"Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire." Friedrich Nietzsche
@@Yet.Another.Rapper.KiG.V2 They are just concepts. And anything I will say after this fact, will just be added or subtracted from the pool of concepts we draw from. Rather, whatever truth and happiness are, refer to something deeper, something unutterable. (Life) -- if that is an appropriate usage of the term here, is a movement towards that thing which is unutterable. And, in this movement we give things names, but they do not define us, nor construct our overall experiences. They are just tools of navigation, from which we draw upon, but they are not the totality of things as such.
Once again people missing the point of Zizek hegelian method of presentation, and conclusion. He is not advocating the soviet failure while saying it was a happy time, he is putting in check the notion of happiness, by comparing it with a failure. The biggest product in capitalism is happiness. Not in the notion that you can buy happiness directly from the product, that would be a pagan way of thinking, but by the notion that while buying it you achieves happiness on itself, the new pentecostal way to see it. Zizek is, of course, touching on ideology and how our happiness is based not in the pursue of it, but by the illusion of having it. That way Zizek also touches in the notion of Utopia. The only way to live "happy" at the utopia, is to never build it. Yes, Zizek can sound confusing at times, but he is very consistent, talking in hegelian terms about politics, while using Lacan for his reasoning and conclusion.
Here I claim, that it is PRECISELY this UA-cam algorithm, that is supposed to be so radicalizing and mind-numbing and so on and so on, that brings me to worthwhile new content and that, therefore, brings me happiness. * sniff *
Here I claim, that it is PRECISELY this UA-cam algorithm, that is supposed to be so radicalizing and mind-numbing and so on and so on, that brings me to worthwhile new content to study and that, therefore, is an excuse for me to procrastinate studying for what I'm actually supposed to study.
Zizek is one of the those guys that I can describe as clickbait in human form. He leads you in with controversial statements and in just a few minutes he makes you feel stupid for ever thinking they were controversial.
When I still see Chomsky being lauded as The World's Greatest Dissident, I think of Slovaj. Not to underestimate the greatness of Manufacturing Consent, but Slovaj is 100 times more in touch with real people and builds his immense theoretical scholarship on what we actually live. He makes Chomsky look like an amateur.
These two are not comparable at all, since only one of them is some kind of dissident at all. Chomsky actually does something to fight the existing capitalist-imperialist status quo. Zizek does nothing of the sort - on the contrary, when push comes to shove, he always defends it and attacks the revolts against it, as he also does here. Verbally backstabbing not only the Prague Spring, but even Corbyn is very much his style.
@@musicloverkathy Corbyn was mostly just a moderate social democratic reformist like Sanders in that he simply proposed a return to a post-WW2-style welfare state, a Keynesian rollback of the post-2009 austerity policies, re-nationalisation of the railways and undoing of the Thatcherite privatisations etc.; there were some very timid hints of actually transcending capitalism by introducing some worker participation in decision-making, but even this wasn't unprecedented - Germany has had such things for many decades. You didn't have to be a revolutionary socialist or Marxist in order to support Corbyn at all; any sort of socialist or social democrat worth the name would have supported him as a matter of course, as did Chomsky. On the other hand, it does take a revolutionary Marxist or some other kind of truly radical socialist - which Zizek supposedly is, too - to espouse the idea that capitalism shouldn't have been restored in 1960s Czechoslovakia and that the society we should be striving for is at least as similar to 1960s Czechoslovakia as it is to modern welfare-state capitalism. Or, with another emphasis - as *different* from modern welfare-state capitalism as 1960s Czechoslovakia was. Chomsky, as a libertarian socialist, aka (left-wing) anarchist, would probably agree at least with the latter formulation. All of these distinctions matter little in Zizek's case, of course. He is only a left-winger by the standard of the Daily Mail, meaning somebody who can pronounce the word 'Marx' without spitting. Although, strictly speaking, he fails even by that criterion, since he does spit whenever he is saying anything.
Why is Stalin on the Thumbnail? People will think that Zizek sympathizes with Stalin an thats just wrong. He doesnt even talk about the Soviet Union, he talks about Czeckoslovakia and the pressure of the Soviet Union but not directly about the stalinist regime.
That actually triggered me (in a negative way, as a descendant of ČSSR refugees) and made me click the video. So it's not communist propaganda then and it's worth watching?
@@schweizer93 Im sorry my english isnt that good and i cant understand if you are serious or if you are sarcastic. I was just a little bit angry because I saw the thumbnail and the title of the video and it looked like zizek is telling stalinist propaganda even though he doenst.
Stalin was dead then but his picture was still on the billboards. So the thumbnail wasn't as inaccurate as you think. And where do you think Putin's FSB (ex KGB, ex NKVD) comes from?
So according to the description of video: Stalin, who died in 1953, exerted strong pressure on Czechoslovakia since 1968? I'm just glad you got your facts right. Keep up the good work.
1. He is not praising the Soviet Union. He is just using it as an example. 2. He does not advocate stagnation or disinterest in reaching one's own personal goals. He is just explaining that the pursuit of happiness will not lead you anywhere. You should instead work for a personal cause while being very careful not to find ways to avoid reaching your object of desire (so that you can continue being happy, or, in other words, constantly ruminating on the idea of how wonderful it would be to get that thing you want). He is definitely for productivity.
Stalin died in 1953. But that didn't mean everything changed. It was still the Communist Party of the Soviet Union making the decisions, for instance who they needed to invade that year. Like Xi in China: he's not exactly a Maoist, but it was Mao who put the Chinese Communist Party in a position of absolute power.
Happiness comes from comparison, you feel good when you are in a better situation than in the past, or you live better than other people nearby or above your level, or other people of other countries at the same or higher level. People feel unhappy when they are suffering, but if the government and media fool you that all people in other countries are more suffering, people feel much less pain (e.g. North Korea).
7:04 This kind of demonstrates how disconnected communists are from reality. It's all theories, theories, theories. Never have I been happier for *almost* getting something over having the thing. To the contrary, the fact that I was close to acquiring it but missed in the end elevates the ache even more.
Ok he missed the mark on that one , but how could you make a generalized statement about communism calling an opinion a " theory " communists came up with ?
The ideology is based on "People are miserable when they have too much (freedoms, money, material goods) - so why bother giving it to them?" There's some truth to that, but the Bolsheviks were a very hateful and cynical bunch of intellectuals who forced their hate and cynicism on tens of millions of people - very often (understatement of the 20th century) bringing them to a very early grave. Let people make their own mistakes!!!!!
@@fuckamericanidiot it is very clear to anyone reading that you’re pulling this out of your ass. you completely miss the point about what Zizek is saying but nonetheless generalize it as like “the official communist position” keep reading boy, stop embarrassing yourself in public
Wow. Everyone should watch “Dear Comrades” by by Andrei Konchalovsky a 2020 film because it illustrates perfectly how this notion Zizek refers to works in real time.
Just to correct the description: Stalin died in 1953, and the Prague Spring happened 15 years later, in 1968. Also, the official name of the country at this time was People's Republic of Chekolosvakia, if I am not remebering wrong.
@J S Yeah, you present some points I agree with. The 90s were definitely wild, but I believe that with such a radical change of the system, some naivity and instability can not only be expected, but is almost inevitable. However, I disagree with the sentiment that commies operated in some sort of a neutral hypothetical grey area. It was an oppressive regime! You can't just write all the atrocities off because people had jobs (also because unemployment was illegal and we can talk about the efficiency of some workers too) and had stuff to eat (kinda sucked if you wanted meat or some other basic groceries tho). While I'm not excusing what happened in the 90s - and the effect of that can still be seen today, in the form of oligarchs and general corruption (which I belive flourished under communism just as much) - I think it's very important not to understand the 90s as an indicative of the current system, which is objectively better. People are free, they're richer and they live better lives, which they were not allowed to live under communism.
@@dafyduck79 I mean, ANY totalitarianism is better than the party democracy we live in. I prefer to have one corrupt person over 300 corrupt people that pretend to be enemies of each other and involve the population into their stupid government. If you want to involve a family with the rest of the families in the nation it better just be through their jobs, as this is the natural way.
@@gabrielalbeldaochoa8234 i like your last sentence i mean free society means, that people voluntarily exchange goods and services without valuating property rights, with big accent on voluntarily
@@dafyduck79 Society is mainly the union of families to carry out tasks that one family on its own can't. Capitalism makes of that exchange of goods a divine entity that is independent from society when it actually was born through society.
Happiness is easy, just give me 3 free days and Vodka. For me, the question is - what is there, that is worth suffering for? For what should I 'give' myself? Then I can ask - will I be appreciated, respected and adequately compensated - is the struggle real.
So good that we have the genius Zizek to tell us what should make us happy and how we should feel under the yoke of an authoritarian regime! Oh great Zizek, lead us to the mediocre great future of a reasonably and gloriously average life and so on and so on!
So what if standing by your desire also brings you happiness? does this imply a skewed relationship with the truth? or is the resulting happiness not understood as happiness in lacanian terms?
In Lacanian terms, you suffer from original trauma and desire the object that has been taken from you, the thing that will make you whole. The reality, of course, is that your alienation is existential and there is no way to mend the wound that is your subjectivity. So once you actually get a grasp on the object you thought you were missing, you are filled with emptiness because you realize it doesn't actually make you whole. Surely you've experienced this in some way, where you saved up for something, like a new car or even just a TV, and once you got it and realized you still have desires, you feel kind of empty, worse than before, when you were striving towards something. This is why, in standing by your desire, you're supposed to act out a failure, so that the actual object of your desire is immortalized as the dream you just missed. The reality of the object (be it "real" communism, the labour party winning the election, or even just the new TV you've been saving for) will sooner or later reveal itself to be crooked, because reality is crooked.
His second argument is sort of faulty because in a democracy you are free to not involve yourself in politics. And on the contrary, wanting to get involved in politics in a communist country and being unable to do so creates unhappiness.
But the point was more simple than that. People like to blame others and feel like they themselves didn't contribute to failure. People don't like responsibility. But this is impossible in liberalism because you are made to feel like as if you have a voice and you change things by voting or lobbying. But when inevitably something fails then you are made to feel guilty yourself because you decided who is in power. Not voting is a vote in itself, because it affects the result. People try to emulate this in liberalism by always blaming the other party and pretending that your party is perfect, but everyone is self aware enough to understand it is a lie. It can't approach the pure happiness felt in a communist country where you can, without guilt, blame those in power, knowing you can't influence it.
I disagree with his definition of happiness, what he describes is some superficial happiness but what about true fulfillment? Not that it is perceived at all times but I can say that I have perceived it at times that were quite different from the state that he describes. To me it is in the moment when I make progress, when I go beyond what I thought I could reach, like reaching a new level, getting a new perspective. E.g., I am truly happy while watching this videos and getting a new insight... But at the same time also some kind of inner calmness, not necessarily a constant state but something that shimmers through even in difficult moments because I know I can take a deep breath and it is all not so bad and I know I can manage whatever is going to come. Some sense of security but more from the inside. Any thoughts on this anyone?
Clearly according to Zizek, life in a Gulag becomes happy if you manage to organize above starvation level ... Everything is possible with some Hegelian magic.
I disagree. It feels like he has never lived under communism …. my country was part of USSR And he’s three points of what makes you happy doesn’t really apply in practical sense lots of people cheated and actually sold items which means engaged in capitalist system lots of people bought for him products that were illegal in USSR any nowhere you have a private life, snitches are everywhere. Peace is very relative term under communism
@@mmkw5621 then they dont understand that it was not possible to keep it long term. my grandma also misses it because my country flourished and improved under USSR but slowly cracks started to be seen and system collapsed
If what he is saying is the case then it appears that fully fledged successful and true communism (where we people get what they want) would be a nightmare.
That is exactly what Mussolini said to the people: You are free as long you don't act against the State.If you do don't be surprised of a visit from the boys in black.
Yes look at Cuba 🇨🇺 today people are very happy to move to US, I used to love there still have nightmares. Bunch of deep bs about living in Czechoslovakia and happiness, people could not wait to get out of that paradise
Yes. My girlfriend's mom left North Korea. She almost died and was shot at trying to leave the worker's paradise with free healthcare, free education and guaranteed employment. They don't pay you, but guaranteed employment harvesting rice.
Yes I had free everything and employment was 100% people that refused to work went to jail and worked there for free, that is wonderful socialist solution. God bless you all
@@karolkupec2044 I am glad you made it out!! People are so ignorant. That type of society is inhumane. People need to own things. People need to trade. The myth of "the people" controlling the means of production is impossible. There is always inequality even in a communist utopia because people have different levels of intelligence and ability based on genetics.
If you want to get Zizek's 'I WOULD PREFER NOT TO' t-shirt you can do so here:
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Mr Zizek is talking such an English that the subtitles are auto-generated in Dutch
spoilers: this was actually a speech in Dutch
it was a speech about robots
Funny cause I thought his accent sounded relatively close to my own in certain ways (from provence of Antwerp)
LOL!
Hahaha classic! Mooi man :)
I realize I am kinda randomly asking but do anybody know a good place to watch newly released series online?
"Happiness is when you almost get what you want" must be why people can watch a 0 - 0 soccer match.
As a long term Liverpool fan, I think I was more happy in 2014 than in 2020.
@@devilsadvocate7389 the paradise of winning the league and CL got too close and real ah
What is soccer?
A 0-0 match can legitimately be very entertaining tho
Me desculpe, eu só conheço futebol
"Truth and happiness does not go together" - isn't that just great.
"Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness is only outside of history. Hegel
Depends, what do you mean by truth and happiness?
@@Marzaries How do you interpret the two?
@@Yet.Another.Rapper.KiG.V2 They are just concepts. And anything I will say after this fact, will just be added or subtracted from the pool of concepts we draw from. Rather, whatever truth and happiness are, refer to something deeper, something unutterable. (Life) -- if that is an appropriate usage of the term here, is a movement towards that thing which is unutterable. And, in this movement we give things names, but they do not define us, nor construct our overall experiences. They are just tools of navigation, from which we draw upon, but they are not the totality of things as such.
Once again people missing the point of Zizek hegelian method of presentation, and conclusion. He is not advocating the soviet failure while saying it was a happy time, he is putting in check the notion of happiness, by comparing it with a failure. The biggest product in capitalism is happiness. Not in the notion that you can buy happiness directly from the product, that would be a pagan way of thinking, but by the notion that while buying it you achieves happiness on itself, the new pentecostal way to see it.
Zizek is, of course, touching on ideology and how our happiness is based not in the pursue of it, but by the illusion of having it. That way Zizek also touches in the notion of Utopia. The only way to live "happy" at the utopia, is to never build it.
Yes, Zizek can sound confusing at times, but he is very consistent, talking in hegelian terms about politics, while using Lacan for his reasoning and conclusion.
the zizek understander has logged on
@@TytoAlpha my got
Z is an intellectual fraud, destroying minds with contradictions. He does not want to focus his mind.
@@TytoAlpha Sorry I should have posted some meme about nose or his speech pattern. Silly me trying to make a point on a philosophy video.
@@TeaParty1776 k Chomsky
Here I claim, that it is PRECISELY this UA-cam algorithm, that is supposed to be so radicalizing and mind-numbing and so on and so on, that brings me to worthwhile new content and that, therefore, brings me happiness. * sniff *
Don't forget the UH! UH--UH--UH--UHHH..UH! interjections
Here I claim, that it is PRECISELY this UA-cam algorithm, that is supposed to be so radicalizing and mind-numbing and so on and so on, that brings me to worthwhile new content to study and that, therefore, is an excuse for me to procrastinate studying for what I'm actually supposed to study.
He is back
Hell yeah
When we needed him the most
Yes, BACKWARDS TO THE GULAGS AND THE FORBIDDEN THOUGHT.
Thank God
is this really from now? He acutally looks younger than before!
"there is a greek woman here. i would like to ask her a question." (doesn't ask her a question)
That was pretty funny
Welcome back! I always loved your works.
Zizek is one of the those guys that I can describe as clickbait in human form. He leads you in with controversial statements and in just a few minutes he makes you feel stupid for ever thinking they were controversial.
I guess you and 76 other people didn't correctly interprete the quotation marks in which "happier" stands
Welcome back. So good to listen to your speech again. Happy April🌺🌱🦋
2:18 the second point is an eye-opener for me. Thanks Dr. Zizek. I'll include this in my reviewing of my own decisions.
hes back, finally! I missed these quick zizek talks!
My gott! You're back!
I didnt think you would come back to UA-cam I became a total pessimist and so on
“Now I will become a Christian”
I am so happy you are back!
Nice you're uploading again!
When I still see Chomsky being lauded as The World's Greatest Dissident, I think of Slovaj. Not to underestimate the greatness of Manufacturing Consent, but Slovaj is 100 times more in touch with real people and builds his immense theoretical scholarship on what we actually live. He makes Chomsky look like an amateur.
The World's Greatest Gravy-Stained Dissident 😅
These two are not comparable at all, since only one of them is some kind of dissident at all. Chomsky actually does something to fight the existing capitalist-imperialist status quo. Zizek does nothing of the sort - on the contrary, when push comes to shove, he always defends it and attacks the revolts against it, as he also does here. Verbally backstabbing not only the Prague Spring, but even Corbyn is very much his style.
@@dumupad3-da241 And Corbyn is your idea of mainstream? Explain that.
@@musicloverkathy Corbyn was mostly just a moderate social democratic reformist like Sanders in that he simply proposed a return to a post-WW2-style welfare state, a Keynesian rollback of the post-2009 austerity policies, re-nationalisation of the railways and undoing of the Thatcherite privatisations etc.; there were some very timid hints of actually transcending capitalism by introducing some worker participation in decision-making, but even this wasn't unprecedented - Germany has had such things for many decades. You didn't have to be a revolutionary socialist or Marxist in order to support Corbyn at all; any sort of socialist or social democrat worth the name would have supported him as a matter of course, as did Chomsky. On the other hand, it does take a revolutionary Marxist or some other kind of truly radical socialist - which Zizek supposedly is, too - to espouse the idea that capitalism shouldn't have been restored in 1960s Czechoslovakia and that the society we should be striving for is at least as similar to 1960s Czechoslovakia as it is to modern welfare-state capitalism. Or, with another emphasis - as *different* from modern welfare-state capitalism as 1960s Czechoslovakia was. Chomsky, as a libertarian socialist, aka (left-wing) anarchist, would probably agree at least with the latter formulation. All of these distinctions matter little in Zizek's case, of course. He is only a left-winger by the standard of the Daily Mail, meaning somebody who can pronounce the word 'Marx' without spitting. Although, strictly speaking, he fails even by that criterion, since he does spit whenever he is saying anything.
worlds greatest CIA-funded "dissident"
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Why is Stalin on the Thumbnail? People will think that Zizek sympathizes with Stalin an thats just wrong. He doesnt even talk about the Soviet Union, he talks about Czeckoslovakia and the pressure of the Soviet Union but not directly about the stalinist regime.
That actually triggered me (in a negative way, as a descendant of ČSSR refugees) and made me click the video. So it's not communist propaganda then and it's worth watching?
@@schweizer93 Im sorry my english isnt that good and i cant understand if you are serious or if you are sarcastic. I was just a little bit angry because I saw the thumbnail and the title of the video and it looked like zizek is telling stalinist propaganda even though he doenst.
Who cares. Stalin goes brr.
@@mustaineforpresident delete this
Stalin was dead then but his picture was still on the billboards. So the thumbnail wasn't as inaccurate as you think. And where do you think Putin's FSB (ex KGB, ex NKVD) comes from?
Truth and Happiness don't always go together and Desire and happiness don't go together
You have to be heroic enough to stand by your desire.
Heroic? Cute.
@@TheRaveJunkie thanks, I try
So according to the description of video: Stalin, who died in 1953, exerted strong pressure on Czechoslovakia since 1968? I'm just glad you got your facts right. Keep up the good work.
:'D yeah should be Brezhnev
1. He is not praising the Soviet Union. He is just using it as an example.
2. He does not advocate stagnation or disinterest in reaching one's own personal goals. He is just explaining that the pursuit of happiness will not lead you anywhere. You should instead work for a personal cause while being very careful not to find ways to avoid reaching your object of desire (so that you can continue being happy, or, in other words, constantly ruminating on the idea of how wonderful it would be to get that thing you want).
He is definitely for productivity.
In the description you say normalisation occured under Stalin, but it began in 1968, 15 years after Stalin's death. This is a classic Brezhnev policy
Sitting in quarantine and becoming more aware of how much I touch my face.
Why police yourself like that in your own home? Just wash your hands when you get home and be free, as free as you can be.
One of Zizek's best
the description of this video erroneously refers to Stalin, but Stalin died 15 years before the normalisation period began.
Stalin died in 1953. But that didn't mean everything changed. It was still the Communist Party of the Soviet Union making the decisions, for instance who they needed to invade that year. Like Xi in China: he's not exactly a Maoist, but it was Mao who put the Chinese Communist Party in a position of absolute power.
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Moar!
Happiness comes from comparison, you feel good when you are in a better situation than in the past, or you live better than other people nearby or above your level, or other people of other countries at the same or higher level. People feel unhappy when they are suffering, but if the government and media fool you that all people in other countries are more suffering, people feel much less pain (e.g. North Korea).
It was a very similar situation in Poland in most of the communist era, really. Great analysis.
7:04 This kind of demonstrates how disconnected communists are from reality. It's all theories, theories, theories. Never have I been happier for *almost* getting something over having the thing. To the contrary, the fact that I was close to acquiring it but missed in the end elevates the ache even more.
Ok he missed the mark on that one , but how could you make a generalized statement about communism calling an opinion a " theory " communists came up with ?
The ideology is based on "People are miserable when they have too much (freedoms, money, material goods) - so why bother giving it to them?"
There's some truth to that, but the Bolsheviks were a very hateful and cynical bunch of intellectuals who forced their hate and cynicism on tens of millions of people - very often (understatement of the 20th century) bringing them to a very early grave.
Let people make their own mistakes!!!!!
@@fuckamericanidiot it is very clear to anyone reading that you’re pulling this out of your ass. you completely miss the point about what Zizek is saying but nonetheless generalize it as like “the official communist position”
keep reading boy, stop embarrassing yourself in public
@@funnyhandle Thanks for adding nothing except to show that you're afraid to demonstrate how ignorant you are. Smart.
@@fuckamericanidiot lol and what did you say? "Bolsheviks were meanies!" I think you missed the point
May I add: the fourth element is freedom of movement. In Yugoslavia one could travel anywhere in the world.
Welcome back! When did this talk take place?
Happiness is the feeling before you want more Happiness...
~ D. Draper
Zizek is my friend (in my head) and that makes me happy
The idea of Prague Spring being a perfect dream because it was stopped reminds me of the Neil Gaiman comic Ramadan.
what was the german phrase he spoke at 5:16?
"Aber glücklich bin ich nicht"
But happy I am not
This is a way better analysis of happiness than any of Arthur C. Brooks stories.
It's just lame Hegelianism in the vein "man is made for history". I can assure you that adult life under a communist regime was horrible !
Wow. Everyone should watch “Dear Comrades” by by Andrei Konchalovsky a 2020 film because it illustrates perfectly how this notion Zizek refers to works in real time.
This is a new record: he touched his face 7 times in 10 seconds (From 4:14 to 4:24)
Lol
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Just to correct the description: Stalin died in 1953, and the Prague Spring happened 15 years later, in 1968. Also, the official name of the country at this time was People's Republic of Chekolosvakia, if I am not remebering wrong.
@J S Your grandparents didn't get to rebuild anything after the war because everything got stolen.
@J S Yeah, you present some points I agree with. The 90s were definitely wild, but I believe that with such a radical change of the system, some naivity and instability can not only be expected, but is almost inevitable. However, I disagree with the sentiment that commies operated in some sort of a neutral hypothetical grey area. It was an oppressive regime! You can't just write all the atrocities off because people had jobs (also because unemployment was illegal and we can talk about the efficiency of some workers too) and had stuff to eat (kinda sucked if you wanted meat or some other basic groceries tho).
While I'm not excusing what happened in the 90s - and the effect of that can still be seen today, in the form of oligarchs and general corruption (which I belive flourished under communism just as much) - I think it's very important not to understand the 90s as an indicative of the current system, which is objectively better. People are free, they're richer and they live better lives, which they were not allowed to live under communism.
The funny thing is that those arguments are very similar to the ones monarchists used (and use).
every totalitarian; people are dumb, i know whats the best for them
@@dafyduck79 I mean, ANY totalitarianism is better than the party democracy we live in. I prefer to have one corrupt person over 300 corrupt people that pretend to be enemies of each other and involve the population into their stupid government. If you want to involve a family with the rest of the families in the nation it better just be through their jobs, as this is the natural way.
@@gabrielalbeldaochoa8234 i like your last sentence
i mean free society means, that people voluntarily exchange goods and services without valuating property rights, with big accent on voluntarily
@@dafyduck79 Society is mainly the union of families to carry out tasks that one family on its own can't. Capitalism makes of that exchange of goods a divine entity that is independent from society when it actually was born through society.
What does it mean to "be heroic enough to stand by your desire?"
Finally, new Zizekposting!
As long as you didn’t question the powerful, you were…..”happy”
People are happy, when they look around and they see that everyone is just like them.
@Elias Håkansson relax, you can be homogenous and still be anti racist and democratic.
I am happiest every few years or so when the power goes out here for a day or so during a winter storm. Probably all the conditions he listed apply.
Great speech
"love is a catastrophic", this is so true.
"Paradise has to be at an appropriate distance. If its too easily accessible you see its the same shit as where we are."
I love Zizek.
Happiness is easy, just give me 3 free days and Vodka. For me, the question is - what is there, that is worth suffering for? For what should I 'give' myself? Then I can ask - will I be appreciated, respected and adequately compensated - is the struggle real.
Missed this man 👨
MY CONTINUAL SUBSCRIPTION WAS NOT IN VEIN!!!
IT WAS IN ARTERY INSTEAD!!!
wow it's actually mental some people think like this.
Pure ideology *sniffle*
anyone know what he says in German at 5:15?
He is so wise!
He's so wise
keep uploading video,plz
So good that we have the genius Zizek to tell us what should make us happy and how we should feel under the yoke of an authoritarian regime! Oh great Zizek, lead us to the mediocre great future of a reasonably and gloriously average life and so on and so on!
Bitter haha
also... nice weather helps ;)
Does he slobber in Slovenian too?
Hey Slavoj Žižecki I love you
Slavoj is a great Coronian reminder: ”Don't touch your face!”
Love it !
Important distinction is the soviet system. Definitely not what marx had in mind.
Welcome back comrade
The human condition and entropy precludes a stable state of mind.
After hearing Mr. Zizek speak one thing is clear, happiness is not the path to progress. If anything, it's the opposite.
So what if standing by your desire also brings you happiness? does this imply a skewed relationship with the truth? or is the resulting happiness not understood as happiness in lacanian terms?
In Lacanian terms, you suffer from original trauma and desire the object that has been taken from you, the thing that will make you whole. The reality, of course, is that your alienation is existential and there is no way to mend the wound that is your subjectivity. So once you actually get a grasp on the object you thought you were missing, you are filled with emptiness because you realize it doesn't actually make you whole. Surely you've experienced this in some way, where you saved up for something, like a new car or even just a TV, and once you got it and realized you still have desires, you feel kind of empty, worse than before, when you were striving towards something.
This is why, in standing by your desire, you're supposed to act out a failure, so that the actual object of your desire is immortalized as the dream you just missed. The reality of the object (be it "real" communism, the labour party winning the election, or even just the new TV you've been saving for) will sooner or later reveal itself to be crooked, because reality is crooked.
They were 'happier' because they had a defined purpose, whatever that is...
I have settled for "peace of mind " instead of "happiness" happiness is a nightmare so is eternal life .
Happiest chasing a goal.
Stalin did not intervene, it was Brezhnev. The invasion happened in 1968, 15 years after Stalin's death. But Brezhnev was still a strong stalinist.
nah he continued the khurschev-esque reforms but wanted to rule and not normalize as much
Spot on Tsipras, he knew the Greeks weren"t paying their taxes.
His second argument is sort of faulty because in a democracy you are free to not involve yourself in politics. And on the contrary, wanting to get involved in politics in a communist country and being unable to do so creates unhappiness.
But the point was more simple than that. People like to blame others and feel like they themselves didn't contribute to failure. People don't like responsibility. But this is impossible in liberalism because you are made to feel like as if you have a voice and you change things by voting or lobbying. But when inevitably something fails then you are made to feel guilty yourself because you decided who is in power. Not voting is a vote in itself, because it affects the result.
People try to emulate this in liberalism by always blaming the other party and pretending that your party is perfect, but everyone is self aware enough to understand it is a lie. It can't approach the pure happiness felt in a communist country where you can, without guilt, blame those in power, knowing you can't influence it.
can anybody tell me what says in german?
i like how he doesnt claim to know the answers and do exact opposite, come up with more and more question, which are very often valid. Food for brain
Turn captions on and you won't regret it 🤣
Zizek broke the auto generator!
was about to comment the same thing. laughed so hard.
I disagree with his definition of happiness, what he describes is some superficial happiness but what about true fulfillment? Not that it is perceived at all times but I can say that I have perceived it at times that were quite different from the state that he describes. To me it is in the moment when I make progress, when I go beyond what I thought I could reach, like reaching a new level, getting a new perspective. E.g., I am truly happy while watching this videos and getting a new insight... But at the same time also some kind of inner calmness, not necessarily a constant state but something that shimmers through even in difficult moments because I know I can take a deep breath and it is all not so bad and I know I can manage whatever is going to come. Some sense of security but more from the inside. Any thoughts on this anyone?
Because all those defectors just wanted blue jeans?
Finally...
Zizeks lisp has a life of it's own.
My favorite Dwemer logician.
Clearly according to Zizek, life in a Gulag becomes happy if you manage to organize above starvation level ... Everything is possible with some Hegelian magic.
I disagree. It feels like he has never lived under communism …. my country was part of USSR And he’s three points of what makes you happy doesn’t really apply in practical sense lots of people cheated and actually sold items which means engaged in capitalist system lots of people bought for him products that were illegal in USSR any nowhere you have a private life, snitches are everywhere. Peace is very relative term under communism
Most relatives i know miss communism
@@mmkw5621 then they dont understand that it was not possible to keep it long term. my grandma also misses it because my country flourished and improved under USSR but slowly cracks started to be seen and system collapsed
As ALWAYS the title is misleading
"Love is a catastrophe."
If what he is saying is the case then it appears that fully fledged successful and true communism (where we people get what they want) would be a nightmare.
he is almost literally describing Syria in the 90's!!
Slavoj "and so on and so on" Zizek.
I heard about you from RM Brown. "Jesus Chrwist!"
"I want to go a step further"
"What? You Slavoj? Really?"
Holy hell, I've just heard the worst take on happiness.
That is exactly what Mussolini said to the people: You are free as long you don't act against the State.If you do don't be surprised of a visit from the boys in black.
He generated subs in Dutch, god (well..) bless him!!! 😆😆😆
I want to be free to be miserable.
Yes look at Cuba 🇨🇺 today people are very happy to move to US, I used to love there still have nightmares. Bunch of deep bs about living in Czechoslovakia and happiness, people could not wait to get out of that paradise
Yes. My girlfriend's mom left North Korea. She almost died and was shot at trying to leave the worker's paradise with free healthcare, free education and guaranteed employment. They don't pay you, but guaranteed employment harvesting rice.
Yes I had free everything and employment was 100% people that refused to work went to jail and worked there for free, that is wonderful socialist solution. God bless you all
@@karolkupec2044 I am glad you made it out!! People are so ignorant. That type of society is inhumane. People need to own things. People need to trade. The myth of "the people" controlling the means of production is impossible. There is always inequality even in a communist utopia because people have different levels of intelligence and ability based on genetics.
There's a spider in my mine.