You wouldnt download a philosophy education. You wouldnt download a car..

Not going to lie. The Fallout Karma system heavily impacted my moral code.

I had the unfortunate wisdom tooth pain stuff awhile back now. they went pretty bad, then I decided to go on a vacation I promised rather than seeking immediate medical attention. I thought I was smarter than I was and got antibiotics instead. no surprise when that didn't work. three weeks of camping later, and I either went insane or gained a new level of understanding. To call it a spiritual moment would be an understatement. If you have mouth pain, get it checked now. Heck, you should probably make a dentist appointment right now, anyway, just in case. I have been a lot of places and done a lot of not smart things, and an absessed tooth was the single worst pain I've ever felt hands down. Days of shuffling at a painstakingly slow pace while not sitting or laying or standing flat to keep the pain from flaring up and making my vision blur out. I had to go like that for three days without pain medication beyond ibuprofen. I was in the army, I drove truck, worked construction, multiple trades, shot a nail through two of my fingers at the same time. Every single thing I ever got hurt over was like absolutely nothing compared to this pain. I would not wish that on the worst fictional world eating evil being that you could think of. Take care of the teeth.

14:01 this is the same reason I gave up on computer stuff. I got comfortable modding games and then started looking for resources on how to do some of it myself and it was like trying to learn a lesson in another language. for beginners, 5+ years experience preferred.

Technofeudalism, a concept promoted by Yanis Varoufakis, seems to be an apt description of current trends.

Your podcast is saving my life. Sometimes I listen to your take on books before I read a book to prepare for the reading, and sometimes when a book is Greek to me your podcast makes everything make sense! Thank you🌸🙏🏼

I just discovered Bruno Latour, and I intend to learn as much as possible. Also, I scored 0-1 on that modernity quiz, I take pride in that.

Zizek isn't a philosopher, he is a dedicated film maker and honest about the demonic nature of humanity.

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My problem with postmodern philosophy is the vitriol its defended with. Modern philosophy, like Arendt, is that it acknowledges the flaws it has. What we have now, this so-called post modern "philosophy" is children crying into the void, demanding satasfaction from a grievance that they dont even know of.

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One lucky kid! Congrats!

The part on democratic socialism reminds me of the idea that the "real life" scenes in the matrix movies actually take place in the matrix, and the fight for "freedom" is all artificial. If you have a framework that takes advantage of human desire then its natural that the framework would evolve to include a compatible path for those who rebel against it.

I just started listening today and I was so excited to hear the metal cuts

Thank you for recording these for us. You talked slowly in early episodes ! :)

Holy fuckamoley. I am a longtime follower. Not more than 5 or 6 days ago I was thinking about you - trying to remember your name... "Philosophy now?... Philosophy Tube...??? Philosophize this??? Yes!!" I've been following zizek heavily lately - naturally conservative communist stuck out to me too. He seems to be weaving shit around everywhere, I f*ckin love it. I am so glad you've covered it. Super glad you are still making shit :-)

I loved the music.

You are very articulate and deliver these ideas in a very understandable and beautiful way. You don’t impose any extra meaning, which I find is very hard and valuable when sharing these ideas with other people. You are making a change somewhere in the world, through us, people listening any valuing the work you have been putting a very serious effort into. Kudos and appreciate all you do.

Hmmm. I wear Nike's because I actually feel the quality. I've tried other cheaper brands and they didn't work. Id understand, if it was a Gucci bag then yes. And also, honestly, I was expecting it to be related to media sensationalism and all these one hit smartphone cocaine bumps from a guy setting himself on fire to a woman having an orgasm at a concert hall. This French dude is meh. Its also bogus in a typical French obscurantist way. Zizek is a boutique philosopher. No backbone.

Congrats, nothing better than being a dad of a bouncing baby :) Great podcast as usual :)

Not overthinking it is probably important in some situations.

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I dont get why these episodes dosent have more views 😢❤

Shocking, that person who is emersed in philosophy and knowledge of this world has chosen to bring a innocent child in this Hell !

Stephen I was wondering what you thought of Zizek's take on the Foucauldian understanding that, where there is Power there is always resistance. Zizek thinks that this resistance can support or justify power (1). I was thinking of the example of eco friendly designed products, that really these products do nothing for the environment as they are still fundamentally industrially manufactured goods, that continue to reinforce the problem of consumerism. Zizek's call to action 'I'd prefer not to' to me cuts across so much of this contemporary habit of 'virtue signalling' - There's heaps of overlap between this perspective and Baudrillard's simulacra and simulation. Stay with me... In Australia there's a huge ethic or personal responsibility surrounding the issue of recycling, people act as if to be virtuous you need to fully engage with he separating of different plastics, and yet if you go and see how the waste is manged its often sent off shore where it is not recycled at all. What we are participating in then is a simulation of recycling, rather than a recycling program that having real world benefits. My point, finally, i would guess that Zizek would state that the only way through is to not recycle as recycling is participating in consumerism. Then i balance this with Camus and think that Camus may say even though its absurd to recycle without a clear outcome, none the less our role is to embrace the absurd nature of recycling, and act as if it is important anyway. What do you think Stephen? Should we recycle? 1, thedangerousmaybe.medium.com/i-would-prefer-not-to-%C5%BEi%C5%BEeks-bartleby-politics-12bd8d9de66a

Love the show. My husband has listened to almost every episode, now. I went to your site and looked at your merchandise and noticed you use Spring. Because of you, I am starting to use Spring. Do you use them as an affiliate? If so I want to make sure you receive the credit. I did click on them from your site. I hope that works. Thank you for all the hard work you put into your podcast/KZbin episodes.

I was hoping this episode would be about the philosophy of sex, and while I was disappointed, at least it opened up with a mattress ad.

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I hope that at some point Deleuze acknowledges Saussure as the originator of the whole 'identities are defined by relations of difference' idea. We have structural linguistics to thank for that notion. Looking forward to reading Deleuze. I'm still a virgin.

Up until this point, I had been struggling to understand a lot of Zizek's work. Thank you for making it so much more clear, it's just what I needed!!

Great episode, a very good in depth and concise description of Zizeks positions!

Hegel can make many people moody.

Didn't you mix up democratic socialist with social-democracy, or is Zizek using the term in that way? Because I always thought that democratic socialism was exactly the same as "normal" socialism but achieved through liberal democratic means instead of a revolution.

Z is the ultimate Spinx without a secret. Not worth your time, IMO.

Hi, long time follower here for more than 10 years. I've listened to all of your podcasts and some of them 2 or 3 times.😊 Congratulations to you and your wife for newborn.🎉 Please keep up the good work❤

Congrats on the new family member! Many of these thoughts sound strange and foreign to a native person of the americas mind. What we are taught is to strive to lead a single life, to have one face and one heart (ie not be two faced saying one thing with your mouth and having another thing in your heart), to create beautiful memories to be remembered by when we are no longer here. I desire to lead a full and complete life and the only way I know how to do that is by following my ancestors philosophy, which is that we are all like a seed that is flowering out, creating beautiful colors, scents, and memories. Why? Because we are not guaranteed anything after this life, so we might as well make this life enjoyable. Constantly desiring objects doesn't sound enjoyable, or healthy.

Thank you so much again and again. You make my life much better.

I know you've got more episodes planned. I think maybe the topic of what capitalism is turning to, or late stage capitalism and post-capitalism would be great to explore. Possibly Mark Fisher more culturally or Varoufakis's "Techno-feudalism" on the more economic vein?

Wondering how Rawls makes the zero slices of pizza for those who can't afford it bigger than the small but equal pieces that all people get under soc/com type of system.

Congrats on being a dad, buddy. I've been keeping up with you for years, started with you working in a factory or something (if I'm not wrong, as far as I can recall) and trying to find the wisest man that ever lived, and I think you found Plato first. (Again correct me if I'm wrong, you mentioned this somewhere from years) and now you're a father and episode 200 is coming soon. I'm happy for you and thanks.

Really clear and concise explanation. Great stuff! Looking forward to the next part. In regard to the discussion about the confusion of left vs right, I really appreciate the argument put forward by the political anthropologist youtube channel 'What is politics?' in his video 'What the Left-Right Political Spectrum is Really About' (quote below). “The fundamental division of politics is hierarchy on the right versus equality on the left. Hierarchy meaning ranked inequality: do we want an extreme political hierarchy where one person gets to make all the decisions like a monarch or a dictator on the right, or do we want extreme political equality like direct democracy on the left, or do we want something in between on a spectrum. Economic hierarchy: do we want one person who controls all of the resources, or do we want everyone to share all the resources equally, or something in between. Cultural hierarchies: do we want one ethnic group, one religion, one gender group, one absence of religion to have all of the rights and privileges and everyone else has nothing, or do we want everyone to have equal rights and privileges, or something between. And international hierarchies: do we want one nation to dominate all of the others, or do we want all nations to be equal, or something in between.”

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Thank you! This helps me a lot with my finals in Human rights.

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Congrats to you for becoming a father of a well educated son. Nontheless do I need unload some critisism to this episode. Though you always anticipate this critique in a funny yet incomplete way like: You might say: "the individual is sacred" or "how could he possibly say he's a communist?!" Yes, I feel these comments but I still don't get (I also listened to a lot of your other episodes) why there should be any higher value to what Zizek stands for. First of course: Terminology What always strikes me is how often some (more left leaning) people tend to directly compare capitalism to socialism and thereby seeing capitalism as a holistic system for rather than from humans and society. As if it was thought out and planned like a religion or at least like a tool to keep an unhealthy but stable relation between opressors and opressed. Sure this might be one outcome here and there coming from big corporations and (again) governments but the easy and pure principle of capitalism isn't that. It's just individual freedom + private ownership. Nothing more. Not talking of corporatism. And it can be applied in dictatorships as well as in democratic republics or even some kinds of communism. It's only these two principles first and foremost and the rest are different outcomes much more rooted in human bahaviors that we can easily see in all other forms of economic systems. So would abolishing capitalism really make anything better? Yes you can condemn the superficial motivations of people and their strive for status and sometimes poor reasoning. But still, when you talk to people from former soviet countries they will tell you the status game wasn't gone at all. People living there today are much more sensitive about 'who got some better pieces of meat' and why can someone afford a little extra. There were usually tricks and ways around the official way the system was supposed to work. Everybody knew. My point is, I can't see why the economic (system) part of a society that is always an outcome yet an condition to itself should have the biggest impact on the wellbeing of humans. Especially today I see so many more ways and failings (the pandemic politics for e.g.) that could occur to make things eather more miserable or better. My concern however is that all centralistic managment and states with a growing influence in the private decisions of its citizens is prone to do worse for the future. Long live the principle of subsidiarity! Also can we try to approach the idea of capitalism from a different angle? All multinational corporations aside, let's think of what simple humans did in the past way before empires emerged and how small groups without anonymity got to survive. They trade. Always stick together and try to support the group in exchange for protection. Yes the strongest male probably had some privileges but enequality is given by nature and was therefore accepted to a certain degree. Tyrants were sorted out by the group. Now bigger groups exceeding ca 120 individuals need common rules because our brains can't handle more private relations. That's why clans in the early days weren't more people than about 100. Becoming dependent of common rules makes things comlpicated not only in the past but also in corporations and of course politics which purpose is to lay out such rules. I think that under these circumstances the organisation of an anonymous society will always contain structures of opression and they can best be solved within the smallest containments. Giving me superficial desires is not opression! I'm just a little weak and unaware sometimes like everyone else. But like everyone else I need to be responsible for my actions as good as I can. This will never change in another economic system. Even without any freedom I still need to come up with ideas to survive or get the best out of my opression. At last I'd like to point out that we absolutely come close to an agreement about a probably good way to govern. But I'd rather call it a social democracy (including capitalism) instead of democratic socialism. There is a distinct difference, right? Wish you the best.

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Congratulations on the new arrival, and thank you so much for these podcasts. Love the way it is full of ideas and information in a very manageable way for your listeners.