As soon as Slavoj Zizek starts talking, I smile. God, I love the way this man talks.

I am smiling. Slavoj, thank you and so on and so on...

the editing of this video is more than non sens. it is an attempt to "ideologize " what is a critique of ideology. the editor must be sent immediatly to goulag

Whoever thought of these captions should reconsider their life and career choices.

This is one of the reasons that makes "the Dispossessed" of Ursula K. Le Guin, one of the best novels ever. The protagonist questions the freedom itself in an anarchic society, where everyone seems to be totally free.

"The most important form of non-freedom is the non-freedom which is not even perceived as such."

What is freedom today? Slavoj Žižek | Comment Is Free ► kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i9aAqLeStZycdKs.html Are we free to live our lives as we want? We might think so, but philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that this apparent freedom is actually governed by a complex series of conditions. For Žižek, a 'pathetic, old romantic', the highest form of freedom is in fact love. Subscribe to The Guardian ► bit.ly/subscribegdn #slavoj #slavojzizek #philosophy #love #freedom

It's Wednesday, so we have another Comment is Free video coming at 16:00. In case you missed it, here's Slavoj Žižek asking: "What is Freedom Today?" ► is.gd/zizekcif Subscribe to The Guardian ► bit.ly/subscribegdn #freedom #love #philosophy

Real freedom is renouncing to that “false” freedom, self control is freedom, doing without limits is slavery, freedom is taking that harder but higher path that lifts you up.

Great idea for a video and a conversation starter! "What is freedom" seems to be an open ended question and depends upon personal beliefs. Thank you for making this video and promoting such an important question.

The best thing about this guy is that I can't imagine that there is a topic that he hasn't at least put one thought into it.

This man must be appreciated beyond anything.

Is there some reason you can't just show the interview? The cutting in and out of view for less than a second for a single word or picture is distracting.

Did you let a 9 year old kid sneak in editing room ? 😂

I love his shirt.

What is freedom to you?

Slavoj Zizek's inability to stick to one point, and discuss only that one point, never seizes to amaze me.

Slavoj is interesting and so on... But the editing tho.

"What is ffschfschzlhreedom today?"

Wow, this guy blew my mind. He makes so much sense!

my left ear found this very interesting

Editor of this video has too much freedom.

This is brilliant :) One of the most complex and universal comments I've heard for a looong time :)

Native English speakers you don't know how lucky you are with your language! I admire Mr. Zizek, my English is very similar to his, but I am too much afraid to embarrasse myself to speak it freely. 😔

The edit distracted me a bit. The thoughts were interesting enough imo! Just let the man talk and film that, either way thanks for sharing!

Thought Vicky Leeks was a real person for a sec

I had an epileptic attack after I saw this, and so on

sounds like he's speaking and licking peanut butter at the same time

there is the ability of questioning then there is the quantity of things to question then there is the pure intensity and sincerity with wich we question, i think wisdom requires bravery not just brains. The human soul is more emotional than rational.

Slavoj Zizek - What is freedom today? Video posted 8 years ago.

Who knew the voice actor for Sylvester was so based!

Slavoj Žižek: What is freedom today? Now with captions.

Im so glad he said the banana peel story, I was hoping for it and wow, there it is. It never gets old for me. Love you Zizek

Nice T-shirt Slavoj

I actually liked the captions

slavog zizeck is like stockhausen with a piano

The only true freedom that can be experienced by an individual is one which does not limit the freedom of another individual. So any definition of freedom, if it is sustainable, must include the idea of balance or harmony.

Slavoj has a lot to talk about which is one of the reasons I look up to him. He will not run out of words to the point of overwhelming the listener/interviewer/whatever. The bombardment of Slavoj's great verbal, focused strikes of information is astonishing. Also I respect him for being a very fluent speaker. He has a great vocabulary even though he is Slovenian. Okay, so the question here is "what is freedom (to you)?" My answer shall follow. Freedom as a word brings to my mind surpassing the limitations of what we are as a human species. That means, and includes what Slavoj was talking about, reproduction. I'm talking about freedom from a human perspective. Our way of living will become more optimal and better as time goes by. So freedom also means patience. Patience and hope. Hope, that tomorrow will be better for our children, our grandchildren our grandgrandgrand...children. I believe people's social and moral skills, in general, will develop step by step slowly as time goes forward. And as these skills get higher, people will be "more free". People will learn. People can surpass the limitations set to us. And by limitations I go as far as physical and mental states in which humans live in. Our body is not really free. We have aches, pain and sorrow which could be fixed in a far far future. Human emotions of course are important but think about depression and panic attacks. I'm sure people would be better off without them. I'm talking very precisely and concretely here, but I think that's exactly the way to go with this idea of mine. Think about the movie 'Transcendence' (Johnny Depp's new movie). I think that's a great way of thinking about freedom, even though the movie itself may or may not be as accurate as to what I'm talking about here. Love, which Slavoj presents here as the ultimate kind of righteous freedom, is just a part of the freedom I'm talking about here. Love is important.

what is freedom...it's nothing but relative, who is to decide what is false or true freedom for me...unless he is either the architect of me or freedom or both.

It's not a fall, it's a landing.

A video narrated by Zizek cannot be longer than 5min

This is pretty heavy.

disparate ideas are just put together under the term "love". I don't like the way he goes through each topic, because he often vaults from this to that without any stepping stone. 1. free from terror, hunger, and etc. : basic existential rights legitimate working government bodies are needed : no anarchy 2. free from unknown influence from powerful elites or unintended glitches from long lasting system : basic economic rights ex) wikileaks 3. free to embrace risk for or to bear the burden of committing to someone who you choose ex) romantic relationship

Love without fall? I'm not sure what he means

My English teacher would say "You can use any colour of ink you like, as long as it's Black" Our choices in the system are nothing more than predetermined options, anything else is Thought Crime. My natural tendency is to tell people FO a lot, as I make my own rules..

I hope that watching Zizek or others,new philosophers will born and by taking serious their work we will be all abble to live in a better world

Forgive me if I use the term loosely or tendentiously but, in my opinion, freedom would be reporting on the revolution in Mexico, the feminist protest in Barcelona, the now quite painstakingly flagrant anomalies that abound the 'official' stories of recent historical events. Freedom is having the journalistic integrity to go against the status quo, overcome cynically stigmatised language that an undergraduate with a passing interest in logic could, and genuinely try to seek the 'truth' of things as best you can. Though I do often read your paper I'd like to let you know that, broadly speaking, I consider you an 'enemy'; an enemy who, as I'm sure most of your staff know (and I assume Zizek must do too, hence the T-shirt) forgoes documenting the now undeniably terrifying iceberg beneath the water, and instead syphons carefully contained dissidence (or anti-dissidence) that momentarily satisfies our relatively weak drive for subversion. Anyway some of you do seem alright but until you have the guts to actually tell us what this bunch are quite nonchalantly doing (and have been for a pretty long time) it's difficult for me to respect you.

The video was cool and so on, but why are there so many distracting graphics and texts? Slavoj is enough

"Question everything" Why? :)

I like Slavoj, but I find this discussion very incoherent, firstly he talks about the state regulating certain bodies and implying Berlin's idea of negative freedom, i.e. I don't need to worry about traffic accidents as the freedom to drive like a maniac has been sacrificed by having lights. Then he discusses the trade services agreement and talks about how some our choices are illusory in regards to who is controlling goods and services, yet in a communist planned economy we would still have to rely on some central authority to give us what we hope are goods and services we desire. I don't think this solves any notion of freedom. He highlights this idea further by stating that love involves certain sacrifice as should freedom, yet it is unpredictable, which is a problematic comparison as choices can be presented (by an authority, state capitalism and state communism) so as to lull us into a sense of making a free choice in an uncertain world. Finally he concludes with a questioning the basis of everything including freedom is critical to freedom, I agree with this point, however this is a positive freedom statement - freedom to .... like the unbridled freedom of the most powerful, the freedom to question everything can lead to getting lost in a sea of endless recursive thought, the ability to disengage and take certain aspects of the world as given, is the sacrifice we make when questioning anything...

i love this man.

I'm not sure if Zizek realizes what a major (and concerning) contradiction he stated. On the one hand he talks about freedom and what he perceives it to be, BUT then (in the very beginning) he says he "would like the state (government) taking care of things only without my choice, but even without me knowing about it." Hmmm. I wonder if he realizes how dangerous that it by entrusting those in government with the decision making power to rule over one's life and decide "which freedoms you can and cannot have." He makes further contradiction by raising an issue with (let's call them) international financial institutions making exchanges and transactions "behind closed doors" without our ever knowing about them, yet he has no problem with giving that same freedom and power to the state (government).

Did they make a quota for the video editor to impose a graphic every 10 seconds? It looks so forced

Love can be a prison, man.

Zizek scores with this one.

Every time he touches his nose, they add those graphics to hide it

The unique comunist to go to the guardian

I believe that freedom has many domains. How free is someone based on his gender, culture, religion,... (I explained it in one of my vids). Soo its not easy to define freedom.

he's truly a comedian as well

Slavoj Zizek is a great philosopher You.................know. and so on and so on

Freedom is meaningless if it is not based on the truth. The highest form of truth is in Art.

The highest form of freedom is love here I am a pathetic old romantic Slavoj Zizek, 2014

Two ideas for Slavoj. 1.) Speech Therapy , 2.) Accent Reduction C'mon, it's going to make your message land better and it would only take you a couple of months of effort to rid yourself of this impediments...

Bartleby the Scrivner shirt!!

He's told this story in four different videos

"Gan Grapes"

I like the T shirt print's reference to Herman Melville's Bartleby. I prefer not to. 😂

By the way that "switch"is due to MKultra programming--accustomed to Cymatics frequency, they can literally control your motor functions by zapping you and make you trip while walking.

i dont understand "fall" in this

you are free, to do as we tell you.

I prefer freedom that is only restricted by the NAP.

I have been working with you

Editing worths the applause 👏🏻

"All you need is love" because love is all and love is freedom. and you can't control and buy love.:))

At the start I thought to myself that this is a joke , till I actually started listening to what he had to say. Interesting (Y)

Lost ie. i lost every loss by admitting that although that was not my best idea, i did it.

I would prefer not to.

I've always found the laws of the bible to be ideals and warnings. "You shall die if you do not rest every now and then and work your entire life." "In an ideal world there is no death. One day YOU SHALL NOT KILL." "Homosexuality has a shocking amount of negative effects. Don't get involved in it." "If all neighbors dare for eachother, that solves basically every life problem. Try it sometime." I have a hard time understanding why the church gets so much hate. We say what is right. We say what humanity clearly cannot comprehend on its own. And we do these things in spite of all consequences. To prosecute us only proves that humanity is against the very teachings of a man who was either a mad man or the son of god

2:20, the exact moment when he loses it, he may be my countryman, and i do like him, he's quite a character, but I cannot fathom why anyone takes him seriously on this topic, when it comes to the principles of freedom it's clear he drops the ball every time he speaks on the subject. He starts out rationally, but every time he approaches the root principles he rebounds into fallacies and starts spouting nonsense, trying to somehow rationalize his learned beliefs instead of working it through.

Thanks for sharing this I'm hoping people stop following an start waking up

Head-Explosion

*Anarchy* is complete freedom. Don't bother debating whether or not anarchy will help humanity, the question is 'What is freedom" not "What will help humanity"....keep in mind that freedom doesn't necessarily = prosperity (maybe it does, but there is only one way to find out). Maybe anarchy is good, maybe its bad, maybe it doesn't fall into either category.

free

Freedom under the rule of Capital is Bentham.

pre determined choice.. this is a Spinozist thought

Freedom to love yes. Buuuut the problem is, your love interest has the freedom of choice.

the video editing is just noise

Damn, I felt a switch in my head, and I almost fell. 😀 The other side of Freedom is "OSHO - Marriage and Children."

Interesting talk, but all these animated slides made it seem like a high-school lesson. Plz!

"the highest form of freedom is love" ambiguous, love has so many forms ethical and non-ethical so what kind of love exactly?

What about compatibilism?. Free choices don´t have to be predetermined. Basic philosophical knowledge.

LOVE WITHOUT THE FALL

Did he say "freelance killings"?! Lmao

But... Bartleby would prefer not to...

The man is insane

Lets pintpoint every word or sentences that we think is mostly important here. Like and epileptic boy with seizure. Whoever made this captions, please, reconsider that your graphical design degree was a scam from the University.

WHAT ISH FREEDOM TODAY?

So j peterson thinks the same "its not posible realization witout a compromise " not posible freedom without fall in love and surrender to the other Taking responsabilility is the only freedom the other choise is the one of peter pan the eternal adolecescence. In wich is omly posible the developement of consumerism in the way the sistem conduces us the forever need of some thing that can not be satisfied .. When you surrender to love and so to responsability your anxiety declines and your true self express in gratitude not in greif for what you dont have because you have chose your path your freedom then is complete ... Interesting proposition so theres no diference between totalitarian and democratic regimes in by themselfs as a perception of happynes or a proyection of self developement . As always the answers are inside us not in the conditioning of the enviroment . Nevertheless in the other hand we can only teorizate about theese matters from a occidental and democratic capitalist presumption.. Eurocentrist as zizek says.

freedom and living inside gods moral laws you don't want everything done for you,especially when it's not what YOU want

First few seconds: *Freedom is about the state doing stuff without my choice and even behind my back*. It takes some mental gymnastics to be able to say that with a straight face...