The temptation to comment on his inability to leave his nose alone is indeed great. But some informed person would probably say he's suffering from some Rhino-something-something illness, and what a horrible person I am to make fun of that. But still, I can't help but wonder how he is doing under covid19, now that we shouldn't touch our faces and all.
Imagine a comment section under a convicted rock spiders monologue where people comment his grooming techniques instead of his behaviours and body count.
I don't always agree with Zizek but arguments he made here are brilliant. The rising pan-european movement is the only remaining progressive unifying force that wants to play the notes established by the Enlightenment, that's why I'm staunchly pro-European. EU is the sole dominant internationalist political body concerned with positive liberty, stemming the tide of corporate interests and assault on human rights. What else do we have? We're trapped between the US, Russia and China - all increasingly authoritarian, isolationist, fiercely particularist, with the society sacrificed on the altar of capitalism rather than vice versa. Rejecting this legacy on the basis of anticolonialism is just radlib insanity.
EU is a minor partner of the US's gendarme activities in the middle east and africa. It's also screwing its own weaker members through economic warfare, like in greece. I'm not against european identity, but the EU has to go
@@lucianoosinaga2980 How exactly are they screwing up the weaker members when it literally pours so much of their budget into these countries? Greece honestly did it to itself. It took billions from the EU and wasted it carelessly. Now they refuse to pay their debt. Why do people have to always nlame the EU for problems that go solely for a specific country? And tell me, how exactly would Europe survive without being united? The only thing a breakup of the union will lead to is more wars caused by imperialist authoritarian nations like Russia, China, Turkey, etc.
Pan-europeanism is on the rise? As an outsider, I notice that nationalist movements are on the rise in some European movements. Even if you ignore Brexit, the only best event of pan-europeanism being on the rise is probably the Euromaidan movement in Ukraine.
@@talhabedir3812 I often find myself agreeing with Chomsky when it comes to his analyses of particular political issues, but on more general philosophical issues I tend to prefer Zizek, whom I find to be more nuanced.
"What gives me hope for Europe is that, my God, all the bad guys hate Europe, Putin Trump..." This is so right and Christ, we need to do better but let's not forget if Putin hates us we might be up to something.
@@strausan because the EU stops Russia's influence in the east, and American influence in Europe. And also the EU is a generally pro government welfare and much more progressive than other unions in the world. That is why I like it.
It's the basis of capitalism, there is no debate to be had about the fact. "Exploitation" has negative connotations nowadays, because of the excesses of the 19th century, but originally it just means to make use of what you have. Resources and opportunity. Workers are exploited, self-exploitation is a thing. The contention is about how much is too much. It is naïve to think that you get the most use from labour by having them work 24/7. Humans do not work that way. As Paul Lafarge mentions in his famous essay, productivity went up when working hours went down. In hindsight it should be no surprise that people work better when they are well-rested. And people want to be productive. One thing Marx and Engels criticised about the trade unions was that they demanded better working conditions instead of seizing the means of production wholesale. Workers went on strike to demand conditions in which they could be exploited more profitably. And the reason Marx disowned Lafarge is because Lafarge pointed out that the capitalists don't want to exploit the workers, they don't benefit from productivity and the wealth of nations, they benefit from inequality. They shortened the work hours to decrease productivity, because supply already exceeded demand and drove down prices, only for the workers getting more sleep to have the opposite effect.
@@ArmLegLegArmHead47 He didn't have a stroke, he had Bell's palsy. It's pretty harmless though it looks scary. It can happen to anyone at any moment. My mom had it for a while as well.
I don't think people respect his ability to debate in a language which is not his first language and he probably didn't learn in his childhood. I can't even speak English this well, goddamn
I would like to offer my own view on the point of faith and determinism that Zizek touched on. The reason why the belief in faith can be so helpful to achieve things is the certainty it offers. If you KNOW you are destined for something grand (communism in Stalinist USSR) then you will stop at nothing to see that certainty come through. You will always take that next step even if the present is uncertain because the future is certain. This means your will becomes unbreakable.
I absolutely fucking love living in Europe, and am as proud of each unique country on this beautiful content - as ugly and checkered as parts of their pasts may be - as I am of their capacity to have chosen unity, economic and political. I feel just as French as I do European, there's no compromise of culture there. For all the EU's problems, I still wouldn't want to live anywhere else in the world. Never thought I'd hear myself say this as a left leaning person but I fucking love my country and I love my continent.
Unity of the Euorope is important since it's the closest model for the future of united world. There's no problem in the concept of unity, but the practices. The problem is that unity is made as a reaction to conflict with someone else, and that's exactly the base of EU which is concieved after ww2 as a consequence of conflict to SSSR. That way of unity made by urge of conflict is always distorted in it's base, and it will never have a good future, whether the conflict continues or it never happen again: it will have enemies or it will decept when enemies pull away.
I'd say it's his worst I have seen so far. His main point is well-made, but he gets side-tracked by Descartes and fatalism, and he does a poor job on elaborating on fatalism. His defence of Eurocentrism seems irrelevant to the point.
I like this guy. Even if he is a dirty commie. At least you can have a reasoned debate without everything being dogged down with identity and mickey mouse grievance politics.
These horrible things are called horrible only because of European moral system and enlightenment in general. Id you asked a Mongol from 13th century about it he would say "such is life". Whole world was in endless loop untill Europeans fundamentally changed the whole thing.
Europeans only started asking themselves the questions on the nature of humanity and who we are after interactions with people who had completely different views on the nature of reality. It is not a European tradition, it only seems that way because you have extinguished all other traditions of thought that your thought was actually based on.
@@blah55044 even if those people had different views (and most of the main players didn't) they did jack to change the status Quo that existed for 100 000 years. Then Europeans invented the modern wolrd in 2000 years
@@Tonixxy Imagine thinking centuries of history that much of European thought is based on is "jack shit". You are utterly one dimensional, disregard entire histories of cultures far older than yours. Read Dawn of Everything, it's a nice little primer that will help you deconstruct your notions of European exceptionalism.
I like Zizek, but when he speaks about forming regional and/or global structures, I remember that he's a classical socialist/communist and not a libertarian-leftist. What have all of the most aggressive or repressive political states had in common throughout history? They were the largest. USA/USSR/China/Rome/Carolingian Europe etc. Whether they were hunting down 'Commies' or invading the Third World, disappearing Democratic activists or killing trade-union advocates, and locking up half the population. And some people want a *global* state? They're out of their minds...
I agree with the utility and the purpose that Europe represents. But the EU is long overdue for massive reforms. What we have now, operates against the purpose and benefit of its people and only supports the big european multinationals only. To say nothings about the debt, the borders, and the immigrants.
If we think from a nationalist, isolated and insular perspective, it will be very difficult for us to give a complete answer to this question, in order to address this terrible crisis in which we are stuck, it is essential to put aside any type of political, religious even social and nacionalist ideology and confront directly with this problem. The crisis is not political; the crisis is not economic, nor religious, but the crisis is in consciousness, in our minds, in our hearts, in our brain. The crisis is there. And the politicians, however capable, and the scientists, the biologists, the micro-biologists and so on, they are not going to solve our problems - they have not. Perhaps they will increase more and more our problems. It is because we are nationalists, ready to defend our sovereign States, our beliefs and acquisitions, that we must be perpetually armed. Property and ideas have become more important to us than human life, so there is constant antagonism and violence between ourselves and others. By maintaining the sovereignty of our country, we are destroying our sons; by worshiping the State, which is nothing but a projection of ourselves, we are sacrificing our children to our own gratification. Nationalism and sovereign governments are the causes and instruments of war. Nationalism is the glorification of tribalism, and politicians maintain this tribal division. So the question of what is the future of the European Union is not the right question, the real question involved in all this is what is the future of mankind?
"The crisis is not political; the crisis is not economic, nor religious, but the crisis is in consciousness, in our minds, in our hearts, in our brain." "The crisis is there. And the politicians, however capable, and the scientists, the biologists, the micro-biologists and so on, they are not going to solve our problems - they have not. Perhaps they will increase more and more our problems." I don't know if you even realize, but your arguments are in direct conflict. If the politicians do nothing to solve it, it's a political crisis; if the banks, one of if not *the* main economical forces on both the global and national stages, do nothing to solve any problem, it *is* an economical problem, etc. But it's funny how you include the scientists here. They are not a magical solution to all the problems of the world. They may discover or create stuff, but that is the result of time and work. "It is because we are nationalists, ready to defend our sovereign States, our beliefs and acquisitions, that we must be perpetually armed. Property and ideas have become more important to us than human life, so there is constant antagonism and violence between ourselves and others." The problem is people like you, who think everyone else should fix everything and this random youtube comment will move anyone, and that's ignoring how abstract it is. "By maintaining the sovereignty of our country, we are destroying our sons" If you had written that now.... By your logic, if a country is going to get attacked, they should just accept it? Or what if a society accepts something that is inadmissible for another, and a person moves from one country to another? Surely nothing will happen. Like, ever.
@Simon Eminger "The ideals [...] are still carried by the EU" I disagree vehemently with that statement. The EU at it's core is undemocratic because parliament the European people are voting for doesn't have any legislative power and are basically just yes-men for the European commission. Today the EU is little more than a cartell that has a stranglehold on the entire European economy. Easy immigration keeps wages low, even in the leading nations like Germany, by using the people of the economically weaker country to take over the jobs the native population in a given country isn't willing to take anymore because of low wages or other factors. On top of that it allows manufacturing to be outsources to economically weaker countries because there are no customs fees between the cou tries. The EU makes the rich richer and the poor poorer.
It’s my ideas of Europe , there are the great political views of conservatism and historical views. It looks stress with your progress to gets but dare not to walked ahead with the USA government’s coverage with propaganda and supporting weaponry for awareness of Russia and China in commercial development. It’s the views of accept for the USA government’s policy to take advantages.
"Uncle Sam is strong and powerful" says Trump, "Uncle Sam fear n-" some immigrants walk in, "can we live here?" "AAAaaahh! National emergency, alert the military! There are brown people, I'm gonna piss myself!" Calmy explains Donald Trump, 45th president of The Mighty U.S.
He says so much without actually saying anything. It would help if he actually finished one point without going off on a tangent and then getting lost in his own words. Mumbo Jumbo.
I'll tell you one joke that could be the typical that Zizek tells, although this one is to make fun of one of the things he says here. The eternal European to the eternal African: "OK. It is true. I slaved your great great great ... grandfather. I murdered in multiple genocides your great grandfather. I segregated and exploited your grandfather. I made a servant of your father, just paying peanuts. But, really, you should be thankful. you know why?" "Why? says the African "Only thanks to me you know now that all these things were wrong!" So. Europeans really think Africans would never have noticed. Enlightenement, my God
stop projecting yourself and your inner circle onto others (you mainly disagree with). Zizek has never tried drugs and is vocally opposed to drugs. [Source: the guy himself, look it up] PS: your favorite sophist is an addict, though. How sad.
Once you scrub your mind and intellect with some kind of cleansing soap and study the notion/concept of communism itself, come back to this video and rewatch it.
@@ZainKhan-sm8gr That came nowhere close to addressing my question. I tend to like Zizek, but I find his romanticisation of modern Europe to be a bit inconsistent with his claimed economic ideology.
If you think everything left of Attila the Hun is communism, as Chomsky characterises the view of Peterson, then you'll probably have a problem reconciling the two. If you can think of the word "social'" as in "not being a predator on the poor", then there may be a way to.
I’ve watched several clips of him and in some he says after being called a communist that he calls himself that to provoke. Perhaps that makes it a little more clear.
Unfortunately, globalisation demands it. The economic system and the political system are one and the same as they both work for the same people and the same goals: capitalists and capitalism.
It seems he's fighting ghosts. The idea that it is a "we" and "them" and that "they" are evil is something that can be theorized, but in todays market no one really knows who's the bourgois and whos the proletarian. He also uses, as JBP says a slight of hand that in one hand celebrates Mao and with a small caviat - "i dont like him, but". One can use this logic towards slavery and all kinds of horrible ideas and motions. The problem with intellectuals is that they, most often, never suffer from the ideas they propose.
I doubt smoking cannabis will help him gather his thought when he speak in front of a bunch of people. Cannabis is also unhealthy, it also decrease ambition which will hamper his productivity.
If you want to get Zizek's 'I WOULD PREFER NOT TO' t-shirt you can do so here:
i-would-prefer-not-to.com
Imagine a comment section under Žižek's monologue where people comment his ideas instead of his behaviours and habits
And so on and so on
Is that even legal?
The temptation to comment on his inability to leave his nose alone is indeed great. But some informed person would probably say he's suffering from some Rhino-something-something illness, and what a horrible person I am to make fun of that. But still, I can't help but wonder how he is doing under covid19, now that we shouldn't touch our faces and all.
When you don't? I'm doing it wrong.
Step 1:Get wife.
Imagine a comment section under a convicted rock spiders monologue where people comment his grooming techniques instead of his behaviours and body count.
wow it only took 6 seconds to get to "And so on and so on"
lol
So-on means noise in Japanese
Soh Ona is my token Japanese friend. She agrees, a majority of words mean noise in Japanese and all of them do if spoken.
Larks Tongues in Aspic - great album!
id say its elephant talk
The "my Gott" will never stop being funny
"Most of it is ideology, I LOVE IT"
- Slavoj Zizek, every single day
I don't always agree with Zizek but arguments he made here are brilliant. The rising pan-european movement is the only remaining progressive unifying force that wants to play the notes established by the Enlightenment, that's why I'm staunchly pro-European. EU is the sole dominant internationalist political body concerned with positive liberty, stemming the tide of corporate interests and assault on human rights. What else do we have? We're trapped between the US, Russia and China - all increasingly authoritarian, isolationist, fiercely particularist, with the society sacrificed on the altar of capitalism rather than vice versa. Rejecting this legacy on the basis of anticolonialism is just radlib insanity.
EU is a minor partner of the US's gendarme activities in the middle east and africa. It's also screwing its own weaker members through economic warfare, like in greece. I'm not against european identity, but the EU has to go
Look at asia, look at india
@@lucianoosinaga2980 How exactly are they screwing up the weaker members when it literally pours so much of their budget into these countries? Greece honestly did it to itself. It took billions from the EU and wasted it carelessly. Now they refuse to pay their debt. Why do people have to always nlame the EU for problems that go solely for a specific country? And tell me, how exactly would Europe survive without being united? The only thing a breakup of the union will lead to is more wars caused by imperialist authoritarian nations like Russia, China, Turkey, etc.
Pan-europeanism is on the rise? As an outsider, I notice that nationalist movements are on the rise in some European movements. Even if you ignore Brexit, the only best event of pan-europeanism being on the rise is probably the Euromaidan movement in Ukraine.
@@beyond_modernity8554 Lol. them lazy greeks! you are a fascist pig
The most rational voice of the left today...
Not hard when the competition is so bad lol.
I prefer chomsky but he's pretty decent as well
@@talhabedir3812 I often find myself agreeing with Chomsky when it comes to his analyses of particular political issues, but on more general philosophical issues I tend to prefer Zizek, whom I find to be more nuanced.
@@talhabedir3812 Chomsky thinks that Zizek is an incomprehensible charlatan clown, BTW.
@@aprescoup zizek is incomprehensible more often than not, but I disagree with chomsky if he thinks zizek is a charlatan.
Before giving Zizek a microphone, installing a pop filter is crucial.
Sift penis'
And disinfect it after
@@davideb.4290 Yes, that's crucial too.
And the popfilter in the washing machine on 90 degrees.
First time seeing this guy once you get used to the sounds he makes and hand movements the information is interesting 👍.
New material, at least for me. Glad to hear him coming forward to contribute afresh. More of this please!
thanks for posting more m8 love his longer vids but this shorter form stuff is always nice to rewatch
Genial, thank you so much for sharing.
"What gives me hope for Europe is that, my God, all the bad guys hate Europe, Putin Trump..." This is so right and Christ, we need to do better but let's not forget if Putin hates us we might be up to something.
the bad guys are european
@@marisa7976 Some are, Orban for instance is a fucking monster, but Putin and Trump are next-level evil and both hate the EU
@@strausan because the EU stops Russia's influence in the east, and American influence in Europe. And also the EU is a generally pro government welfare and much more progressive than other unions in the world. That is why I like it.
@@marisa7976 Fuck you, not sorry, Europa Invicta !!
If we hope to ever achieve global human cooperation, we must start with Europe
Man, I watched a clip of this guy debating Peterson, and I am addicted to these videos! I love them both!
yikes
0:48 "Prevent workers from being exploited too much"
Even thou I don't agree I love the subtle argument that workers are exploited no matter what
It's the basis of capitalism, there is no debate to be had about the fact. "Exploitation" has negative connotations nowadays, because of the excesses of the 19th century, but originally it just means to make use of what you have. Resources and opportunity.
Workers are exploited, self-exploitation is a thing. The contention is about how much is too much. It is naïve to think that you get the most use from labour by having them work 24/7. Humans do not work that way. As Paul Lafarge mentions in his famous essay, productivity went up when working hours went down. In hindsight it should be no surprise that people work better when they are well-rested.
And people want to be productive. One thing Marx and Engels criticised about the trade unions was that they demanded better working conditions instead of seizing the means of production wholesale. Workers went on strike to demand conditions in which they could be exploited more profitably.
And the reason Marx disowned Lafarge is because Lafarge pointed out that the capitalists don't want to exploit the workers, they don't benefit from productivity and the wealth of nations, they benefit from inequality. They shortened the work hours to decrease productivity, because supply already exceeded demand and drove down prices, only for the workers getting more sleep to have the opposite effect.
Recapturing the importance of ideas. Bravo!
Great video, awesome take from Zizek.
So happy his face is normal again.
David McDonagh how was it before?
Spinner1312 I think he had a stroke and because of it his face was paralysed for a time. Nothing current though.
@@ArmLegLegArmHead47 He didn't have a stroke, he had Bell's palsy. It's pretty harmless though it looks scary. It can happen to anyone at any moment. My mom had it for a while as well.
@Rudi Eva & The Baron Be careful, everyone! We've got a badass over here.
Rudi Eva & The Baron how uncivilised
That pause at 2:44 killed me
"I will conclude with" ...10 conclusions later
thats the beauty
And here I can be brutal stalinist
*Can we use it*
Memetic advantage.
Slavoj Zizek is brilliant
0:55 Brave to drink that glass of water within spitting distance
This might be one of his greatest comments.
Everyone chilling except Zizek
Imagine a drinking game where u have to take a shot whenever he says ‘and so on’
That's just one shot. What about when he says "and so on and so on"? Does that constitute a double?😆
you need liver of steel for that, imagining slavoj will only accept vodka challenge
Mazklassa haha. One would drunk so quickly
Kefir & Yakult true. It would be hardcore
idiot
Where can I find the whole video ?
I think we found the original covid super-spreader.
I don't think people respect his ability to debate in a language which is not his first language and he probably didn't learn in his childhood. I can't even speak English this well, goddamn
Absolutely true! The Union brings strength
I would like to offer my own view on the point of faith and determinism that Zizek touched on. The reason why the belief in faith can be so helpful to achieve things is the certainty it offers. If you KNOW you are destined for something grand (communism in Stalinist USSR) then you will stop at nothing to see that certainty come through. You will always take that next step even if the present is uncertain because the future is certain. This means your will becomes unbreakable.
Never stopping to doubt yourself.
You explained it much better than he did.
Zizek gets better and better.
I absolutely fucking love living in Europe, and am as proud of each unique country on this beautiful content - as ugly and checkered as parts of their pasts may be - as I am of their capacity to have chosen unity, economic and political. I feel just as French as I do European, there's no compromise of culture there. For all the EU's problems, I still wouldn't want to live anywhere else in the world. Never thought I'd hear myself say this as a left leaning person but I fucking love my country and I love my continent.
I find my life ebbing away each time Zizek starts his 'and so on' monlogues, its eating into my Lock Down Porn Time rights, (LDPT)
1:30 "We need more forums of SNFFF"
He is not wrong.
SNFF is the answer.
Social Non-Fictional Friendly Forums
Unity of the Euorope is important since it's the closest model for the future of united world. There's no problem in the concept of unity, but the practices. The problem is that unity is made as a reaction to conflict with someone else, and that's exactly the base of EU which is concieved after ww2 as a consequence of conflict to SSSR. That way of unity made by urge of conflict is always distorted in it's base, and it will never have a good future, whether the conflict continues or it never happen again: it will have enemies or it will decept when enemies pull away.
This is one of his best speeches
he made 0 points
I'd say it's his worst I have seen so far.
His main point is well-made, but he gets side-tracked by Descartes and fatalism, and he does a poor job on elaborating on fatalism. His defence of Eurocentrism seems irrelevant to the point.
He’s like a well educated Don Vito
Underrated comment. Lol
So is it now time to ACT? Rather than just think?
when you have enough strategy then you must act
So true slavoj :3
You cannot not love Slavoj Zizek.
I like this guy. Even if he is a dirty commie. At least you can have a reasoned debate without everything being dogged down with identity and mickey mouse grievance politics.
awww man he was in vienna and i didnt know D: D:
He is onipresent. And very wize.
Ljubljana is not far away.
But worker who is paid one ammount for 60h of work will not be paid the same for 40h.
Theory vs practice again
Well how else are we going to force people in foreign nations to live by our standards? I mean come on
Nobody:
Zizek: We live in a dangerous time...
To be fair it is actually impressove the we pulled off a supranational organisation semi-successfully
♥️
If we will not keep beign united as EU, European countries will be under very big influence of US, Russia or China
The EU was created in part by the USA and is heavily influenced by it and even more so by the neoliberalist ideology that comes from there.
I have a simple solution to people who don't like the way he speaks but want to hear his ideas... why not just read his books?
Putin is supporting Catalonia's independence? This is a myth, a hipotesis or there is some declaration, text, article of him saying that?
omg zizek is too good
Nate silver?
These horrible things are called horrible only because of European moral system and enlightenment in general.
Id you asked a Mongol from 13th century about it he would say "such is life".
Whole world was in endless loop untill Europeans fundamentally changed the whole thing.
Myopic and one dimensional Eurocentric view that does not acknowledge the agency of literally everyone else throughout the entirety of human history.
Europeans only started asking themselves the questions on the nature of humanity and who we are after interactions with people who had completely different views on the nature of reality. It is not a European tradition, it only seems that way because you have extinguished all other traditions of thought that your thought was actually based on.
@@blah55044 even if those people had different views (and most of the main players didn't) they did jack to change the status Quo that existed for 100 000 years.
Then Europeans invented the modern wolrd in 2000 years
@@Tonixxy Imagine thinking centuries of history that much of European thought is based on is "jack shit". You are utterly one dimensional, disregard entire histories of cultures far older than yours. Read Dawn of Everything, it's a nice little primer that will help you deconstruct your notions of European exceptionalism.
I think Zizek mixed up Protestants with Calvinists. Predestination is part of Calvinistic thinking but not other forms of Protestantism.
Who is "we"? Us, the people who live in the EU can decide what we want.
Who is this guy to tell us what we should do?
I like Zizek, but when he speaks about forming regional and/or global structures, I remember that he's a classical socialist/communist and not a libertarian-leftist. What have all of the most aggressive or repressive political states had in common throughout history? They were the largest. USA/USSR/China/Rome/Carolingian Europe etc.
Whether they were hunting down 'Commies' or invading the Third World, disappearing Democratic activists or killing trade-union advocates, and locking up half the population. And some people want a *global* state? They're out of their minds...
wow...
I agree with the utility and the purpose that Europe represents. But the EU is long overdue for massive reforms. What we have now, operates against the purpose and benefit of its people and only supports the big european multinationals only. To say nothings about the debt, the borders, and the immigrants.
3 years later, Slavo proven wrong.
11:31
Decentralised intelligence, networking with the consensus of everybody, Bitcoin is just one example
you're an idiot
He is too smart for majority of Western intellectuals
If we think from a nationalist, isolated and insular perspective, it will be very difficult for us to give a complete answer to this question, in order to address this terrible crisis in which we are stuck, it is essential to put aside any type of political, religious even social and nacionalist ideology and confront directly with this problem.
The crisis is not political; the crisis is not economic, nor religious, but the crisis is in consciousness, in our minds, in our hearts, in our brain. The crisis is there. And the politicians, however capable, and the scientists, the biologists, the micro-biologists and so on, they are not going to solve our problems - they have not. Perhaps they will increase more and more our problems.
It is because we are nationalists, ready to defend our sovereign States, our beliefs and acquisitions, that we must be perpetually armed. Property and ideas have become more important to us than human life, so there is constant antagonism and violence between ourselves and others. By maintaining the sovereignty of our country, we are destroying our sons; by worshiping the State, which is nothing but a projection of ourselves, we are sacrificing our children to our own gratification. Nationalism and sovereign governments are the causes and instruments of war.
Nationalism is the glorification of tribalism, and politicians maintain this tribal division.
So the question of what is the future of the European Union is not the right question, the real question involved in all this is what is the future of mankind?
"The crisis is not political; the crisis is not economic, nor religious, but the crisis is in consciousness, in our minds, in our hearts, in our brain."
"The crisis is there. And the politicians, however capable, and the scientists, the biologists, the micro-biologists and so on, they are not going to solve our problems - they have not. Perhaps they will increase more and more our problems."
I don't know if you even realize, but your arguments are in direct conflict. If the politicians do nothing to solve it, it's a political crisis; if the banks, one of if not *the* main economical forces on both the global and national stages, do nothing to solve any problem, it *is* an economical problem, etc.
But it's funny how you include the scientists here. They are not a magical solution to all the problems of the world. They may discover or create stuff, but that is the result of time and work.
"It is because we are nationalists, ready to defend our sovereign States, our beliefs and acquisitions, that we must be perpetually armed. Property and ideas have become more important to us than human life, so there is constant antagonism and violence between ourselves and others."
The problem is people like you, who think everyone else should fix everything and this random youtube comment will move anyone, and that's ignoring how abstract it is.
"By maintaining the sovereignty of our country, we are destroying our sons"
If you had written that now.... By your logic, if a country is going to get attacked, they should just accept it? Or what if a society accepts something that is inadmissible for another, and a person moves from one country to another? Surely nothing will happen. Like, ever.
War existed from the moment an overgrown ape picked up a stone and bashed another ape's brains in. Let's not be so naive
...pan european yada yada yada...
I agree.
Zizek does not consume drugs.
He is crazy a priori.
Omatewlax! Wi' wi' wi' fowthap; tewla, only it tewla!
is Europe = EU ?
No
Is America= USA ?
@Simon Eminger "The ideals [...] are still carried by the EU"
I disagree vehemently with that statement. The EU at it's core is undemocratic because parliament the European people are voting for doesn't have any legislative power and are basically just yes-men for the European commission.
Today the EU is little more than a cartell that has a stranglehold on the entire European economy. Easy immigration keeps wages low, even in the leading nations like Germany, by using the people of the economically weaker country to take over the jobs the native population in a given country isn't willing to take anymore because of low wages or other factors.
On top of that it allows manufacturing to be outsources to economically weaker countries because there are no customs fees between the cou tries.
The EU makes the rich richer and the poor poorer.
When did Duffy duck become RED👊
Behave yourself lolz !!!!🤪 😂😜
It’s my ideas of Europe , there are the great political views of conservatism and historical views. It looks stress with your progress to gets but dare not to walked ahead with the USA government’s coverage with propaganda and supporting weaponry for awareness of Russia and China in commercial development. It’s the views of accept for the USA government’s policy to take advantages.
All that nose scratching. My boy got that coke drip 😂
"Uncle Sam is strong and powerful" says Trump, "Uncle Sam fear n-" some immigrants walk in, "can we live here?" "AAAaaahh! National emergency, alert the military! There are brown people, I'm gonna piss myself!" Calmy explains Donald Trump, 45th president of The Mighty U.S.
Why is the only thing that rang true for me what he said about staying at home, watching porn and masturbate?
5:06 please at least, you don't get lost!
Feel like this guy talks in circles, never reaching any real point. Agree with the predestination idea tho, I definitely think about that a lot.
Still interesting to listen to.
It's a tapestry that he meanders around but the whole image is glorious.
Žižek is usually based, but god the comment sections on every one of his videos are insufferable.
How well did TTIP represent green-left values? The day after Brexit it went in a drawer.
I thought he was gonna talk about EU, then he started rambling about gender and feminism and now im lost.
"what have the Romans ever done for us?"
Comparing Rome to the EU is a stretch
At least the Brits can't sabotage the EU anymore now. xD
Ambedkar💙
He says so much without actually saying anything. It would help if he actually finished one point without going off on a tangent and then getting lost in his own words. Mumbo Jumbo.
My anti Eurocentric vibes comes from being “black” and Latino!
I'll tell you one joke that could be the typical that Zizek tells, although this one is to make fun of one of the things he says here.
The eternal European to the eternal African:
"OK. It is true. I slaved your great great great ... grandfather. I murdered in multiple genocides your great grandfather. I segregated and exploited your grandfather. I made a servant of your father, just paying peanuts. But, really, you should be thankful. you know why?"
"Why? says the African
"Only thanks to me you know now that all these things were wrong!"
So. Europeans really think Africans would never have noticed. Enlightenement, my God
I can only imagine how much coke this man snorted throughout his life
Can you really imagine it I mean that's ALOT of coke?
I would've loved to listen to debates of him, but I can't stand his slobbering, so no.
Keep sharing your dismay, don't make an effort to accept and overcome
@@FromThe3021 I will
stop projecting yourself and your inner circle onto others (you mainly disagree with). Zizek has never tried drugs and is vocally opposed to drugs. [Source: the guy himself, look it up]
PS: your favorite sophist is an addict, though. How sad.
nothing is more ithy than Žižek's nose and nothing is more tighter than Peterson`s suits.
How can you claim to be communist yet support the European Union?
Once you scrub your mind and intellect with some kind of cleansing soap and study the notion/concept of communism itself, come back to this video and rewatch it.
@@ZainKhan-sm8gr That came nowhere close to addressing my question. I tend to like Zizek, but I find his romanticisation of modern Europe to be a bit inconsistent with his claimed economic ideology.
If you think everything left of Attila the Hun is communism, as Chomsky characterises the view of Peterson, then you'll probably have a problem reconciling the two. If you can think of the word "social'" as in "not being a predator on the poor", then there may be a way to.
@@GwennDana I don't think that. He himself has before identified as a communist. That's why I said "claim to be communist".
I’ve watched several clips of him
and in some he says after being called a communist that he calls himself that to provoke. Perhaps that makes it a little more clear.
Slavoj do you hate Europe too?
Wrong. People don't want further integration of EU. Union should go back to economic union, not political super-country.
cant have economic union without legal union. cant have legal union without political union
This guy really had the balls to say "wrong" and then provide a one line explanation to a 13 minute speech by Zizek. lmao.
Why are talking on behalf of "people"? Speak for yourself.
Unfortunately, globalisation demands it. The economic system and the political system are one and the same as they both work for the same people and the same goals: capitalists and capitalism.
It seems he's fighting ghosts. The idea that it is a "we" and "them" and that "they" are evil is something that can be theorized, but in todays market no one really knows who's the bourgois and whos the proletarian. He also uses, as JBP says a slight of hand that in one hand celebrates Mao and with a small caviat - "i dont like him, but". One can use this logic towards slavery and all kinds of horrible ideas and motions. The problem with intellectuals is that they, most often, never suffer from the ideas they propose.
He cant stop sniffing ... I'm fed up ... he makes some points i agree with
My previous girlfriend when she smoke cannabis stopped taking out the hairs, may be work for zizek to stop the nose.
I doubt smoking cannabis will help him gather his thought when he speak in front of a bunch of people. Cannabis is also unhealthy, it also decrease ambition which will hamper his productivity.
No. The EU was good as a trade union and that´s it.
This why brexit felt bad even tho I am anti-EU, although I think he is wrong EU stand against everythink that made Europe great
Why does this guy keep touching his nose?
@6:20 - normally intelligent philosopher completely fails to grasp the idea of predestination and fate, and so on and so on.
I just managed to suck the tip of my dick
@@Rammbock Wow
EU is not Europe. One can be European and anti-EU.
I wonder if he knows Elon Musk business practices because I really think he doesn't know something like he's like the Jordan Peterson of the left
Boy this aged so bad after the war in Ukraine lol, how naive was he
is his nose getting redder over the course of his lifetime and should he go see a doctor?