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Yeah this joke has got pretty repetitive at this point...

@@sykocode8530 So has the spitting.

😂😂

you probably shouldn't misquote the guy, this being your favorite Shakespeare quote,

Jason Unruhe, Dankey Kang, Jesse Grant and the Pink Triangle kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ab-Ug5d5ss-Rh3U.html

Mine is "Now… something, something, something"

I would love to see a live retelling of Shakespeare as recalled off-hand by by Zizek

@@Letmegetthatforyou hahaha

he's a PUBLIC intellectual. those are the breaks.

"unique contributions" sure buddy..

@@mobspeak the Peterson debate was enough for him to earn that.

People keep making comments on his nose touching because it's gross and funny. And it's never not going to be gross and funny. I love hearing this man speak and have listened to him for hours, but I still pick up on it and it's distracting. I'm willing to ignore it because of the quality of his words, but it's annoying. And don't try to pretend it's not annoying because then you're just lying to yourself.

@@mobspeak this video is a perfect example of his unique contributions

It's good but not as good as Tim Apple

LMFAO

Cocaine or tics?

I've heard of it but have never witnessed it.

sweet anita

No we've heard of them, I have them but it's still funny.

@@mrbrown1159 found someone who never heard of a neurological tic

I kinda like it in a way. It is a comedic relief to pretty hard topics and themes, but he will not think them to the end, which forces you to think further. He has written books and articles about all of it, where he elaborates all of his ideas, but a speach or presentation in this intellectual topic should be exactly like this.

bomber9912 well I disagree, he should elaborate them more so we can understand what he's saying without any reinforcements. Imagine if teachers didn't explain things well and then saying don't worry it's in the book.

"The problem"

@@bomber9912 i like to cook a good diner and right before eat it. I throw it all in the trash...

bro we just know that when there’s a video entitled a certain subject done by Zizek it’s gonna be 80% other points

It’s better to point out he’s just a gross person in general.

I made the funny joke about him wearing the Freddy Krueger shirt. Imagine if he had the glove too. OUCH!!!!

@@timolsen3494 stfu

*sniff*

The jokes may be unfunny but his behaviour is fucking hilarious.

people see what they can understand

Not just him, Eastern Europeans in general and I fucking hate it

His voice makes my eyes water uncontrollably. I don't know why, it's weird, and I don't like it. It got so bad it was like I was weeping, streams of tears running down my face. I had to stop listening, which is unfortunate because I would have liked to hear what he had to say.

He should make a tictoc 😉 Oh wait, he's already there :)

It takes time to filter that. As mamals we are wired to repel and reject signs of sickness, and his ticks, to our unconsciousness, which does not care about medicine books or psychology literature, his ticks indicate he's sick or has some problem. The further he is, the less chance we got to catch whatever he has. Unconsciousness, something Marx didn't seem to know about, our behavior is driven by our instincts, feelings and genes, with some luck we can put some reazon into some of our actions. Capítalism is nothing but an observation of how we work and tells you the optimus way to maximize profit and growth in the material world, but it doesn't say you have to exploit your employees. Actually, today it is well known that less hours of work and happier employees contribute more, which ultimately increase profit. A bad practice of capitalism is not of capitalism. Socialism, on the other hand, simply doesn't work, it's based on untrue facts such as human behavior

The problem with Zizek is he is fucked in the head. - Me.

@@mobspeak 3 edgy 5 you m9

@@bazkervillerouge750 His retarded followers speak worse gibberish than he does, it's not a surprise.

@@mobspeak Riveting.

@igor šajinović And the fact that you follow people like this tells me that you belong in a mental institution.

Schnüffeln

Underrated

snorted a booger at this 😂

Šniff

yo the man has nervous tics, don't be mean

xdddddddddddddddd

Westerners are a disgrace to yoga. They strip away it’s necessary Hinduism and make it secular There is no secular yoga. That’s just called doing uncomfortable poses Lol

@@deanmccrorie3461 Yoga is lame. Mobility training is more effective.

@@BrObstreperous lololol. I guess but effective at what?

@@deanmccrorie3461 wait so I cant practice this stuff thats been immeasurably helpful because I don’t practice hinduism? Tf?

It works perfectly for me

JAJAJAJAA

It do work. Except when it comes to questioning "pressure positions"

@@LiliS319 Lol

Hahahahahahaha omg this comment wins the comment section

It depends how you're identified and where you are living when you're being identified.

Destroying identities is a way to destroy society, i.e. push forward the creeping revolution through the superstructure

Making identity the main point of your doctrine is a poor move. Many are probably too narcissistic to admit it or incapable of grasping that identity is inherently anti-emancipatory

@@alicepractice9473 - making identity the main point of a doctrine is evil and effective. Identities are vehicles of group interest and if you break their creation process by interferring at an early age - like modern marxism does - you can then easily indoctrinate a malleable mass of pathologized young - as seen all around.

@Frederick Röders - who are those?

We simply get him to do what we are all being asked to do, wash hands, or sanitiser and good personal hygiene. I think that he does all that.

@spiro futue te ipsum. If you're not braindead, you should know what it means.

cover his hands in chili powder

Cocaine is a hell of a drug

@@philoz08 you murdered him

Who cares?

@@user-dz8pg5sw6s Not the likes of you, who can't grasp what he is talking about, obviously.

You're dealing with the majority of the population that's low IQ but has access to the internet

And you made it worse pointing it out so shut up

@@robergarcia11 He didn’t make it worse. It is insulting.

I disagree. I think that is to fail to understand how patriarchal and colonial structures actually reinforce capitalism. When you complain at work about long hours, and you are called a "sissy" or something like this, that is the power of patriarchal norms stifling dissent against capitalism. If people - and men especially - were to suddenly be able to express their feelings and needs openly, I believe we would have a socialist revolution before the end of the month. The masculine ban on communicating about your feelings means that workers cannot know what others are struggling with, meaning that they cannot see that they are all struggling in the same way, meaning that they can't reach class consciousness. Of course the progressive liberal appropriation that goes something like the quote you have given is horrible, but I don't think we should dismiss the movements on the left that are challenging these structures of power.

@@noor5x9 If your reasoning as to why a socialist revolution doesn't (and can't) happen is correct, then how do you explain previous socialist revolutions all over the world, dating back to the 18th century? In environments and societies where masculinity and patriarchy were far more pronounced, in fact not even challenged in the slightest? Not to mention that 'feelings' seem to be secondary concerns when you're struggling to meet your basic needs as a result of exploitation and inexcusably low wages.

@@allweknowisfalling7322 That's a fair point about earlier revolutions, and I'd love to learn how people were able to find connection with each other and build a movement in that patriarchal context. We did see feminism appear also in many other socialists revolutionary movements though. For example, abortion was decriminalised in the early soviet Union, along with homosexuality. That said, we have also seen a re-emergence of strong hierarchical orders after socialist revolutions. I suspect that it is precisely because we change the economic order without challenging the cultural pressupositions that both give rise to such an order and reinforce it

What about a company owned by the workers? Are the workers them working class or owner class?

There is no actual logical argument for legitimizing transgender.

is like a sidewalk stone he conveys... or a potato

​@@hayleyberry3437 The man writes so many books but KZfaq people don't read so this is all they get.

The speed of his mind exceeds the speed of his speech

​@@onisuryaman408that's exactly how ADHD feels

not his mother language

they do simply exist. they politicize them selves by interacting with this pathetic thing. its fun to participate for these people, they are literally boring people who have spent their entire lives either on the fringe of fitting in or just never being a part of anything whatsoever. this is their chance for attention. not one of them knows what its like to be cool or popular, and this is an avenue for that. literally. the same thing for 45 year old women who are just getting blue hair for the first time, or finding an identity on twitter surrounding some rage filled idea of teenager politics. its a hollow attempt at finding a surrogate personality using contemporary identity politics. its easy to scream and fight for things when you have an army of mainstream news outlets arguing for you. if these people found a skill that wasnt drawing furry cartoons or making childish art they would know what its like to have something to offer society and be rewarded for, and wouldnt feel so desperate to reach out and compromise their dignity for attention. its really not complicated, were seeing this pattern over and over literally millions of times. basically ugly and or boring people just looking for the limelight and pretending like the world is attacking them. its extremely cliche and probably the most cringe thing you can find in this decade

Bullshit. Most "LGB" Folks don't want their sexuality (Not their 'identities, their literal 'sexualities') not to be politicized anymore because those have been politicized, and the majority of things that where to be achieved had been achieved. Discrimination was made illegal, marriage was permitted, equal access to the workforce, and equal access to legislative rights including medical support. the 'TQ+' Fraction of that (which just "Bandwagoned" on the political platform having inherently zero to do with them), are the ones that basically poisoned the entire fucking progress with their retarded ideology and strictly reality-denying, anti-scientific, biology-antagonizing horseshit, by trying to 'normalize' lifestyles that would be largely impossible without severe, violent modification and altering of the human body through absolutely unnecessary, often times life-threatening surgeries and hormonal experimentation that does more harm then it does good. And the consistent presence and uncovering of fucking child molesters amongst their ranks and pedophiles trying to introduce highly pornographical/kink based material into school curriculums and trying to disguise it as 'Sex-Ed' is only the tip of that Iceberg. Or the Presence of "MAP" acceptance advocates in the 'TQ+' fraction. Homosexual, Bisexuality, Lesbianism can all be considered natural. Nature has enough of examples of it occuring, and we've had enough of historical precedents proving that people 'did' lead those lifestyles in one way or another. the 'TQ+' Nonsense is absolutely invented out of thin air on shoddy pseudo-science from liberal arts degrees, rooted in sociology and philosophy far more then any hard science out there.

Conflating queerness and pedophilia (regardless of era) is a dangerous game, and we see this narrative a lot from far-right christian conservatives (not to suggest that you fit this category). It's very important to acknowledge and address issues of pedophilia and child abuse abuse- both historic and current, but remember to exercise nuance and be aware of potentially damming and accusatory associations. @@markbranham7355

Agreed. The whole problem is that, instead of prescribing the simple extension of feminine and masculine rather than male and female, we implant sexuality as the root argument. There are both men and women who carry both feminine and masculine traits. THAT is the primary issue. Some carry those tendencies to include sexuality. Those that do are now mired in a conversation that has no purpose and is utterly missing the point. It is the Native American idea of "two spirits." We all carry both.

Finally, a lgbt person talking about this subject using facts and logic without sounding like an edgy teenage girl with autism. Respects for you.

based

worded very eloquently!

@@killdracula526 But still shit!

The problem isn't transgenderism, it's the total infiltration of transgenderism into the mainstream and the militant approach the movement has taken to get everyone to recognize a lifestyle choice that objectively only a small percentage of the population engages in

Would you be the trans brother or sister then?

Society is in reality.

@E A Youre rationalizing the hatred of independent judgment and the fear of social disapproval. Consciousness is derivative, merely the consciousness OF reality. Look out at reality, not inward. Focus your mind. Its mans basic method of survival.

We live in an economy. -The Marxer

@@Nina-cd2eh marxer..

We live in crazee taims

Lemwell7 My main point is this one. *sniffs philosophically*

The point is we should support trans people and defend them, but their struggle is not revolutionary in the Marxist meaning of revolution.

His point is pretty straightforward. We should fully support transgender people, but there's nothing revolutionary about it, which means that it doesn't threaten the existing global capitalism.

Hey man welcome to zizek!

The fluidity of ideas and stances is in the postmodern age of late capitalism at its peak, so it shouldn’t surprise you that even so solid natural things as gender or environment are not given anymore, according to Zizek’s reading of the Marx’s critique of capitalism. Clear?

Got to pull in people somehow.

It’s to get the clicks, because capitalism hahaha

the right wing hate machine can spin a dove into hitler if it means someone gets paid.

@@adammchugh5456 Right wing?

@@lomouche Not me, mate. And....?

holy shit, this deserves way more likes.

Well, gender is not a social construct... gender fashion is... I do agree with your idea that celebration instead of denialism should be the propper way to go about the subject...

Gender is grammatical, sex is biological and there are only two and they determine society.

@@bulkingup if you are saying that there are only two sexes, then what about intersex?

Gender debate is subjective boomerang to such an extent that debating over it puts layers to it nevermind demystifying any rational behind it. In the school of rationality where the argument corroborates scientific rigour, Gender is a fashion period.

I think the so called "left" is just a sibsitute for real, socialist leftists. They make up problems that don't exist and if a problem really does exist, it's even worse, because it cannot be addressed because terms like "racist", "homophobe", "transphobe", "imperialist" etc have been used so inflationary that noone takes real discrimination serious. And that's why Bezos, Gates, Cook etc fully support it, they want people to keep the masses confused so that we don't mind that they're controlling us. Divide et impera. Century old concept, works all the time. That's also why Gates and Buffet support social democracy, they absolutely like to pay a little bit more taxes if it means that the whole system can go on without uprisings. All they do is control us, and all this political correctnes cancel culture thing is just a cheap trick to establish a "new left" which is rather center-left because it ultimately supports the status quo, but claims that it doesn't. Just like what we call the "right" is in favor of traditional values and religion and focuses on national issues but at the end of the day they all support a globalized, unregulated market system in which the big banks and big businesses are free to treat the globe however they please. I mean, I'm bisexual myself and I do support the full emancipation of people with whatever sexuality, but I don't think it's in any way relevant for politics. The schools and restaurants and enterprises have to decide how many bath rooms they want, and you will never turn any intolerant person into a tolerant one by insulting them or forcing them, all we can do is do business as usual and show people that life goes on. The US needs to have a serious discussion about global warming, poverty, violence etc. You guys got a huge legal opioid problem and the US has the most imprisoned per capita in the world.

spiritual eco-syndicalist hero of the working class you bring up some interesting points but I don’t think I agree when you say identity has no place in politics. Like the civil rights movement and feminism were inarguably political, and also focused on identity. I agree completely that America desperately needs a real politically relevant socialist movement, and that corporations and the liberal state will try to, as Malcolm X said, give gestures to emancipation of marginalized groups to try to distract from real progress. But this doesn’t mean we shouldn’t also push for anti-discrimination laws and cultural acceptance. Basically we need economic leftism and social progressivism.

@@aberfork6031 Absolutely agree. My point was that one's sexuality (just like one's religion, nationality etc) is a very personal thing and that we must not have a debate about what counts as sexuality, what's normal and what's not, how we should treat them etc. That's completely irrelevant. What we must do is realize that all of this doesn't matter once we accept that people are different not because they're made that way but because they are that way. I don't need people telling me how proud I am for coming out, and I don't want people hating me for that. Vice versa, I don't think women who like to stay at home, do the housework, raise the children etc instead of working are outdated and old-fashioned. If that's what they like, then let them. I don't think it's progressive when women choose to go to work and have a career instead. It's just what they prefer to do. It's the other way around, in the past women have been raised to be housewives, that's not progressive. In that sense, an individual cannot be progressive. But the way the individual is treated, that's progressivism for me. And of course it all comes back to individual behavior, since society is nothing but a collective of individuals. For me, a single individual cannot be truly progressive, and that's non-political for me. We shouldn't walk up to someone and tell him how to behave.

@@spiritualeco-syndicalisthe207 Well spoken!

@@spiritualeco-syndicalisthe207 regardless socialism doesn’t work it doesn’t matter if you are against the modern left you’re still a socialist. It’s stupid.

You're right. We should abolish gender, but trans identities just enforce it. Nothing revolutionary there.

@@unCivilizedInfanta "Abolish gender" or abolish the structures in society which cause gender to matter more than it should (which is nil)? We can't just wish away gender. That in and of itself isn't revolutionary at all but rather idealism in its most basic form. Working towards class [and gender] equality will effectively dissolve all ideas of gender and its perceived roles and place in society -- rendering them meaningless beyond reproduction. As it should be. Edit: This will cause a paradigm shift, not back to the status quo, but rather towards a place where a man or woman can be comfortable as man or woman without any preconceived notions about what it means to be one. Thus, no need for a gender spectrum.

This obviously does not deal with transgenderism (man to woman and vice versa) because to me that is still binary. My comment deals with the debate around gender as a whole, and the massive gray area in the middle that seems to be the bulk of the pseudo-revolution.

@@ghoulswinnfield4692 humm, some people who transition, or partially transition, still may feel conflicted emotions about their gender, so they may feel that they belong somewhere in the middle, instead of falling in the binary. i respect that, i just let it be. but yeah, binary transgender people are somewhat easier to understand

@@beatrizkarwai6763 I guess my main point is that I agree that gender, and all of the ideas and debates surrounding it, as an overemphasized thing, should be done away with, but I vary in my conclusion on how. We can decide that gender doesn't exist in a metaphysical way and impose that idea on society, or we can actually create a world where its existence is irrelevant. The former being idealist and the latter obviously being materialist. I understand people have more immediate needs and mine is a long-game strategy. As far as societal impact, I just believe that the issue of gender as a concept is most often a matter of the inherent perceptions, prejudices and the discrimination and oppression that comes with it (man vs woman historically for example) and less about outward expression of the inner self. I don't personally care about how people express themselves, that's a part of the organic evolution of culture etc, I'm more concerned with the impact that expression has on the individual and society as a whole. This particulat debate creates a new contradiction in itself between trans women and cis women which is very much worth discussion.. and I'm not sure people are ready for it on either side. My wife being one of them. Btw, I have two teens, one of which is trans and the other leans nonbinary. And I'm still learning a lot about it; what I want to find is a principled Marxist analysis on the matter that enhances the strategy. Not at all easy

Same. This will probably get alot of backlash, but I believe not all transgenders are in fact transgender. In Thailand, alot of men have sex surgery so they can prostitute themselves as women, because there are no other jobs on the market. In Europe, there have already been cases of children who had sex change surgery and regret it, so now they are working on an underage sex change ban. We must admit that transgender identity is a real thing, but we also have to admit that people might use the tolerance towards transgender identity to escape their own reality and simply exploit their bodies for a better economic position or, like superheroes, they saw something on television and want to live out their fantasies.

Warms my heart to see level-headed people on my opposite end of the aisle.

obvious example being that large corporations and fortune 500 promoting the transgender narrative

Transgenderism is more active in highly capitalistic societies so he may be onto something.

@@rockpunk52 I see it this way: 1-bread and circuses, helps as a distraction having people fighting over it 2-helps rich and powerful wrap themselves in a shroud of fake virtue, fucking over real people with legitimate grievances

Have you ever seen your Dad and Zizek in the same room ?

@@aymericst-louis-gabriel8314 N-nope... Oh no! O.O

Shall I introduce you to Chris Chan?

He and Zizek are lovers, dummy

@@sergeibelozorov4428

Right there with you man... 🤷🏼‍♂️

My condolences 🌸 How do I put this in a nice way? Maybe it's just not for you

I understand you just gotta also understand Marx

YES!!

i mean those are some very noticeable and distracting ticks

when it (along with his horrifically slobbery vocals) makes it extremely difficult to discern what the man is even saying, I'd say the comments are warranted.

or touch it for that matter

The nose is no longer solid it’s liquid

Ikr

I have to add that people who focus on his ticks annoy me too. It‘s just part of his person and shouldn’t really distract you from what he says although he is hard to follow sometimes and jumps a lot in his thoughts but that‘s just his style of presentation.

you put it into great terms!! thank you!!

Well said! The difficulties that trans people face within capitalism, much like racism, can be understood as a product of the system, and as such, can shine more light on the severe shortcomings of the system. Black and LGBT movements sometimes walk hand in hand in Western countries because they are so marginalized, and I have seen groups of these movements that have become armed revolutionaries. Patriarchal relations are generally very beneficial to traditional capitalism, and to this day are responsible for a lot of oppression, so even in a neoliberal utopia I don't think these oppressions will vanish just because capitalism sees identity as a market of sorts. But idk, this is a confusing topic because theorizing endlessly tends to be more confusing than observing what really happens

“Liberation” is an Utopia. We may get less cohertion compared to past - that’s all. People can’t stand life in its total nihilistic meaningless way. Myths are always needed (being Revolutions, Liberations, Hollywood, etc)

You're on youtube, you really shouldnt be expecting a bunch of philosophy students in the comments

yea

Most of the comments about his tics seem to have been thumbs downed to the bottom and instead the top comments are just spammed with people handwringing about the bad comments. You could have instead drowned them out with interesting input or a summary for people having trouble following.

Continental philosophy books*

I am watched it right now for 10 minutes and 3 seconds straight.

hahahaha I'd fucking pay for that.

What do you think gave him the runny nose and post nasal drip? He's clearly done a fuck ton of drugs up the nose.

@@FreakTechnics u right my b

I do the same.

I figure it’s a philosophical style: Make yourself more difficult to understand in order to get the listener to work towards it

You can read his books. They are much better than his extemporaneous talks.

His gestures are definitely distracting. And funny. In a good way. Well funny is always good, right?

@@arcachata4137 I don't find his gestures to be distracting. Just the sound of his nose is louder than his speech.

It's fascinating how in universities in Europe there's many mamy graffities about end the cistem, kill cis scum... I can't imagine MOST of the people doing graffiti doing it about this. They gotta be paid

I'm thinking hand him the whole box.

pretty sure he wants whatever is causing him to sniff to stay where it is

LMAO DIDNT THINK ABOUT IT

Even more ironic considering the topic he’s discussing

Chris Chan.... Sam Hyde... Slavoj Zizek.. they all wear the polo

I am *schniff* looking for a *schniff* boyfriend-free girl, and so on and so forth.

@I'm not getting banned again Mixing dirty jokes with communism

@I can't swim Unlike us he’s at least trying to do something by talking about serious actual problems of society publicly.

Isn't psychoanalysis a pseudoscience?

@@JoseEchoes378yes

Historical phenomenon, along with the like of? Please name more historical phenomenons as examples

You Know? MY Gott!

That's a lot of big words. If I may, what Karl Brothers is trying to say is that identity is complex, and if we disregard some aspects of identity (like race and gender) in favour of other aspects of identity (like class), we inadvertently contribute to the oppression of disadvantaged race and gender groups. By saying that those aspects of their identity are not as important as their class, we downplay their lived experience and empower those that stand opposed to their interests, like the patriarchy or white white supremacy.

hogwash

@@harshilsangal6226 I understand gender playing a big part of your identity, but why race? Is your eye color as relevant to your identity as your class and gender? If all the elements of your identity are fluid and consequentially subjective. How can you take objective political stances in their regard? That road will only lead you to paradox. By placing people in boxes, groups and colors. You're conditioning those who listen to you to identify with those respective groups. Which in turn will enable the oppression of groups of identity. Identity politics is a death trap.

Big statement with no arguments, basically a mere prefabricated slogan. What is actually pretty fascist is convincing people that their identity primarily relies on their genre, their sexual tendencie, their race, (even class) etc etc... instead of on their persona. That way you have a massive amount of sheeps without sense of their actual persona and at the service of your ideology (a very common strategy in fascism and communism). But of course, for you and for your ideology it is very convenient that people tag themselves primarily in groups, rather than in their own persona, so that having them perfectly controlled, and to actually perpetuate those groups and that class-struggle (despite apparently fighting that struggle) so that eternally justifying the necessity of your ideology. In other words: your ideology, and the slogan you stated, are a tool of power (nothing to do with social justice).

That’s a mouth full of obscurantism, bruh. The so-called “live experience “ rubbish your spewing is entirely inner subjective whereas class is something objective . It is not an identity ; it is your position within economic relations; it is based on who owns what within a system of production .

Why? Don't you like fun?

@@MrAlRats fun didn't hurt anyone, but I have seen some comments that are mean spirited or dismissive of what he says simply because of his ticks. That is what pains me. But nothing that a line of coke with the man cannot fix.

@Good Goy hahahahaha "now that we have discussed all this Hegelian stuff why don't we go powder our noses".

😂😂

Damn I almost feel bad for laughing

When its funny, its funny. Stop being a bitch.

not based and blue pilled

@@TaarLpsSorry your presidential candidate didn't make it for their second term

Sorry yours likes little girls.

This is why your country is fucked, cause you think automatically two sided politics. Hey good luck for the next 4 years

read his books, they are big and dense :o

I have exactly the same observation. He never does, because he's just an ADHD Marxist standup performer. He obviously does rarely have such longer trains of thought - maybe it's drugs or just lack of mental capabilities. He only deals in episodic observations and jokes.

Zizek never says anything. It’s not a timescale issue.

Leonard Peikoff, in _DIM Hypothesis_, says modern culture is conceptually disintegrated as a result of Kantian nihilism.

@@TeaParty1776 - it's the effect of Marxist anti-cultural critical theory implemented in academia and top-down since decades

*coughed

@@wildzwaan caught

@@ghostfjdgcsusvsgsj It was a pun...

@@ghostfjdgcsusvsgsj You didn't catch it.

Chris Chan

this is his fav shirt

Yes

japanese english is quite different from his english.

In two years or so

Hahahaha

Lmfaos!

😂😂😂😂

Hahahahha

I've heard my father say the exact same thing about Donald Trump

​@@westondeloney8306 You got a chuckle, but really, no. You know Donald Trump takes himself -- particularly his appearance and identity -- very seriously. He is proud of his hair, fingers, speech-patterns, etc. and usually offended at critical comments about them rather than self-deprecating or even apologetic like Zizek.

​@@crimsonmask3819 Agreed, Trump seems the exact opposite. Deeply, deeply insecure.

@@westondeloney8306 Haha don't let trump hear about what your dad said, he would implode

LMAo

You should be able to find it by searching for Dundee University Lecture Series

You have not understood a word of what Zizek said. Or better said, you don't want to, simply because it compromises your ideological assumptions. In no moment he is opposed to homosexuality.

@@screambeyond I am giving an example of misinterpretations of Marxism and materialism.

@@screambeyond You didn't really read the comment - the lady went away disappointed because she realized that her politics and morals were at odds with each other, and to resolve the contradiction she'd have to modify one or the other.

Why not get DNA from intelligent people like Von Neumann and Noether and use a surragate mother?

​@@aoeu256you're assuming they'd be smart, and you're assuming they'd support a certain ideologies because of that. None of that is necessarily true.

What makes you think he's an actual communist? (I mean he's left obviously)

what does that even mean??

Zizek is Hegelian, He picks all the good aspects of all ideologies but also criticizes the bad of those ideologies.

1. Zizek is no communist (he even says it repeatingly). He's more of a hegelian- lacanian (french psychoanalyst). 2. Everybody can learn from his work

@@Wisstihrwas Marx was also supposedly hegelian, yet he wasn't. Zizek is a wasted talent because he is either focusing on wrong things or the good things with the extremly bad perception. Here and there he knows to be correct, but most of the times im surprised that there is so much people agreeing with him.

*laughs in windowlicker*

marxista reads likes maxanista lol

😂😂

i can barely hear what hes saying with all the sniffing and his accent

Stupid logic from stupid liberals thinking they are marxists

@@studio1988. If you think that you are so intellectually superior to someone, then it's better to prove that through argumentation rather than playground insults. The latter only proves the opposite.

Nah. Transgenderism is literally an expression of liquid modernity.

Capitalism certainly coopted the gay rights movement...Gay rights, now brought to you by Bud Light!

@@haniel3066 imagine being so ignorant you think transgender people didn't exist before modernity.

Well you could honestly break it down as an aspect of the idea of safety. Capitalism protects fairly well against hunger and violence. Provide well for the hierarchy of need if you will. These factors allows for people to experiment with identity and allows for a market to be built around these identity experiments in order to find the self. Thus sustaining the “fluidness” of the actual identity. That is not to say it is a bad thing or in anyway justifiable to simply write it off as if it’s just a late stage capitalism side effect. However the structure of capitalism is one of the only economic factors that allow for it to the degree that is present today. The problem with capitalism is not the idea of moving product but in the consumers choose of product especially when there is no genuine choice. Which is why most libertarians argue for small government intervention( little regulation) as it allows for more choices to pop up in the market. However that also creates a balancing act for the governments responsibility to smash monopolies and oligopolies on the market.

@@haniel3066 Afraid il Desu is right. Other cultures had third genders. Just not our culture.

Yeah i have no fucking idea. I have a philosophy degree, I think I'm ok at making it through dense texts, but either I have ADHD or Zizek is all build-up no climax. He's establishing a bunch of preliminary ideas but I lose where they lead to. I think right at the end he brings it round to questioning the basis of externally imposed identities... but not sure what his argument is.

yes

I find it uncomfortable when people slap bass.

Yeah, because they watch a lot of mainstream media and netflix

exactly! but capitalism has done that with everything, that’s what it’s designed to do. Coopting is in the capitalist nature, it excels in this. Syndicalism, ecology, feminism, gender theory, decolonization, black liberation, even communism itself - all taken, capitalized, commodified and commercialized. That doesn’t automatically remove the revolutionary potential in all of these.

I find Marx knew very little about human behavior, only his judgement of it, he saw racism but never understood why it exists. At that time humans were perceived as something totally different from animals, out of the animal kingdome, as if we were rational beings with feelings. Today it is proven and concluded that we are driven by feelings and instinct and some times some are smart enough to look back and think about, reazonable, what we did and with some luck, undertand the actual reasons. No wonder he proposed the "new man" as if our mind was only shaped by culture and learning and there wasn't a subconsciousness evolved thousand of years to keep us alive and reproduce, injecting chemicals into our body to make us walk away from things it perceives dangerous or harmful and make us prone to repeat things it perceives as good with endorphines and dopamine

So? We all have struggles, what should I do? Cry my eyes out because you function differently? Guess what, so do I, nothing special about that. Those individual push things onto you and you push things onto them - you don't want them, they don't want yours, yet you both keep on doing it.

@@princeargon6508 I uh, don't think you understood the point, I was saying it's not revolutionary it's just how I am. Not lookin for pity or whatever you may have thought? And your second paragraph makes no sense whatsoever lol

Oh that's too late. It's his USP. What would Zizek be without his ticks. Just another boring looking philosopher. :) Though sometimes it's hard to focus...

morons think the people backed by every corporation and political establishment are the resistance L M A O

@@Annnto how the hell can you miss the point so hard...?

because the types of people who want to try and understand him cant.... then they go back to joe rogan clips....

I can't tell if the owner is a reactionary socialist or a progressive luring reactionaries into watching Zizek.