You need to retune your compass because, my friend, you are completely out of touch with reality. Your argument boils down to “well he’s not a serial killer rapist pedophile” which is not even remotely an acceptable argument to be making. Please rethink your path.
Zizek has criticisms, but I am not “cancelling” his great past works. Learning to absorb the good and throwing away the bad is true knowledge enlightenment. Throwing out baby with bathwater has never resulted in a net benefit. And I believe in getting more knowledge, as a digital data archivist/curator.
There is nothing that does a better job on ideology (2012) and cinema (2006) than Zizek’s works. His expertise on psychoanalysis, ideology critique, media literacy and political academia is a rare deadly combination.
Have a more open mind. Do not just put a political gas mask on your brain. It is unhealthy. But then, I do not care about appeasing leftist circles, and despise liberals and rightists, so I am pretty alone on the path I walk. So you can choose to play safe, I take risks for knowledge.
I am going to continue my hardline stance against people who wield fascism because every time I laxed up on that stance, it fucked me over. Yes that means we’re going to be put at odds, that’s just the way things are. I shot my shot but you’re all in, so whatever. I’m moving on.
I am a very determined idiot. It takes a bit of crazy to use low or no filters while absorbing knowledge, while not going crazy or burning your brain out or become a bad person. Not sure there is a playbook to train yourself to be like this, other than exposing yourself to too much knowledge, so I consider it a natural gift. Humans are risk averse anyway… maybe I am not human lol. On very rare occasions I feel the brain burnout but it is an acceptable cost.
You need to retune your compass because, my friend, you are completely out of touch with reality. Your argument boils down to “well he’s not a serial killer rapist pedophile” which is not even remotely an acceptable argument to be making. Please rethink your path.
Zizek has criticisms, but I am not “cancelling” his great past works. Learning to absorb the good and throwing away the bad is true knowledge enlightenment. Throwing out baby with bathwater has never resulted in a net benefit. And I believe in getting more knowledge, as a digital data archivist/curator.
There is nothing that does a better job on ideology (2012) and cinema (2006) than Zizek’s works. His expertise on psychoanalysis, ideology critique, media literacy and political academia is a rare deadly combination.
Have a more open mind. Do not just put a political gas mask on your brain. It is unhealthy. But then, I do not care about appeasing leftist circles, and despise liberals and rightists, so I am pretty alone on the path I walk. So you can choose to play safe, I take risks for knowledge.
I am going to continue my hardline stance against people who wield fascism because every time I laxed up on that stance, it fucked me over. Yes that means we’re going to be put at odds, that’s just the way things are. I shot my shot but you’re all in, so whatever. I’m moving on.
I usually refer Žižek appreciators to Gabriel Rockhill: Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek
I’ll save this message for the next time I need it, thanks a ton.
I am a very determined idiot. It takes a bit of crazy to use low or no filters while absorbing knowledge, while not going crazy or burning your brain out or become a bad person. Not sure there is a playbook to train yourself to be like this, other than exposing yourself to too much knowledge, so I consider it a natural gift. Humans are risk averse anyway… maybe I am not human lol. On very rare occasions I feel the brain burnout but it is an acceptable cost.