wisdom 🤢

Ironic bc he’s talked about how wisdom is conformity

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Id not put Zizek above Chomsky but sure

Chomsky is a stiff ideologue

​​​​​​​​​ You've got to be kidding. With all my respect to Chomsky, he is not even close to Zizek. The latter is a true madman who has published close to a hundred books on everything you can imagine. His knowledge of German Idealism alone already makes him more interesting than Chomsky could ever hope to be. Slavoj is a MADMAN. Believe me. I've been studying him since 2012. Most of Chomsky's books are quite boring (mostly about politics and linguistics). He's not even remotely close. I'd exchange Chomsky's entire oeuvre for Zizek's Less Than Nothing alone (or maybe even his Absolute Recoil). And I'm not even kidding. Literally. I still respect Chomsky though (it's just that Zizek is a lot more interesting as an intellectual). Even his personality is much more amusing than Chomsky's.

@@IvoMaropo You've been studying him how exactly?

​@@jodawgsup By reading his books. Zizek is a very complicated guy. Any authentic dialectician is like that. He uses Lacan to read German Idealism. But not simply Lacan "the way he was", but a version of him that would be strange to Lacan himself (whereas Lacan was increasingly anti-hegelian, Zizek reads him as a hegelian par excellence). Not to mention Zizek's materialist reversal of Hegel (yes, for him, Hegel was more materialist than Marx himself). And I agree. Whenever I read Hegel's Logic, all I can think of is how insanely materialistic his thought looks. But, back to Zizek, the only person I know of to have successfully articulated his ontology is Adrian Johnston.

Exactly. True Philosophers are never afraid of not looking politically correct. Some things simply have to be uttered.

​@@IvoMaropo What are you even talking about?

Is that a poor attempt at a subtle jibe or just a straightforward statement of opinion?

The Rapture (1991) with Mimi Rogers (and David Duchovny!)

also, it seems to be a beta 58A, it isn't a good mic if you are not in front

It's Zizek.If the mic annoyed you then it's a good thing.

Has Christianity changed significantly in the last 20 years?

Perhaps not, but by that logic he has no business writing a fourth book on the topic that recycles the same tired Hegel and Chesterton lines.

@@mcosu1 what logic? I didn’t say Zizek has no business reiterating the same ideas over and over again. He’s free to write whatever he wants, and you’re free to consume it or not. And he would be the first to tell you that he has been saying the same thing in every book since _The Sublime Object of Ideology._

@CrazyLinguiniLegs I really like Zizeks work on Christianity and I was hoping he would put some new ideas out with this book. From the interview, it sounds like more of the same.

@@mcosu1 yeah, I can sympathize with that. Even if he doesn’t bring any new ideas about it, it’d be interesting to hear him develop the old ones more in depth rather than repeating the same hot takes over and over.

And her twin sister sitting in the first row...? Yess, one can easily feel resurrected again throwing brilliant ideas to the audience with ease and pleasure!

@@pavlestajdohar4377 Agreed!

No.

@@IvoMaropo pure ideology, mein gott.

😂😂😂 DEAL make it so !

I think that's the point. A satanic atheist is still an atheist in negation of the Christian God. I don't think I agree though.

​@@ElectricityTasterLOL. "But seriously", the truth of satanism is not that it's too radical, but that it's not radical enough. Yeah, Zizek's clichés are never too much. Lol. What I like about satanism is that what it fights against is already in the very core of Christianity. Take Black Metal, for instance. The problem is not Christ per se, but the fake institutional mistification of his scandalous core. Nietzsche was right: there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross. Christ still remains too traumatic a figure for Christians themselves.

I think Zizek's sniffs would throw the training data off.

The second part is implied by you, which means maybe he is succeeding, no?

When he gives talks it's always with all these detours which can make it had to follow. He never seems to "get to the point" of what he wanted to say. His written work also has a lot of different ideas, but it's a lot more "scrutable".

He is 75. You'll get there eventually...

What's the original message? I don't think we've discovered it to be honest

@@bensonchannel8676 what if the message is nothing deeper than whatever sources were available to educated 1st century Jews-mostly Paul and the writers of the gospels-plus the rest of the traditions that developed over the next three centuries and then the next 17? What if the “original” message is Neoplatonism plus Judaism + give or take a few more influences (Stocicism, for instance, and a reaction against atheistic Epicureanism?) What I find funny - honestly - is the need of intellectuals to keep rescuing Christianity as if it was special beyond its impressive capacity to keep the European world institutionally controlled for 17 centuries. As if they knew no history prior to Christianity. Honestly, why, in your opinion is Christianity so alluring that some want it even without its presumed central advantage: a god who assures it’ll all be good in the end? Why keep Christianity if it can’t even offer that? Why not just be committed humanistic naturalists without materialism-reductionism? We’ve got plenty of historical sources - including Christianity - and science. Why keep beating a historically dead horse?

What is Zizek teaching about Christ?

@@Jomchen if you’re a Christian, you’ll know the things that he says are false. If you’re not a Christian, just do some googling about the doctrine of Christ’s second coming and what the Gospel is about. It’s not what Zizek is describing.

Republicans are not in any shape or form a majority in US. They are still in power thanks to gerrymandering, Indirect elections of president and unequal power of voters (every state have 2 senators, no matter how many people live there.

Yeah if you read his book about it you will understand

A few points ahead of Peterson? Maybe if you're talking about ability to entertain an audience, but in terms of philosophy and an understanding of religion Peterson doesn't even come close. Peterson's rambling about the "biblical corpus" is a shallow attempt to branch out to and use religion to justify conservative dogma. There is no comparison.

Yeah, it sucks that Zizek hasn't seem to grow much. Since he loves film, I would compare him to Tarantino. I still love their work, but also understand that there is a certain limitation to what they do.

Those Zoomers should lay off the ganja and this guy, and instead go watch *Zoomer Historian's* content.

Holy shit, you read my mind. I fuckin' love that guy. @@LennyCash777

What makes you say that

​​@@LennyCash777I agree! When I need my fix for Holocaust denial fascist apologia Zoomer Historian does it best!

@@DylanRoth1860 Yeah a unqualified guy, who didnt study with a Nazi Obsession. Thats what the youth needs lol....

Zionism and genocide apologists are the prime drivers of anti semitism today. Stop slaughtering children and maybe you will be seen differently.

It is reference to one of his documentaries, but he very well might have a Coke sponsorship.

Possibly sponsored by coke, but highlighting the sordid history of the company as soon as he possibly could.

It's just a stupid kind of inside joke. There is no way coca cola thinks Zizek is a great way to move product. He's famous for a philosopher but only for a philosopher.

expand on this please