadows, it oddly looks like he is talking to Trump lol
'Sufferin Succotash'
Video quality fail
I don't think the moderator was getting any of Slavoj's jokes😆
Overanalayze every phenomena is what continental philosophers excellent at. But I enjoy half of it, and at least some of it I find to be true 😀
This guy's theology is awful.
Is there a good theology?
Is there a theology that isn’t?
@@TobiasC-mg4zkof course.
The Actual enemy is the fact of ignorance, and arrogance, and stubbornness
you daggers drawn said it better before I remembered
zizek has become irrelevant
Turns out, Zizek is an avid poster
Poser?
@@anthonyhulse1248 nope, poster
Socialism comes with freedom and leads to communism and leaves with blood
What you fear about communism is authoritarian dictatorship and oligarchic kleptocracy. Congratulations, we're there.
Utter tosh.
@@EmmaYaBasta 100,000,000+ people dead in the 20th century says otherwise. The facts of reality don’t care about your feelings, your ignorance, or your delusions. Cope and seethe.
It might be a little bit more complext than that. But don't worry, writing this kind of comment makes you look really nuanced.
How long did it take you to come up with that, Mr Big Brain?
When he said he is for RADICAL VACCINATION..he died for me that day.
Idiots shouldn't bother with Zizek.
Thuffering thuccotash!
Why do we keep listening to old men who have a long track record of being wrong expecting wisdom? Find yourself. Find the truth. Heal. Spread love.
I’m perplexed as to why would you take the time to write such a stupid comment. Take your bumper sticker philosophy elsewhere.
you will be an old man, with a long track record of being wrong and yet feel compelled to tell people what to think, it seem youre gaining practice
@ it was for people with intellect. Don’t worry about it. Go on as you were. You’re obviously amazing as is.
@@giaximoi if I said Trump was who was on my mind. Obviously not Bernie Sanders. Are you saying we should pay attention to old men who lie and steal and forget their mistakes? You just want to argue. Please think before you comment. I’m asking too much omg.
I was talking about how trump gets attention while we ignore people like Bernie. Gosh there’s old people who are amazing. Those are the ones we should pay attention to.
He is wrong on just everything, but I still love Slavoj
Not at all
I dunno, I think his point about the vulgarity of ordinary people is pretty on point. People don't seem to really be so principled as we think.
blah blah blah
Zizek is a certified yappaholic
He's a junk philosopher. If you want to know why google Slavoj Žižek controversy.
He likes the The great dictator too
With all due respect to Mr Zizek, he is a communist so does not get to lecture us on western values, some of his values are warped beyond that which can be seen as acceptable within a liberal democracy and while I do agree with some of his other values, when taken as a whole, he does not have the a leg to stand on to dictate how our society should progress when he himself holds such regressive values.
I'm sorry the authorities forced you to click on this video. Hope you're ok.
You should read “Trouble in Paradise “ I do find that most philosophers are not actually telling us how to validate- it’s more sharing intelligent ideas. It’s more important to grow and find similarities. Culture in itself depends on so many factors it also can be a survival mechanism due to climate and how you harvest your food and access to protect yourself against survival. Someone living in the rain forest compared to someone living in a herded community deserves respect. In the last 20 years we have learnt so much and more people are going back to study the science of herbal remedies rather than mass production of highly processed foods and medicines. As he said if you look at a painting close up you see many faults but look at it from a distance you see the beauty.
Marx was a western philosopher who wrote his thesis on Greek Philosophy, the birthplace of western culture
@@LittleChekahe may have been from the West, but his theories and later enforcement of them are roundly rejected as being compatible western value
what a stupid comment. " western values" LOL show us your western hairy ass xd
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Interesting
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33 minutes of evasion and repeating they same nonsense he's been spouting for the last 20 years.
Glad that Trump won
Thanks for letting us know.
Trump is your president
Why is he calling males 'she'?
I love how random Mr. Žižek is.
Which isn't good for a philosopher.
I have to say he scares me quite seriously
Big Bernie sanders fan all u need to know
Everything he says is wrong
🐟 22. ILLEGITIMATE GOVERNANCES:
SOCIALISM (and its more extreme form, communism) is intrinsically evil, because it is based on the ideology of social and economic egalitarianism, which is both a theoretical and a practical impossibility. Equality exists solely in abstract concepts such as mathematics and arguably in the sub-atomic realm. Many proponents of socialism argue that it is purely an economic system and therefore independent of any particular form of governance. However, it is inconceivable that socialism/communism could be implemented on a nationwide scale without any form of government intervention. If a relatively small number of persons wish to unite in order to form a commune or worker-cooperative, that is their prerogative, but it could never work in a country with a large population, because there will always exist entrepreneurs desirous of engaging in wealth-building enterprises. Even a musician who composes a hit tune wants his song to succeed and earn him inordinate wealth.
Socialism reduces individual citizens to utilities, who, in practice, are used to support the ruling elite, who are invariably despotic scoundrels, and very far from ideal leaders (i.e. compassionate and righteous monarchs). Those citizens who display talent in business or the arts are either oppressed, or their gifts are coercively utilized by the corrupt state. Despite purporting to be a fair and equitable system of wealth distribution, those in leadership positions seem to live a far more luxurious lifestyle than the mass of menial workers. Wealth is effectively stolen from the rich. Most destructively, virtuous and holy teachings (“dharma”, in Sanskrit) are repressed by the irreligious and ILLEGITIMATE “government”.
The argument that some form of government WELFARE programme is essential to aid those who are unable to financially-support themselves for reasons beyond their control, is fallacious. A righteous ruler (i.e. a saintly monarch) will ensure the welfare of each and every citizen by encouraging private welfare. There is no need for a king to extort money from his subjects in order to feed and clothe the impoverished. Of course, in the highly-unlikely event that civilians are unwilling to help a person in dire straits, the king would step-in to assist that person, as one would expect from a patriarch (father of his people). The head of any nation ought to be the penultimate patriarch, not a selfish buffoon.
DEMOCRACY is almost as evil, because, just as the rabble favoured the murderous Barabbas over the good King Jesus, the ignorant masses will overwhelmingly vote for the candidate which promises to fulfil their inane desires, rather than one which will enforce the law, and promote a wholesome and just society. Read Chapter 12 for the most authoritative and concise exegesis of law, morality, and ethics, currently available.
Even in the miraculous scenario where the vast majority of the population are holy and righteous citizens, it is still immoral for them to vote for a seemingly-righteous leader. This is because that leader will not be, by definition, a king. As clearly and logically explicated in the previous chapter of this Holy Scripture, MONARCHY is the only lawful form of governance. If an elected ruler is truly righteous, he will not be able to condone the fact that the citizens are paying him to perform a job (which is a working-class role), and that an inordinate amount of time, money and resources are being wasted on political campaigning. Furthermore, an actual ruler does not wimpishly pander to voters - he takes power by (divinely-mandated) force, as one would expect from the penultimate alpha-male in society (the ultimate alpha-male being a priest).
The thought of children voting for who will be their parents or teachers, would seem utterly RIDICULOUS to the average person, yet most believe that they are qualified to choose their own ruler - they are most assuredly not. Just as a typical child fails to understand that a piece of sweet, juicy, healthy, delicious fruit is more beneficial for them than a cone of pus-infested, fattening, diabetes-inducing ice-cream, so too can the uneducated proletariat not understand that they are unqualified to choose their own leader, even after it is logically explained to them (as it is in this chapter, as well as in the previous chapter). And by “uneducated”, it is simply meant that they are misguided in the realities of life and in righteous living (“dharma”, in Sanskrit), not in facts and figures or in technical training. Intelligence doesn't necessarily correlate to wisdom. No socialist or democratic government will educate its citizens sufficiently well that the citizens have the knowledge of how to usurp their rule.
To put it frankly, democracy is rule by the “lowest common denominator”.
It should be obvious that ANARCHY can never ever succeed, because even the smallest possible social unit (the nuclear family) requires a dominator. Any family will fall-apart without a strict male household head. In fact, without the husband/father, there is no family, by definition. The English noun “husband” comes from the Old Norse word “hûsbôndi”, meaning “master of the house”.
The same paradigm applies to the extended family, which depends on a strong patriarchal figure (customarily, the eldest or most senior male). Likewise with clans, tribes, villages, towns, cities, and nations or countries.
Unfortunately, there are many otherwise-intelligent persons who honestly believe that an ENTIRE country can smoothly run without a leader in place. Any sane person can easily understand that even a nuclear family is unable to function properly without a head of the house, what to speak of a populous nation. The reason for anarchists' distrust of any kind of government is due to the corrupt nature of democratic governments, and the adulteration of the monarchy in recent centuries. However, if anarchists were to understand that most all so-called “kings/queens” in recent centuries were not even close to being true monarchs, they may change their stance on that inane “system”.
Most of the problems in human society are directly or indirectly attributable to this relatively modern phenomenon (non-monarchies), since it is the government’s role and sacred DUTY to enforce the law (see Chapter 12), and non-monarchical governments are themselves unlawful.
One of the many sinister characteristics of democracy, socialism, and other evil forms of governance, is the desire for their so-called “leaders” to control, or at least influence, the private lives of every single citizen (hence the term “Nanny State”). For example, in the wicked, decadent nations in which this holy scripture was composed, The Philippine Islands and The Southland (or “Australia”, as it is known in the Latin tongue), the DEMONIC governments try, and largely succeed, in controlling the rights of parents to properly raise, discipline and punish their children according to their own morals, compulsory vaccination of infants, enforcing feminist ideology, limiting legitimate powers an employer has over his servants, subsidizing animal agriculture, persecuting religious leaders (even to imprisonment and death, believe it or not. Personally, I have been jailed thrice for executing God’s perfect and pure will), and even trying to negatively influence what people eat and wear.
Not that a government shouldn’t control what its citizens wear in public, but it should ensure that they are MODESTLY dressed, according to the guidelines outlined in Chapter 28, which is hardly the case in Australia, the Philippines, and similar nations. At least ninety-nine per cent of Filipinas, for instance, are transvestinal, despite Philippines pretending to be a religious nation.
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@@jamespires3383, search the Stanford University Encyclopedia of Philosophy or Wikipedia (both are online encyclopedia) for "LOGICAL FALLACIES".
Then, return to this comment thread and inform me which LOGICAL FALLACY you have just used, Slave.
Nonsense. The equality you fear is materialist, so actual social conditions to help others you would rather leave to die.
Hoppean Bot lol
Sorry, but no. Too performative.
wannabe socrates
every philosopher should be a wanabe Socrates
@@FilipKatavic-wu3km indeed
His philosophy is destined to a total failure and it may happen before his eyes within his lifetime. Individualism will triumph over collectivism.
Slavoj Žižek is joker 🤡
This guy is a goof