Slavoj Žižek: A Little Piece of the Real (Norm Macdonald vs Neil deGrasse Tyson)
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
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In this video I discuss Zizek's understanding of the subject as the "little piece of the Real" that both grounds and escapes the "correlational circle" of subjective experience. For Zizek, subjectivity is not an "extra layer" of spiritual reality on top of the material world, but is itself inscribed into the world of objects in the form of objet a.
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Love Norm. Love Zizek.
Very exciting to see Norm and Zizek battling their ideas
Even philosophers take an attitude towards life, which is often nothing, but an entrenched defensive mode, such as stoicism, skepticism and unhappy consciousness. In modern parlance; structuralism, de-constructive mania and existentialism.
But what are these attitudes concealing in such cunning philosophers ?
The individual has not taken responsibility for his/her own existence and has taken too little care of their own psyche. The individual is thus unable to master their own experience through the salvific healing of Christ that leads to metanosis and kenosis. The individual is trapped in the hell of his own unresolved emotional and psychological contradictions and conflicts. These attitudes are but defences from a personal and visceral emotional confrontation with one's own experience. In a materialistic mindset, one is banished from one's inner life without any transformation and salific healing of the wounded heart.
Trapped in the sarcophagus of one's own self: Hell.
Prayer for your own discovery .
Zizeks identification of the subject as the In-Itself is very similar to Schopenhauers In-itself being a reduction to the representation of the subject which is the also just the subject.
@@telosbound well the ‘in itself’ would be the will since the it transcends all of its representations which are also in a way an in itself because we have direct access to it too.
was thinking about this tweet the other day and how there might be a zizekian element to it & i'm glad to see i wasn't the only one! great video and great analysis of two of my favorite ppl generally; ur channel continues to bless
what is it that there might not be a zizekian element to it?
@@BenPfeiidk i think it's basically sublimely zizek - really just what he states in the vid; tyson forgetting the self-divided subject and making this bullshit claim
@Zng but Tyson is pretty outspoken on how he doesn't believe in the universe as a self, a cognisant being. So when he says "the universe doesn't care" he's clearly not claiming that "the universe is an arrogant prick" [joke], he is treating the universe as part of the Whole, i.e., the universe plus us, but more importantly it being something which works in total independence from all human creation (all the way down to Good and Evil) and in a scale ridiculously superior to thatbof human life, i.e., events take place in outerspace across a space and time far superior to all human estimated existance and also, that if humans were integral parts of some of these events, like star deaths, Life would [ironically, with the idea that they're part of the universe at hand] be dissipated in an instant.
Now I finally understand why your channel was recommended to me
Nice one 🙏
Have you delved into the work of Jacques Ellul? I'd like to hear your take on his analysis of this technological world we live in!
@@telosbound Very cool
Thomas Merton known as Fr Louis.
Murdered in Dec 1968, the same year as the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr and Robert Kennedy- which ended the passion of non-violemce to open up the gates of hell for the MIC.
I'm a Norm Macdonald fan. I remember part of his moral compass being to never showcase intellectual superiority in conversation, which favours him as a comedian, obviously, having to be a silly character. Neil is a scientist, so I believe there that the Gap doesn't really apply to what Neil was implying as the universe - ongoing astronomical bursts of energy and friction and chaos and creation... regardless of any conscious existence, let alone human cognizance and emotion.
Good video! Just got around to watching this one.
Good stuff
I'm respectful to Zizek and Lacan, but I think that it is BS.
great point
Norm was a pre-Socratic philosopher.
WE LOVE NORM 😄😆
Yeah that’s what I was gonna say
While what Norm said is correct, my reaction is “meh” because really he just sidestepped Neil’s actual point, which was that everything in the universe _other than man_ is indifferent to man’s suffering. Neil was obviously not making an argument that man is not part of the universe.
Your missing what Norm and Telos are saying. They are saying it's absurd for Tyson to call nature cold and detached when human subjects are nature. How could Tyson know if the universe is cold and detached when he and everything else, according to him, is cold and detached. There must be ONE THING, somewhere, which is NOT cold and detached for Neil to determine the universe is cold and detached. This is the eyeball which can't see itself.
@@jamescareyyatesIIISpot on.
What is this “universe other than man”?
Universe is only universe with man.
To take out of consideration any element of the universe, is (by definition) to no longer have a universe.
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Also, dogs. Don’t forget that dogs are not blind to sorrows and indifferent to pains.
@@jamescareyyatesIII and @LilDomontovich Oh, yes. Well, guys, I agree with you then: the Universe is a scholar and a gentleman…he’s a _murderer!_