Philosopher Slavoj Žižek on the re-election of Donald Trump & his fears for Western values

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  • Slavoj Žižek speaks to Oxford Union President Ebrahim Osman-Mowafy about atheism, why Trump was elected again, what the Democrats got wrong after the 2016 election and his issues with BRICS nations.
    Mr Žižek is a Slovenian Marxist philosopher, cultural theorist and writer. He is the International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London. His work is mainly focussed on continental philosophy and political theory.
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  • @MR-rn3jl
    @MR-rn3jl 2 місяці тому +2399

    Haven't watched a Žižek talk in like 6+ years, literally the first words out his mouth "My God I want to be like Hitler", classic

    • @nah8845
      @nah8845 2 місяці тому +71

      He's the best. 😆

    • @HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings
      @HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings 2 місяці тому +5

      Mind Begs the Question:
      ▪︎D3ath to Jews chants - Genocidal
      ▪︎D3ath to Arabs chants - Acceptable?

    • @martiendejong8857
      @martiendejong8857 2 місяці тому +7

      lol I went to the comments before watching. thank you for making me laugh

    • @HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings
      @HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings 2 місяці тому

      Mind Begs the Question:
      ▪︎D3ath to Jews chants - Genocidal
      ▪︎D3ath to Arabs chants - Acceptable?

    • @Sas1256x
      @Sas1256x 2 місяці тому +9

      If Trump made a comment like that it would be front page news & the media would be taking it as a literal statement not a joke

  • @BradWelton96
    @BradWelton96 2 місяці тому +775

    Zizek is the only human that can start a conversation with: "I want to be like Hitler" and no one takes him seriously.

    • @dr17719
      @dr17719 2 місяці тому +22

      Donald Trump could probably say it.

    • @kompassorpigo7600
      @kompassorpigo7600 2 місяці тому

      ​@@dr17719 the difference is he'd be serious about it.

    • @flux1940
      @flux1940 2 місяці тому +4

      you mean everyone takes him seriously

    • @literallyjustgrass
      @literallyjustgrass 2 місяці тому +7

      "we take him seriously, not literally" 🤣

    • @Nick-xx9br
      @Nick-xx9br Місяць тому +2

      Of course we know he means it seriously. We also know the context in which it makes sense, will follow.

  • @TrashBoxer284
    @TrashBoxer284 2 місяці тому +811

    "Are you kidding!? I am totally horrified, and so on." that is now my absolute favorite Zizek quote ever. I will say that last part, if I am here at the end of things.

    • @thadtuiol1717
      @thadtuiol1717 2 місяці тому +2

      That might be coming sooner than you think...

    • @SamWilkinsonn
      @SamWilkinsonn 2 місяці тому +9

      "Are you -kidding- crazy!?..." 9:59

    • @joeyj6808
      @joeyj6808 2 місяці тому +3

      Well, we are definitely at the end of things, so go wild.

    • @LCdic09
      @LCdic09 2 місяці тому +8

      We are all dying and so on

  • @sayhellojordan2671
    @sayhellojordan2671 2 місяці тому +422

    "Let me conclude with something horrible." Classic Zizek wrap-up

  • @kylebowles9820
    @kylebowles9820 2 місяці тому +253

    Zizek and Bernie having a conversation is all I ever wanted

    • @jamiejade888
      @jamiejade888 Місяць тому +20

      I would literally call out of work and make popcorn lol

    • @Sektion9
      @Sektion9 Місяць тому +7

      @@jamiejade888 Same, it would be bigger than the world cup.

    • @macdietz
      @macdietz Місяць тому

      Lmfao
      Oh, seriously?

    • @stefaniadiaconu4999
      @stefaniadiaconu4999 Місяць тому +1

      This one is an edit, but it is truly a piece of art: ua-cam.com/video/6wAkOPk7-vA/v-deo.htmlsi=LPpiQxcSv6L1Hl3U

  • @BookFreakyTube
    @BookFreakyTube 2 місяці тому +547

    "I don't want to live in a society where to be for gay rights means to be an imperialist" GIRL

    • @AudioPervert1
      @AudioPervert1 2 місяці тому +27

      the case of Slavoj Žiźek, reknowned cultural theorist and public intellectual. His bizarre and often meaningless propositions aside, he mirrors the same euro-centric chauvinism of Samuel Huntington, viz a viz a ‘clash of civilizations’ when he declared that “it is a simple fact that most of the refugees come from a culture that is incompatible and hostile with Western European notions of human rights.” Torchbearer of the European bourgeois cultural apparatus, all be it Slavoj is “Discursive Sausage for the Uneducated” (Gabriel Rockhill). Of all the ‘Hegelian Hogwash’ that Žiźek has come to symbolize, he can never utter a word about the CIA, about Samuel Huntington’s long involvement with the US Govt in framing globalist imperial policies. The disasters of which, are visible from Iran to Nicaragua to Indonesia. For this reason, Žiźek is an outstanding example of devotion to imperialism and the current world order.

    • @isakismail5421
      @isakismail5421 2 місяці тому

      ​@@AudioPervert1Dude, yeah America fucked up sometimes. But if you look at the current world what kind of system do you want to live in?
      I would absolutely want to live in a liberal western democracy. We are not perfect but good damm ill take us any day over Iran, Russia, China, North Korea. They seem to be way more fucked than any injustice you can find in the western liberal democracy.

    • @MD-lf3gt
      @MD-lf3gt 2 місяці тому +61

      @@AudioPervert1And which order do you prefer? Putin’s or Xi’s?

    • @MattHudsonAtx
      @MattHudsonAtx 2 місяці тому +1

      He said what he said

    • @MD-lf3gt
      @MD-lf3gt 2 місяці тому +1

      @ And that’s what he said

  • @D0praise
    @D0praise 2 місяці тому +248

    So many here missing the point. He wasn’t saying he wanted to be like Hitler IRL, rather Charlie Chaplin’s movie version of him

    • @joko09010
      @joko09010 2 місяці тому +20

      Right. Where he can control the crowd by just raising and lowering his arm. 👏🏻🤐👏🏻🤐👏🏻

    • @szimultanologus
      @szimultanologus 2 місяці тому +17

      he can also say Kant multiple times without consequences

    • @NomedN
      @NomedN Місяць тому +11

      Quite sure you are missing the point. While he softer the message moving to Chaplin he is aware what he is doing and loves shock value of starting with dictstor reference.

  • @potrahead
    @potrahead 2 місяці тому +301

    MI6-Žižek is like Jazz.
    You listen to it while reworking your CV.

    • @p.i.6373
      @p.i.6373 2 місяці тому +9

      Doing some models for my job, instead of music I listen Zizek 😂😂

    • @JapanDriver
      @JapanDriver 2 місяці тому +15

      Are you aware that there are literally people making $$$ putting Zizek to beats - jazz included?

    • @potrahead
      @potrahead 2 місяці тому

      @@JapanDriver Are you aware that MI6-Peterson and MI6-Zizek literally proof Hitler with Joachim Bruhns thesis of the Spiegelspiel?

    • @mrypXnlDKr
      @mrypXnlDKr 2 місяці тому +5

      I was literally reworking my CV...how tf ?!

    • @potrahead
      @potrahead 2 місяці тому

      @@mrypXnlDKr Siemens will give me da human rights job, bc I spread MI6 Lügenpropaganda!

  • @nicobucefalusdeath
    @nicobucefalusdeath 2 місяці тому +146

    Finally, Zizek is getting the space and diffusion he deserves. Total love and respect for his work, best greetings from Argentina. We miss you here.

  • @ooopaulpeterooo
    @ooopaulpeterooo 2 місяці тому +219

    does oxford not have audio engeneers

    • @Lacey13-i3b
      @Lacey13-i3b Місяць тому +2

      Right? It is pitiful.

    • @Luke-zv6bb
      @Luke-zv6bb 20 днів тому +1

      Are u an audio engineer?

    • @tur0k-t9n
      @tur0k-t9n 18 днів тому

      Audio engineers are man made

    • @BonnsFinest
      @BonnsFinest 17 днів тому +1

      God damn it u are so right

    • @BonnsFinest
      @BonnsFinest 17 днів тому +3

      ​@@Luke-zv6bbno deeper engineering knowledge needed for Set Up some mics ans Monitors in a room for a discussion. IT would even Work right without Measurement of acoustics

  • @NVRBENSHOT
    @NVRBENSHOT 2 місяці тому +277

    13:13 “if you take power 2 years of gulag for this mistake”

    • @mmmelati
      @mmmelati 2 місяці тому +5

      LMAO.

    • @ChannelMath
      @ChannelMath 2 місяці тому

      If OU takes power?? They typically do, but by then Zizek will be unpunishable

  • @RunRonaldRun
    @RunRonaldRun 2 місяці тому +51

    The part about the thrill/horror of the Handmaid’s Tale and Trump is so spot on

  • @davidjairala69
    @davidjairala69 2 місяці тому +178

    Finally, the stable, steady, measured voice we need to keep us grounded in these difficult times

    • @Nyconbr
      @Nyconbr 2 місяці тому +4

      If you think his voice makes you feel grounded you're lost honestly

    • @itown4ever
      @itown4ever 2 місяці тому +1

      What is difficult about our times specifically?

    • @2894031
      @2894031 Місяць тому

      Itown you do not seem to follow any news, do you? Try googling „Doomsday Clock“ to get oriented regarding how much time elapsed since you went to sleep 🙄

    • @oomenacka
      @oomenacka Місяць тому +1

      This but unironically

    • @mm-hq4qh
      @mm-hq4qh Місяць тому

      lol

  • @Rizkay2050
    @Rizkay2050 2 місяці тому +51

    "Please attack me more.." and goes onto talk for an hour! Classic Zizek ❤

  • @leosimmons5060
    @leosimmons5060 2 місяці тому +150

    This man is an absolute gem for humanity.

    • @Cheesesteakfreak
      @Cheesesteakfreak 2 місяці тому

      He rode the wave of "anti woke" and shares responsibility for Trump's election. He's simply playing hits people want to hear.

    • @geog26
      @geog26 Місяць тому

      fearmongerer ,god forbit anybody says something good about trump lmfao

    • @ComedyMatrixTV
      @ComedyMatrixTV Місяць тому

      Marxists are on the "opposite end" of humanity, actually.

    • @lancelot5192
      @lancelot5192 Місяць тому

      ​@@geog26 good thing he's atheist then

    • @caili999
      @caili999 19 днів тому

      An absolute joke you mean. Him and all you lefties

  • @CaptainSamuelVimesBootsTheory
    @CaptainSamuelVimesBootsTheory 2 місяці тому +241

    Those shadows bruh its like im watching a noir

    • @tau9632
      @tau9632 2 місяці тому +3

      Awesome, right? :D

    • @kryvonastya
      @kryvonastya Місяць тому +5

      Zizek's shadow kinda looks like Lynch

    • @RefinedOnion
      @RefinedOnion 22 дні тому

      @@kryvonastya He's dead

  • @marketads1
    @marketads1 28 днів тому +7

    I’m like Žižek. I think globally first. Not in politics, but to analyze everything. Starting with universality and then dialing in to the more specific will give the best answer rather than looking at the specific and trying to come to a conclusion.

  • @seigneurdemerde1935
    @seigneurdemerde1935 2 місяці тому +243

    All the Oxford “excellence” and “talent” in that room and this is the audio and video quality that results, lmao

    • @paulrosa6173
      @paulrosa6173 2 місяці тому +14

      He also has an extremely thick accent. They should also hang some tapestries or curtains in the room to cut the reverberation. That room has a very pronounced echo. I'll bet that room is bare walls and a hard wood or plaster ceiling. The people and their cloths will do some of that damping or absorption of sound waves but perhaps the audience isn't very large and too much of the seating is vacant? Even the leather covering you can see on the bench behind him (and in the rest of the room maybe)- is more erverberant than fabric upholstery.
      Funny name - lord of shit. Why such a know opinion of yourself?. How about GrafvonSheis? But it sounds so much prettier in French.

    • @champagnebulge1
      @champagnebulge1 2 місяці тому +13

      Well, they're not excellent audio and video technicians. That's a prole job, albeit kind of a cool one.

    • @563spaceman
      @563spaceman 2 місяці тому +7

      leftist audio

    • @Anon54387
      @Anon54387 2 місяці тому +19

      @@champagnebulge1 How very classist/elitist of you. This is much like the attitude that people that graduate from the big colleges have about their knowledge being so "superior" to that of the guy who owns the small town pizza parlor, but the pizza parlor guy understands thing about business that the guy who graduated from the Harvard Business School does not.

    • @mwrkhan
      @mwrkhan 2 місяці тому +3

      @@Anon54387 I bet you wish you were able to graduate from Harvard business school.

  • @leratomotaungauditor
    @leratomotaungauditor 2 місяці тому +39

    Wow, just wow, Because having such a inclination to talk and deliberate on burning issues, is Rare

    • @anthonyhulse1248
      @anthonyhulse1248 2 місяці тому +3

      He’s a bit of a dumpster fire as philosophers go.

    • @notyhehehe
      @notyhehehe 2 місяці тому +8

      @@anthonyhulse1248 he's riffing on current affairs. If you want to read one of his philosophy texts then you should go do so and then write to him your criticisms. I would love to read his reply in his next book.

    • @ChannelMath
      @ChannelMath 2 місяці тому +1

      @@anthonyhulse1248 he has basically said as much

  • @hardworker5263
    @hardworker5263 2 місяці тому +48

    11:07
    Voting for Trump:
    “We have seen the enemy and he is us”

    • @harryseaton7444
      @harryseaton7444 17 днів тому

      Agreed. I dont like this whole part about liberals being in the way of 'true political goals'. He said it himself, hes aware, hes making the miatake the socialiats made with hitler.

  • @AlamoOriginal
    @AlamoOriginal 2 місяці тому +16

    it sliced my heart that i just realized he is getting old, we need younger people who are Zizekian in thoughts and actions to continue his legacy, Diogenes has his students carry his messages. We need it now more than ever

    • @makisxatzimixas2372
      @makisxatzimixas2372 Місяць тому +6

      Read this in Zizek's voice: " A man who feels like he is sorry for his idols getting older is a paradox. It is himself who is getting older that makes him sad and so on, but he has just learned to use pitty as an excuse to not reflect on himself".

    • @AlamoOriginal
      @AlamoOriginal Місяць тому +1

      @@makisxatzimixas2372 whose quote is that attributed to and why is it used as a jab for no reason? im literally a young 23 years old whose main subject for thesis is literally Zizek, its a personal feeling i expressed for any idol or musicians or entertainers i like, getting old and maybe cease doing their thing. Thats a heartless quote mind you

    • @beeeps
      @beeeps Місяць тому

      @@AlamoOriginal Never heard the adjective Zizekian, what are some of the ideas or values Zizekians subscribe to?

    • @AlamoOriginal
      @AlamoOriginal Місяць тому +1

      @@makisxatzimixas2372 whose quote is that attributed to and why is it used as a jab to me for no reason? im literally a young 23 years old whose main subject for thesis is literally Zizek, its a personal feeling i expressed for any idol or musicians or entertainers i like, getting old and maybe cease doing their thing. Thats a heartless quote

    • @AlamoOriginal
      @AlamoOriginal Місяць тому +1

      @@beeeps its just a thing people say to categorize people who follow Zizeks views, it doesnt need to be values just his ideas, probably the basic one is if they like his messaging in the movie Perverts Guide to Ideology and other marxist critiques of society. Not much else to it, hes a very vague individual who himself hates followers

  • @liegon
    @liegon 2 місяці тому +91

    What he says about Christian Atheism is really quite interesting. It seems like he talks about Christian faith like a self-fullfilling prophecy: Because there is a community of believers who believe in some form of Christianity, the promise of belief, like community and caring for each other, becomes a reality and is perhaps even reinforced, and if I understand it correctly, Žižek even says that the gospel acknowledges this fact on a meta-level. The question for me is then: Does it still work if you practice Christian faith while believing/knowing it is a self-fullfilling prophecy, or is the 'belief' required? I wondered about this often. As a Christian myself, I have had spiritual experiences, but I know from a philosophical perspective, that these are not exclusive to Christianity and happpen in many cultures. So it would make sense to look at the Trinity as more like a philosophical concept, with the One God pointing to universality.
    Maybe it is possible to 'believe' as well as question the reality of belief.

    • @paulgiurlanda9176
      @paulgiurlanda9176 2 місяці тому +8

      I've listened to him for a while, but I don't see how total immanence can work. Another word for transcendence is hope. Without transcendence (some kind of "God" not a Man in the Sky, but maybe Aquinas's "Being itself" or something unnameable like John of the Cross's 'nada, nada, nada")) we are still stuck in history, which is never ending carnage.

    • @DGE123
      @DGE123 2 місяці тому

      The history or religion is a history of carnage. Belief in religion and its attendant sociological symbols systems is merely the weakness of the human mind projected onto history. Humans are animals, they are afraid of their own death. religion makes them feel 'safe'. To maintain that feeling or state of safety they are not only willing to suspend the higher functions of their evolved consciousness but also to murder. The killing of another human is the primary progenitive act of culture, this is the secret moment 99% of humans hide from and avert their eyes.

    • @askittenlove13
      @askittenlove13 2 місяці тому +2

      It’s alchemical

    • @radiantmarshmallow2527
      @radiantmarshmallow2527 2 місяці тому +7

      I feel that Pascal's Wager says that true, intrinsic belief is not necessary, that you'll be fine so long as you pretend you believe in God because it's better to place a bet on God's existence than to do so on God's non-existence. Which seems counterintuitive to me. If God is real and you place a "bet" on God being real, which means you don't have actual faith, then if God were real, they would certainly call your bluff, now wouldn't they.

    • @liegon
      @liegon 2 місяці тому +1

      @radiantmarshmallow2527 Sure they would, but maybe they even 'want' to question or for you to figure out what is actually there.

  • @kennethmarshall306
    @kennethmarshall306 2 місяці тому +58

    Stalin was schooled at a seminary. So there’s no surprise that he used theological analogy

    • @samorybalde6515
      @samorybalde6515 2 місяці тому

      Yea, he was about to become a priest of the Georgian church. Then proceeded to rob banks, went to prison and the rest is history

    • @Alfredodamerica
      @Alfredodamerica 2 місяці тому

      Definitely a man of faith....killed around 20 million

    • @randomchannel-px6ho
      @randomchannel-px6ho 2 місяці тому +7

      The Bolesheviks more than anyone understood religion and 'God Building' - just look at the Orthodox Church today!

    • @aurelianobuendia5360
      @aurelianobuendia5360 2 місяці тому

      There is very small difference between communists and religious ppl. Both are brainwashed.

  • @antonellaquaglia7649
    @antonellaquaglia7649 2 дні тому +1

    Mr Zizek, Thank you. It would be so great if you would have your own Podcast on for example, topics like "what is Materialism", what was Hegel talking about, Kant and so on. It would be awesome (mostly for all of us without philosophical background).Greetings!

  • @ardamertsehan6424
    @ardamertsehan6424 2 місяці тому +204

    I am a simple man. If I see Žižek, I click.

    • @jonirischx8925
      @jonirischx8925 2 місяці тому +5

      A simple man alright. Might want to sometimes critically think of the gibberish he's spouting too. Just saying...

    • @finnagain236
      @finnagain236 2 місяці тому

      Two Bots arguing.

    • @jonirischx8925
      @jonirischx8925 2 місяці тому

      @@finnagain236 🤖

    • @marcelofernandez743
      @marcelofernandez743 2 місяці тому

      Monkey with keyboard! Lets carry on! Zizek speaks english like a monkey so it makes sense!

    • @qodaeus
      @qodaeus 2 місяці тому +1

      @@jonirischx8925 Why are you presupposing that this simple man is not critically thinking?

  • @eeeddeeed4783
    @eeeddeeed4783 2 місяці тому +6

    Always a pleasure to see Žižek

  • @Eyeonha
    @Eyeonha 2 місяці тому +84

    I don't think the moderator was getting any of Slavoj's jokes😆

    • @GreenTeaViewer
      @GreenTeaViewer 2 місяці тому +19

      his focus was on stabilising his blood sugar

    • @themarquis336
      @themarquis336 Місяць тому +4

      Completely incompetent and charmless

    • @NovemberTheHacker
      @NovemberTheHacker Місяць тому

      @@GreenTeaViewer not very leftist of you

    • @GreenTeaViewer
      @GreenTeaViewer Місяць тому

      @@NovemberTheHacker have to keep an eye on them

    • @GreenTeaViewer
      @GreenTeaViewer Місяць тому

      @@NovemberTheHacker have to keep an eye on them

  • @dellyish
    @dellyish 2 місяці тому +47

    "I'm totally horrified, and so on..." 😂

  • @nah8845
    @nah8845 2 місяці тому +14

    Merci ! I was waiting for this.

  • @asorlokirunarsson9864
    @asorlokirunarsson9864 2 місяці тому +12

    One of the great thinkers of our time

    • @ghoul_on_a_hill
      @ghoul_on_a_hill Місяць тому

      Why?

    • @cragjones1799
      @cragjones1799 16 днів тому +1

      Hes a populizer. Nothing wrong with that but many much more accomplished philosophers and social critics who live in journals and the common folks dont read those. Zizek speaks to lay people. He likes to make obscurity seem profound, its not.

    • @ghoul_on_a_hill
      @ghoul_on_a_hill 16 днів тому

      @@cragjones1799 Very overrated indeed. But those so called socialists need their contemporary hero! Which philosopher would you recommend?

  • @helpanimals-
    @helpanimals- 2 місяці тому +5

    Thanks for having Zizek at Oxford. He needs to speak more to the youth. Where is the audience questions video??

  • @ninja3212
    @ninja3212 2 місяці тому +85

    > Begins talk
    > Immediately asks to be treated like Hitler was
    What a man.

    • @ericbenjamin2908
      @ericbenjamin2908 2 місяці тому +17

      He was referring to Chaplin's "Hitler" that could kill applause with a hand gesture. It was kind of a joke.

    • @AverageAustinite
      @AverageAustinite 2 місяці тому +3

      @@ericbenjamin2908yes we all watched the video. @ninja3212 was making a joke himself.

    • @flibflob2785
      @flibflob2785 2 місяці тому

      And he's pulling that shit in oxford university

  • @5kids1goldfish
    @5kids1goldfish 2 місяці тому +57

    ❤ I'm very struck by the commentary that liberal democracy which focuses on getting reelected every 2-4 years is entirely unable to meet the challenges of our present urgent times. I really appreciated the insight of the Chinese person who pointed out that long term plans required a government system without that rapid turnover, which instead gave longer term stability at the level of government. It has been a problem in the USA for a number of years that our citizens are not educated enough (or are victims of outright false messaging) to be able to vote in a way that can be considered truly democratic. The votes of deluded people cannot count as "democratic." And Americans do not have reliable access to truth from news sources, no matter where we turn.

    • @joris.elfrances
      @joris.elfrances 2 місяці тому +8

      Sadly that situation went global, Europe is facing the same issues on a daily basis now... Smh

    • @dornishred6033
      @dornishred6033 2 місяці тому

      I’m perfectly happy and satisfied with government not being able to carry out long term plans.
      You are not a liberal at all in the classic sense of the word. You are an authoritarian, a statist.
      🤮
      No thanks.

    • @pegapage9603
      @pegapage9603 2 місяці тому +18

      Americans do have access. More than anyone else. English is EVERYWHERE! You can read different online newspapers from different countries. Watch different news programs, try to see different points of view. You just have to be interested. And there are a lot of journalists out there that do their work and tell things as they are. It's way too easy to say, they all lie. That's just a very lazy excuse.

    • @5kids1goldfish
      @5kids1goldfish 2 місяці тому +11

      Well, pegapage96, to realize that our nation is just full of lazy people who refuse to research the many good news sources from other countries only gives a strange "comfort." I think first of our senior citizens, as they navigate critical health conditions (like my elderly mother and others I've taken care of) they are supposed to recognize that all means by which they previously stayed informed are too corrupted-- so the time is nigh to sleuth out decent news sources from foreign entities through high tech computer-based research. But they are "lazy." And our masses of young people who have been surviving an upbringing which has stopped short of developing their metacognitive skills, while at the same time they are faced with unaffordable costs of living-- again, are we sure their "laziness" is the object barring access to understanding? I presently work in a public city school where most of the young people's parents do not have a room in a basement for them to live in. The moral judgement of apparently universal laziness afflicting Americans seems to suggest we deserve whatever s#its#ow unfolds next...

    • @JohnM-du8nv
      @JohnM-du8nv 2 місяці тому

      The Chinese dignitary, a beneficiary of his unelected ‘longterm stable government’ would of course pick out the one benefit of it: long term planning. But even that is illusory. Such a long term stable government, even in a democracy, ends in nepotism, cronyism, complacency and corruption but at least within democracy it will be voted out when it fails to deliver.
      Zizek coyly hints at the need for “limited” democracy - unbelievable.
      Just how educated do you think people need to be to deserve the vote? If has been the priority of every dictator to control education and also to censor news sources on pretence of protecting his people from lies. As Churchill put it ‘ Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others’

  • @wirplit
    @wirplit 2 місяці тому +45

    His original answer was the most fascinating part. I wish it had gone on...

    • @zacharyb5701
      @zacharyb5701 2 місяці тому +10

      So, there's a Philosopher named Peter Rollins, his entire career is basically about unpacking that exact thing: what it means for "God" to die, and how we have not fully reckoned with the death of "god" in the modern age, etc. Pete and his ideas are packaged in a very accessible way.
      And don't worry, he's not some religious nut.

  • @Delosaguas
    @Delosaguas 2 місяці тому +24

    Why did the Interviewer interrupt him at minute 10. I was really invested in the topic.
    I mean, at least let him try to wrap it up

  • @dbertalan
    @dbertalan 2 місяці тому +16

    9:07 "you can never use duty as an excuse to do your duty"

  • @Patrick-jj5nh
    @Patrick-jj5nh 2 місяці тому +42

    The original inventor of 'the weave'.

  • @PieterJanVB
    @PieterJanVB 2 місяці тому +40

    He talkes too much and so on and so on, …but he’s an analytical genius. I like the 6 episodes Steven West did about him on his show “philosophize this!”. Highly recommended ❤

    • @DadiszFekete
      @DadiszFekete 2 місяці тому +8

      You are the first person I see who mentions that podcast. I always felt so isolated. 😢

    • @PieterJanVB
      @PieterJanVB 2 місяці тому +2

      @ its my favorite show! I once made out with a beautiful woman and she found it very attractive that I was into that show. She was a big fan. 😂

    • @Semiotichazey
      @Semiotichazey 2 місяці тому

      A philosopher who talks too much? Now I've heard everything!
      In all seriousness, I could listen to him all day.

    • @PieterJanVB
      @PieterJanVB 2 місяці тому +1

      @ me too man. But I’ll explain the joke: he has a lot of tics and other signs of neuroticism. He touches his nose every two sentences. When he gives an example he almost always finishes with “and so on and so on” to illustrate that there are more examples. He also says in every interview: “sorry, I talk too much!”

    • @Semiotichazey
      @Semiotichazey 2 місяці тому +1

      @@PieterJanVB lol I don't know how I missed that 🤦

  • @machoward6443
    @machoward6443 2 місяці тому +5

    I love his sense of humour. Priceless!

  • @DrunkenerWitcher
    @DrunkenerWitcher 2 місяці тому +85

    Best modern philosopher I know

    • @potrahead
      @potrahead 2 місяці тому +11

      MI6-Philosopher.

    • @9000ck
      @9000ck 2 місяці тому +4

      Byung-Chul Han gives him a run for the money.

    • @potrahead
      @potrahead 2 місяці тому +1

      @@9000ck :-D

    • @lf6190
      @lf6190 2 місяці тому

      @@potrahead What?? pics or it didnt happen

    • @potrahead
      @potrahead 2 місяці тому

      @@lf6190 Laughing is not a sign of a good mood, bra..

  • @Treeboar8
    @Treeboar8 Місяць тому +5

    Free will, not because it's good, but because it's necessary to negate evil.
    Evil, not because it's necessary, but because it's possible.

  • @akbar-nr4kc
    @akbar-nr4kc 2 місяці тому +8

    lots of love for great zizek from pakistan

  • @StreamCreamSupreme
    @StreamCreamSupreme 2 місяці тому +2

    Absolutely brilliant. Cant understand a single work, but brilliant.

  • @samuellist1844
    @samuellist1844 17 днів тому +1

    First time I saw Zizek is his contributions to “Terror, Robespierre and the French Revolution.” I don’t have a lot of agreement with him but I do enjoy listening to his point of view and admire his convictions.

  • @torquemaddertorquemadder2080
    @torquemaddertorquemadder2080 2 місяці тому +24

    Is there a Part Three for audience questions?

  • @whatabouttheearth
    @whatabouttheearth 2 місяці тому +7

    The audio is horrendous.
    They're using overhead mics seemingly, so it's picking up all the damn reverb of the room. They should use lapel mics fed directly into a mixer or DI box. You'd think Oxford would be smart enough to figure this out, it's really basic shit. They could even get wireless lapel mics like a lot of venues have.

  • @technologicalsociety
    @technologicalsociety 2 місяці тому +4

    I always find it sad that people talk about the man and hardly ever the ideas which he discusses. This right here is a big part of the problem he discusses in relation to Trump and how he finds success. It even applies to the majority of comments about this video!
    Though it be the name I've posted under for years, I never mention this book but I encourage everyone to read Jacque Ellul's The Technological Society. It continues to amaze me how insightful he was in explaining modern man's challenges in the face of technology but even more important is the mindset that people have. The mind that always seeks efficiency in every avenue of life and all else be damned. I think the video ends appropriately pointing towards this idea.

  • @adrienbeauduin6307
    @adrienbeauduin6307 2 місяці тому +16

    Started with a Hitler joke, ended with “filthy liberal”, Slavoj is a fucking legend

  • @ShangTsung69
    @ShangTsung69 2 місяці тому +11

    you have one of the best philosophers near you and these are the questions you can come up with LOL

    • @thadtuiol1717
      @thadtuiol1717 2 місяці тому +1

      Nah. Interviewer sux, guest sux, Oxford Union sux.

    • @ShangTsung69
      @ShangTsung69 2 місяці тому +11

      @@thadtuiol1717 you forgot the viewers as well, we sux

    • @danielhabiger7512
      @danielhabiger7512 2 місяці тому

      ​@@ShangTsung69also the comments suck

  • @holonaut
    @holonaut 19 днів тому +1

    Truly one of the thinkers of our time

    • @dantechersi6056
      @dantechersi6056 19 днів тому

      Vacine man stupid thinkers his mind is fake and delusive and darkness

  • @Spruehwuerstl
    @Spruehwuerstl 2 місяці тому +4

    Slavoj is the GOAT but please record the audio with a microphone and not a camera...

  • @rufatmammadov60
    @rufatmammadov60 2 місяці тому +2

    Interesting, engaging, insightful, and soul-enriching.

  • @MustDIEOracle
    @MustDIEOracle 6 днів тому

    "Are you a cretin" on 9:59 is Slavoj Žižek gold, that we all missed

  • @drbravinderreddy
    @drbravinderreddy 2 місяці тому +1

    Magnificent perspectives!!

  • @deaddontopen
    @deaddontopen 2 місяці тому

    Thank you for the upload

  • @ishizu92
    @ishizu92 2 місяці тому +13

    4:30 excellent understanding of holy ghost and Christs return, bravo

  • @paulrosa6173
    @paulrosa6173 2 місяці тому +31

    What Zizak is saying @19:40 about Ukraine's options are about the same as could be said for Gaza. Israel wants their land and property on the cheap. Either they try somehow to fight back and not leave or they will all be penniless refugees forced to accept the UN dole or the patience and kindness of neighboring states for their basic needs. If all the men in Gaza weren't Hamas before the invasion what choice would any have now as so many have seen their whole families blown away? It is not insane to think that the music festival attack wasn't just what many in Israel may have really wanted in their hearts all along. It's a handy excuse to proceed with expansionist plans that would be otherwise damned as blatantly expansionist without it. The Israelis never provide compensation to refugees. As the occupying power in the West Bank, they shamelessly cherry pick the best land and resources for their own needs and have the bare faced chutzpah to blame the losers for getting upset about it. The coast will be grabbed up by the Israelis who have no way to expand but out. Israelis have been eager for lebensraum for decades and the Gazans only stand in their way. Apparently the Israel's don't believe in eminent domain compensation except to themselves. And unlike the Palestinians never accept, unless forced to, the opinion of any courts higher then their own. There are decades of UN records that itemize the situation.
    Isn't it amazing how "god" can tell a believer what to do that really only reflects what they want to do anyway? Scripture can have a very self serving aspect. The Bible says everything but the kitchen sink and If they had them at the writing those would be mentioned too. What doesn't work to support necessity, but also ambition can often, if not always, be ignored or even edited. To be sure both sides do that. The scriptures always have a core of what could only be called motivational propaganda. They could also be accused of providing excuses for what might otherwise be called criminal behavior. We always tell "God" what to do or we would invent God to suit the situation. God is always a matter of interpretation. God tends to be dependant on living larynx. How else can one explain the plethora of sects and creeds in its name? And the speaker is essentially the artist painting God's portrait. That can be done beautifully or hideously depending on the artist.

    • @aoeu256
      @aoeu256 2 місяці тому

      I know that many Jews believe that God told them to genocide the Canaanites, and that they are God's chosen people and its in many parts of the bibble...

    • @rohankishibae4034
      @rohankishibae4034 2 місяці тому +1

      Brilliantly said, thank you

    • @lt16669
      @lt16669 2 місяці тому

      Hi go back to school and learn how to write or no one will take anything you say seriously

    • @lt16669
      @lt16669 2 місяці тому

      Then again, most people are decaying morons so maybe you have an audience..

  • @RPGould3
    @RPGould3 2 місяці тому +1

    Just one minute in but I am loving that they have all the Pálinka out and ready all over the table.

  • @andymadrid5626
    @andymadrid5626 2 місяці тому +2

    I remember when he emerged at college book stores during 1990s. He's always been concerned, IMHO, with Theme. Thematic. Illustrations and Deferral . But not about the thing-in-itself or structural questions. I'm probably 100% wrong.

  • @ValentinTzankov
    @ValentinTzankov 2 місяці тому +7

    Zizek and Ben Shapiro would be so much fun, but I doubt Ben has balls to face Zizek

  • @smajliiicka
    @smajliiicka 2 місяці тому +4

    Sláva Slavojovi! My favorite modern day philosopher

  • @yurigansmith
    @yurigansmith 2 дні тому

    Heiliges Gespenst! Heal Zizek!

  • @nolawnnate5934
    @nolawnnate5934 2 місяці тому +32

    Symbolic efficiency is a major tenet of right wing without a counter on the left. Think of how Maga, swastika, etc. so efficiently delivers an emotional reaction and suite of beliefs

    • @torquemaddertorquemadder2080
      @torquemaddertorquemadder2080 2 місяці тому +3

      _""Symbolic efficiency""_ I'm guessing you learned this phrase within the last three months. Am I correct?

    • @brian6096
      @brian6096 2 місяці тому +2

      nicely put

    • @thatguykalem
      @thatguykalem 2 місяці тому

      I think it’s because left liberals who grabbed the wheel of popular left movements long ago have spun off into absurdity the left habit of intellectualising and - more importantly - abstracting every issue. You can’t have any hope of appealing to people when you’re operating at a level of abstraction far beyond the level at which most people live their lives most of the time. What political program can you even devise, let alone explain, when in political terms you might as well be an alien from another planet?

    • @nolawnnate5934
      @nolawnnate5934 2 місяці тому +3

      @torquemaddertorquemadder2080 Lack of efficiency of the Left is part of the opening of the video, as a highlight and main point. The answer is no, but yes/no doesn't change anything does it?

    • @poggeraxolotl
      @poggeraxolotl 2 місяці тому +1

      @@torquemaddertorquemadder2080 whats wrong with it

  • @kapetan1824
    @kapetan1824 Місяць тому

    what a great guy ❤❤

  • @DigitalAshes
    @DigitalAshes 2 місяці тому +11

    that poor interviewer never stood a chance against the Žiž

  • @villalobosregina
    @villalobosregina 2 місяці тому +1

    His view of the Holy Ghost is so beautiful.

  • @ZachariahtheMessiah
    @ZachariahtheMessiah 2 місяці тому +2

    "I met a high-ranking (we are not friends)..."

  • @paulchampagne-hx9ob
    @paulchampagne-hx9ob 2 місяці тому +4

    People who grew up under named fascism or the soviet bloc have on these blinders that ignore the forrest for the trees, the whole western fascist bloc. Who is it that gets in the way of progress but the western fascist bloc. At a time when we need models fir degrowth it's impossible because of a predetory fascist bloc in decline.

    • @taylerpowell6155
      @taylerpowell6155 2 місяці тому +1

      what is "degrowth"?

    • @paulchampagne-hx9ob
      @paulchampagne-hx9ob 2 місяці тому

      @taylerpowell6155 it's a philosophy and framework that gives a means to construct the way forward. It means that all stages of a human life span are considered in order to understand why growth is the only viable system for the lucky thus far. Ultimately it draws from realities surrounding immigration for instance. It says that in reality the global population is unsustainable and with this philosophy you embrace lower birthrates if you're not xenophobic. It is the apex of political, social and economic thought.

  • @nikolazunic6482
    @nikolazunic6482 2 місяці тому +1

    I would love to hear what Žižek thinks of Joseph Atwill's "Cesar's Messiah."

  • @MichaelJones-ek3vx
    @MichaelJones-ek3vx 2 місяці тому +1

    This guy's great.

  • @andriikoshurko6551
    @andriikoshurko6551 2 місяці тому

    what a time to be alive

  • @delroku
    @delroku 2 місяці тому +2

    I want to be angry at zizek for relying so much on shock to get everyone's attention but it works so good i just can't

  • @elvital1742
    @elvital1742 2 місяці тому +2

    intelligent mind, restless soul

  • @bnwug
    @bnwug 2 місяці тому

    best opening ever

  • @makisxatzimixas2372
    @makisxatzimixas2372 Місяць тому +1

    29:40 "If Trump is caught lying, he is at least sincere". Zizek is just an observer of paradoxes.

  • @missalboogie
    @missalboogie 2 місяці тому +2

    Why is James Adomian so good at this?

  • @kathaarsis
    @kathaarsis 2 місяці тому +3

    arre bhai Zizek!if you were in India once again, I would have called you 'Vivek' hehehelol.. really good talk!

  • @katicaivankovic9998
    @katicaivankovic9998 Місяць тому +1

    Genius

  • @Hurkmaniacs
    @Hurkmaniacs 2 місяці тому +1

    What was the question again?

  • @chaschmerscholucasaege
    @chaschmerscholucasaege 2 місяці тому

    9:37 bis 11:35
    21:08 bis 23:44 -> Trump, LGBTQIA+ im Kontext Kolonialismus
    16:24 bis 17:43 -> Ideologie, Bohr

  • @TheNoblot
    @TheNoblot 2 місяці тому

    Wisdom is strength war is not Peace freedom is understanding knowledge. What you understand is Peace in a confused world.

  • @ShortVersion1
    @ShortVersion1 21 день тому

    What the world needs is a new AI voice for Slavoj

  • @pisicafairy
    @pisicafairy 2 місяці тому +2

    The production quality if this video is really bad compared to other Oxford videos I have watched

  • @AVozdaRazão-BR
    @AVozdaRazão-BR 2 місяці тому +5

    "I want to be like Hitler!" Slavoj Žižek
    Not a great quote to have on your resume! 😂😂😂

    • @ericbenjamin2908
      @ericbenjamin2908 2 місяці тому +5

      He was referring to Chaplin's "Great Dictator". A joke, right?

    • @mranderson3927
      @mranderson3927 2 місяці тому +3

      Didn't do much damage to Trump...

  • @moresoysauce5489
    @moresoysauce5489 2 місяці тому +1

    Zizek is so good 😂 dude is equally hilarious as he is profound

  • @e_ejjay8222
    @e_ejjay8222 2 місяці тому +5

    He becomes more articulate as he ages.

  • @SlavojZizekEspanol-libros
    @SlavojZizekEspanol-libros 2 місяці тому +21

    33 min is nothing 😭😭

  • @behrad9712
    @behrad9712 2 місяці тому

    He's amazing I love him 🙂👌🙏

  • @Hitee-id7qk
    @Hitee-id7qk Місяць тому +1

    "I am horrified and so on"

  • @LutherAllen-v8b
    @LutherAllen-v8b Місяць тому

    SLAVVY
    CML CLASSICAL MUSIC LEAGUE!

  • @hudsonlawrence
    @hudsonlawrence 2 місяці тому

    Power and freedom are oil and water.

  • @LetsGoforDabash
    @LetsGoforDabash 2 місяці тому

    Zizek ❤

  • @EmericPanyko
    @EmericPanyko 2 місяці тому +2

    ty for my thanksgiving gift

  • @smalle
    @smalle 14 днів тому

    Oxford couldn't pay somebody $25 an hour to run sound for this? Good lord at the feedback the ENTIRE time.

  • @FerdinandZebua
    @FerdinandZebua Місяць тому

    11:50 AOC needs to hear that Zizek called her Beautiful in this video, I think... (and also calls her a 'him' but that might just me mishearing Zizek's accent but hey whatever right? 😅😅)

  • @MarleneWalker-su8ku
    @MarleneWalker-su8ku 2 місяці тому +3

    Wow if I look at a painting close all I see is a stain , but if I look from further away I see the beautiful harmony. Never would have realised that for myself.

    • @Den.Vos.Reynaerde
      @Den.Vos.Reynaerde 2 місяці тому

      Yes, so true. Consider my mind blown.

    • @OpsReitia
      @OpsReitia 2 місяці тому +1

      Yes, but that's not the point. What he says is that Jesus represented the opposite. He did not go to the poor and miserable and told them "everything happens for a reason, it's part of God's plan, it will all make sense in the end, look at the bigger picture..." Jesus went and cured them, fed them, comforted them, accepted them, gave them dignity.... The message of Christ is not abstract faith in some sort of invisible ruling principle that takes care of everything. WE have to imitate Christ and therefore take charge in the real world. In that sense, Jesus focused on the material world, just like a atheist, he did not focus on abstract mysticism. Conversely many people who believe they have deprogrammed themselves from religion still think in terms of a universe somehow functioning as if ruled by some greater principle of harmony, beauty, etc (the idea of God, without calling it God, basically).

  • @oopsalljank
    @oopsalljank 2 місяці тому +2

    I'm totally horrified and so on

  • @jim76hall
    @jim76hall Місяць тому +1

    Zizek said that Hamas should be annihilated.

  • @marcellobarone358
    @marcellobarone358 Місяць тому

    Slavoj Zizek Is very interesting and funny at the same time

  • @TheCallofcombatarms
    @TheCallofcombatarms Місяць тому

    great