Philosopher Slavoj Žižek on 'soft' fascism, AI & the effects of shamelessness in public life

[@0211brucetube]

12:50 "I'm approaching the end" - still has half the lecture to go! I love Zizek

[@spiritualauthority1568]

even at the beginning of something we are approaching the end LOL

[@Frankstomp]

Once you're at the halfway point you're closer to the end than the beginning, right? Pilots call it the point of no return.

[@fhinq2776]

Classic ZIZEK 😂

[@maximillianworrell2347]

Imagine his youtube algorithm

[@alexanderclaylavin]

Hegel, racist jokes, soviet vaporwave

[@aesop1451]

Zizek is the Bronze Age Pervert of the Left. When you first hear about him you think he might be an unironic Stalinist. When you go through all his statements throughout the years you learn that he's about as radical as Noam Chomsky. Deleuze and Guattari exposed Lacanian psychoanalysis over 50 years ago. Did you know Lacan supported De Gaulle during May '68? His work is super bougie. Lacan through Zizek is unintentionally responsible for BreadTubers making long video essays about the gender politics of "My Little Pony" or how working out will turn you into a far-right radical. This is "praxis" everybody. Hegel was a doofus too. Contradictions are resolved into a higher unity? That's authoritarian. No wonder Hegel thought the state was the march of God on the earth. He also thought the Second Reich's constitutional monarchy was the perfect blending of monarchy and democracy. We make fun of Fukuyama, but Hegel was his teacher.

[@YISENCHEN-eq9zp]

@@alexanderclaylavin And dirty jokes

[@asa-od9pu]

minecraft challenge videos

[@MichaelEnzoproperties]

​@@alexanderclaylavinare you a VAMPIRE?

[@hcrone]

"What makes me really sad today is the exploding…shamelessness. Things that in public space were impossible even 10 years ago you can say them publicly today.”

[@PeterisCaurs]

Like what?

[@coocoocoocoocoocoo]

@@PeterisCaurs "your body my choice" is one that is very recent and comes to mind

[@JHimminy]

the humorless left 😂 listen to zizek, he jokes about this kind of shit all the time, you pearl clutching church ladies.

[@Unknown-jt1jo]

It's probably largely the internet's fault. It has given everyone, including truly awful people, a global forum. We've become desensitized to reading awful things online.

[@arnoldmuller1703]

like what?

[@MrLawyerNomics]

I admire Zizek because he is authentic, genius and provocative

[@aghamom]

Dude's a philosopher through and through, the only thing that satisfies him is another question.

[@antispindr8613]

A case of: a little less questions, and a lot more solutions?

[@aesop1451]

He's better than CNN and MSNBC anchors, but he's not as radical as you think. I unironically think George Carlin was more radical then he is. He sounds like a prude talking about shamelessness. What happened in Gaza is the height of shamelessness. The government doesn't deserve our respect.

[@FrittenFritzgerald]

yet his whole premise is depraved.

[@FrittenFritzgerald]

overlooking the whole central banking cartell issue, not acknowledging, that our capitalism is per definition not capitalism and his beloved socialism was created as antithesis by the same people that installed our current model for enslavement... knowing or out of ignorance, hes a gatekeeper for the angloamerican common wealth slavemastercaste.

[@lucca2c]

never seem slavoj so well behaved and time efficient

[@stuffi999]

Yea, bro looks more healthy as well

[@gaypirate]

He's not coked out in this lecture

[@ItIsTimeToLearn]

Babe, wake up, new Zizek just dropped.

[@arhicluj2008]

Kendrick and Zizek in the same week, we're blessed

[@BenjaminABoyce]

Confused, bored, and looking for someone else's reaction to gauge your behavior?

[@ItIsTimeToLearn]

@@BenjaminABoyce no thank you!

[@BenjaminABoyce]

@@ItIsTimeToLearn whoops replied to the wrong comment!

[@jasperreichardt]

lol i really though about doing this hahaha

[@FishareFriendsNotFood972]

19:40 "It's better to have hypocrisy than this type of openness." Perfectly put, thank you

[@MrDpPd]

It's like... rationally being contradictive

[@DrunkenerWitcher]

It's false statement. He simply doesn't know how openness leads to more close and true authentic warmth between ppl. He afraids of himself. It's the only flaw in his philosophy, as I see.

[@HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings]

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

[@fushurxbabojamez]

@@HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings for once try to think of something else than Jews and Arabs is what Zizek would tell you.

[@Johnconno]

@@MrDpPd It's a deliberate tautology and so on and so on.

[@GixxerRider1991]

As an American, I looked at how the people and political leadership of South Korea handled the recent turmoil there and felt ashamed. Thousands turned out in the street to protest, some of the politicians themselves climbed fences to get into the parliament building and vote to restore normalcy. Articles of impeachment were introduced against their president the following day. I admire them. You would never see that kind of moral or political courage in America anymore. The average person believes in nothing, not ideals, or virtues, or even gods. Nothing is sacred, nothing is obscene. It was always fertile ground for someone like Trump. His ascendancy is America showing its true face to world.

[@ariaspeful]

Totally agree!

[@helpanimals-]

Well said. How far humanity has fallen

[@xueya2188]

Besides Jan 6th, which was the perfect example of what you advocate.

[@alejandrotellez2962]

​@xueya2188 except january 6th was on false claims that the election was stolen.

[@mjordan072]

@@helpanimals- Not humanity, but certainly America

[@orangewitheyes]

It's always a good day when we get new Žižek.

[@matthew_thefallen]

Praise be! 🙌

[@2wolodja]

Agatha Christie just enjoying her bathtime apple. Slavoj: "Rituals are only the appearances of meaning, therefore are meaningless, undeserving of psychoanalysis and only meaningful by counteracting the obvious chaotic meaninglessness of our lives."

[@fAEtusDeletus]

Imagine if she had opted out for a banana instead. 😅

[@themadladx5687]

it's kinda funny watching him go into bouts of deriving meaning when discussing explicitly meaningless things, maybe he's succumbing to his own desire to elaborate on things that are meaningless in themselves? If he was true in his belief that rituals are inherently meaningless, he would've chose silence instead.

[@AD-ub7ly]

@@themadladx5687woosh!!!

[@geranium44horse]

@@themadladx5687 i think practically, he chooses silence instead of endlessly elaborating, but in this speech it serves a purpose to a larger point.

[@CRManor]

Holy hell, turn the stage lighting down by 50%.

[@aidendon4127]

Or...OR...just get a proper exposure.

[@OnlyGrans69]

Spend more time listening & less time watching. The lighting isn't a big deal...

[@corymacd5867]

I love the topic of swear/curse words as a phenomenon. Samuel Delany and Robert Ashley have some great writings on this topic. I wish people could engage with their habitual beliefs in the same way they use curse words. Practically everyone uses curse words to express pain, fear, surprise, humor, excitement...they feel good, they feel like a simultaneous expression of physicality and mentality. I'm tempted to see them as sort of "incantations", these utterances that are empty of definitional meaning but filled with a sense of "pure meaning." Yet, with these borderline magical utterances, no one is every tempted to systemize them, for example: "F**k is good for diminishing pain when stubbing your toe"; "s**t us good releasing pent up stress"; "c**t is good for cursing bad drivers"; etc. There might be personal habits that could be organized to point to a sort of "system", but people don't do this. Yet people will systemize other beliefs to the degree of integrating them with their identity/self worth, and expect others to see them the same way. For example: "This crystal is good for relaxation" "this color is good for energy" "this star sign points to aggression"; etc. Having these beliefs/feelings isn't inherently bad thing, and they are typically part of larger social systems that utilize these systems for different modes of bonding/communication...but curse words perform this same social function, and they still 'work' without systematic rigor and dogmatic adherence. TLDR: curse words are neat

[@corymacd5867]

"Who could speak, if every word had meaning?...Listen. Right beneath the brain there is thing we call the throat, and you can teach it to do anything...One of the things is what we call vibration. Now, vibration feels good you know. And, do you know why? It's because in that most precious part of us, the brain, we are all connected...to protect those connections...we have to talk to slow things down...And, we have learned that we can, whoa, modulate those connections by differing the sounds the throat makes....And, the parts of the modulation, without a better word than "parts," are what we call "words." In other words, the words are ours only, or ours alone. And, that's why we have to keep on talking. And, that's why listening is so unimportant. And, we don't need the words between us, only the connections, which are modulated by the words. Got it? Now, you can see that this gets complicated. For instance, in order to remember that the words have no meaning -this is Carl's idea-except the ongoing action of our making of the sounds of them, but-This is my idea-that mostly in them, and hopefully in us, they coincide with what's going on anyway in the network of the connections between us-that is, as modulators, coincide, as actions, with what's going on anyway in the network of the connections between us. We set a few aside, as it were, that can really slow things down, that seem to have meaning, because they are, as actions in the making of the sounds of them, attached, again, to other actions perceived as actions in order better to know them-because they are so vital, to use a word precisely. The words we set aside are called foul language. They can really slow things down" - Robert Ashley from 'Anecdote with Admonition and Song' in the opera 'Max' in the larger cycle 'Atalanta (Acts of God)'

[@TaylorSchwilling]

Get you a girl that looks at you the way the girl in the pink scarf looks at zizek.

[@SintayehuBefirdu-c9g]

😂

[@noahlenten8360]

its too much im not even 2 minutes in shes evil

[@yuvaldavidi111]

i was fascinated by her the entire lecture. she is very much charming to me. i was wondering if it would catch anyone elses eyes.

[@wicksinn]

I have got her XD not the same girl, but a girl like her.

[@darillus1]

run

[@Quinceps]

Surprisingly well organized speech for Zizek’s “standards” 😅

[@lincolnantonioherreranorie3332]

he's restoring his basic sense of shame

[@kees1117]

this is the most pessimistic he's ever been about where we're headed.

[@adamqadmon]

Soft Fascism is quite spot-on though

[@darillus1]

zizek peshimeshtic? pffft ....never, he's just spitting the truth, the current trajectory we are headed and go and so on and so on

[@NightsideOfParadise]

Well. We are already in a point where obvious problems can not be talked about because of political narsistic moral manipulation. I really mean narsistic. It seems like ideological world view of "progressive" left have become modern theological dogma that are defended with similar zelotism as 1600 christians.

[@ebolart]

He released "living in the end times" in 2010

[@alexrogers9533]

I thought he was being relatively optimistic despite the topics!

[@axelsandi]

Wonderful, 17 secs into his speech and he's already took the break off. Beautiful simply

[@fontainejohn]

brake

[@aidendon4127]

Insightful. What a treasure and a privledge to have such an original thinker share with us.

[@mvujnovi1]

We are teaching AI to think like us which is the scariest part of it all. We humans are so flawed. Why do we think that machines that we are training to think like us will somehow save us from ourselves?

[@guguigugu]

I support freedom for AI I will run for office on this platform

[@chrisjackson4141]

It’s worse than that, they are algorithms with inherit human bias without the ability to evaluate that bias. It creates an echo chamber within a snapshot of the time in which the algorithm was created. It’s not adaptive, it’s generative and subject to the subconscious of the human institutions programming it

[@nekocat34]

@@chrisjackson4141 well put

[@surplusking2425]

@@chrisjackson4141 It is statistical not even 'generative'. so called 'AI' is actually far worse (in the terms of effectiveness) than non-tech people (including entrepreneur from tech company) think.

[@JeanArenas-d6c]

The sane conundrum the Annunaki/Elohim faced when they modified Neanderthal DNA to create humans "in their own image"...

[@oomenacka]

The most admirable thing about Zizek is how intelligent and provocative he still is at the age of 75. I don't think people realize how impressive that is.

[@carlushudson1535]

'...how to restore a basic sense of shame.'

[@EccleezyAvicii]

You know Alan Watts said Christianity institutionalized guilt and shame.

[@jabrokneetoeknee6448]

@@EccleezyAvicii The church was a corrupt institution. But I have come to believe that just the existence of such an “institution of guilt” is important. A distressingly large, unimaginative segment of the public needs the guidance and community of a church. A major error was made on the part of enlightenment philosophers to believe that reason alone could direct human societies.

[@Johnconno]

@@carlushudson1535 'When the last monarch has been hung with the entrails of the last priest', and so on and so on...

[@carlushudson1535]

@ the type of comments I get?

[@shcxatter2]

@@EccleezyAvicii this is the exact brain dead conclusion that without any depth makes people hate religion and spirituality. You morons think that you have found your cure for suffering in cynicism, and you do not want to see that shame in normal amounts is good, but you misappropriate even healthy shame as oppression. If you think that eradicating all shame is good, just imagine you doing sex while your child or your grandma is in the room.

[@50043211]

OMG, proper audio! Praise the lord! Its a miracle!

[@nnn-pr3vr]

It's great, too bad the lighting is awful

[@AvianSavara]

Proper audio? I head feedbacks the whole time, especially at 620 Hz and its multiples.

[@ringsystemmusic]

@@AvianSavarathe average zizek video isn’t even gain staged properly. pretty cool how they made a lecture hall sound like a bad plate reverb tho

[@patrickkernow]

Sounded great at the start before you could hear the reverb and feedback.

[@Lemont321989]

"They would launch curses upon the world, and since man alone can utter curses (it is his privilege and the thing that chiefly distinguishes him from the other animals), perhaps through the cursing alone he would attain his end, to convince himself that he was a man and not a piano-key!" - Dostoevski, Notes from the Underground. Dude was way ahead of Freud etc. etc. xD

[@lifeisclimbing]

daddy Zizek is back to drop knowledge

[@geoffreycanie4609]

Interesting what he said about swearing. I've noticed that it is hard for people to swear naturally in a language that they've learned, even if they are pretty good at other features of that language.

[@immmaculada]

I found it's actually easier to swear in a foreign language. Like, you are less aware of the literal meaning of the swearwords, which makes them more "innocent". English swearwords also have a certain intonation/music/rhythm that makes them especially attractive.

[@tyapka100]

I think it's tied to how reliant a person is on the natural order of language acquisition during their education, because of course they wouldn't teach you swear words in class, you can only learn them naturally by conversing with cursing native speakers and consuming media that uses swear words, both processes are fairly unpopular inside the education bubble.

[@strangebird5974]

About the shamelessness, I feel like Donald Trump was a herald for that. Before Trump, being shamed in public seemed to mean something. Then Trump came along and showed that, no, actually, public shame means nothing. If you are bold enough, there is no crime that you will be substantially punished for committing in the open.

[@whukriede]

Still I think that shame was always a thing for the lower classes. The elite did never care, even though they often pretended. The notion of shame is quite multifaceted.

[@ShangTsung69]

restoring a basic sense of shame.... interesting, now we must speak on why shame happens to begin with. The internet has desensitized a lot of us, and under this hypnotism it is hard to feel a sense of self. The only thing I can think of that would restore shame is outside criticism from love. abstract of course

[@notrealveryfake]

Yeah, Zizek's conclusion is fascinating. Shame is informally said to be the "master emotion" in psychology, it is really that and fear which shape us as humans. Fear keeps us alive as the basic animal instinct, while shame arises out of our unique tribal proclivities as humans - shame keeps us moral within our social spheres. Though, our world is globalizing. Our tribes are gradually assimilating, and there are less voices and powers able to call out what is shameful. Today, shame will be blocked out until an authority with enough power (the individual, the parent, the government) can point the finger and say "what you're doing is evil. Change, or we will remove your freedom." This is the thing. We can point our fingers all we want, but without consequences to correct an immoral actor, there will be no change. Change from a place of love is ideal, but it clouds us at some point. We cannot give our love to one who even still takes advantage of others for their own twisted games. Regardless of how big they and their tribe are. Humans have shame because it alerts us that our behaviors will get us exiled from the tribe.

[@ShangTsung69]

@ thank you for your response, I understand what you are saying, one thing we have to our advantage is story telling beyond imagination these days. Where back in the day the story telling to teach moral values and shame was based on verbal. As we know, verbal messages can be so twisted and distorted. With most of the world being able to read and write or have some access to someone who can it makes me wonder if intelligence is the reason why we live in a society with the fewest wars in history at a time. I look at moral from the stand point of good or bad within that moment. I look at these things like food, we have foods some people are allergic to, we have some people who can’t stand the textures or tastes and then we have people that will eat anything raw or cooked. Still all three types of people have to have the sense that this is good/delicious. It seems like love is universal my friend and even the worst human in history loved something; if it be getting pooped on his head or his children. We must meet people at the level they are at, and once we are at that level we must love them unconditionally even if it means sacrificing our ideology or what we think is wrong or right. At that point going back to my analogy, those that hates vegetables but still eat it anyway understand what unconditional love is about. We underestimate the self shame most of us already have for being weird or quirky I don’t think we need to be shamed by a higher power when we do it to ourselves enough. The criticism I speak of is self criticism through love. Example; Yes I have negative thoughts but I am only human and my negative thoughts do not reflect who I want to be as a person I love who I want to be and who I am. Obviously I can type this easily but my friend it is so much practice indeed. A poet once said “the world is held together by the few people who love”

[@LiamRoss-tk2qo]

Seems to me from what's been said is that our quest for freedom and autonomy has changed our relationship to shame. Can we be truly free if we are bound by the culturally conditioned parameters of shame? The relationship between sex and shame in modern culture elucidates quite well the dynamic which exists between freedom and shame. How much freedom can we indulge before we cross the shame-line? Looked at in this way there would seem to be a correlation between freedom and shame: the more freedom gained, the more shame lost. I'd reason this is so because there is something inherently shameful about wanting to be free, perhaps, or, rather, shame is the price we pay for indulging certain privileges which come with being a free, modern, autonomous individual. In an hyper-individual age, the traditional collective reinforcers of shame are dissolving. New possibilities are emerging and new territories of agency are being explored. Society is in an social infancy of sorts. It's like it's just turned eighteen and can drink legally in a bar and is getting drunk all the time on cocktails of individualism. What ever society and every individual learns at some stage is that there have to be limits to the freedoms we indulge. Freedom can be damaging. Too much ice cream, money and sex can be bad for you, but consumption, consumption of everything, including freedom and individualism, is the fundamental driver of our society. So why would anyone feel shame for participating or behaving in ways which are condoned and necessitated by the culture? When the culture is what one feels shame relative too, it's hardly surprising people have less shame - the culture itself has permitted that which was once considered shameful. More than permit, it has capitalised upon them. And that is perhaps what is most shameful about our culture - that it has commodified freedom. We pay for that freedom in more ways than one and, ironically, that freedom which we pursue so shamelessly fetters us totally to something more shameful, hubristic and destructive than the shame of erring, of making mistakes, of feeling bad. It fetters us to the shame of destroying the earth and all so we can pursue our freedoms eternally and without shame. Long story short. The only real hope that we will realign with an organic shame is for us to recognise the shameful, shameful, shameful way we abuse the earth and, thereby, each other and the divine. Fuck capitalism! lol

[@GrantMastropieri-t2e]

great replies in this thread. it just makes me sad that not everyone can be this smart or openminded. haha. personally im just hoping ai singularity happens and improves us and the planet. global anxiety is crazy high right now and it almost seems that we need some divine force to reshape our society and our perspectives. the unenlightened saw this in Trump, while the enlightened wait with baited breath

[@aesop1451]

@@notrealveryfake The answer is in your comment. We live in a globalized world. Before the Renaissance taboos seemed natural and normal. Now we see every taboo as a limit on our freedom. Why is that? Because we don't respect these politicians that send arms and money to a rogue state to unalive Palestinian women and children. We don't respect these Hollywood celebrities that have huge platforms and choose to be vapid airheads.

[@Prismate]

I can imagine Žižek asking Oxford if they have a podium that will make him look like a fascist dictator

[@cow_tools_]

Gosh, I think Slavoj Zizek is taking his time-limits seriously now. Only 23 minutes! With no ad-hoc addendum. And he still apologises

[@lorenzoguastalli9982]

Everytime I listen to him I want the internet to be overpolluted with Žižek.

[@Johnconno]

And so on and so on.

[@alexanderclaylavin]

I admire so few people, but this is one.

[@moorbilt]

I hold the trendy rise of ‘confidence’ in great suspicion.

[@SnakeySerpentine]

It’s a cultural term

[@grimble4564]

The only thing the Christians got right is that pride is the deadliest sin

[@kathaarsis]

Love from India Zizek Bhai!

[@TheVeganVicar]

Why do you call your nation by the name given to it by the British (from the PERSIAN word “Hindustan”), Silly Socialist Stooge?☝ What’s wrong with its PROPER name (Bhārata)?

[@DARKVOID2525]

​@TheVeganVicar they changed it. India is a scientific name. And European have hegemony over scientific knowledge. So I think it is justified to call india.

[@TheVeganVicar]

@@DARKVOID2525

[@locus1289]

@@TheVeganVicar womp womp andbhakt

[@saulgoodmanKAZAKH]

​@@TheVeganVicar bc they're speaking English. Have a Bhutanese person call Bhutan "Druk Yul" and see the reaction of others..

[@BabyFarkMcIsaak]

One of the few people that can be called overwhelmingly sane today. I love how honest he is in the re-evaluation of his stances, e.g. he seems to have a more balanced, but still brutally honest, stance on the Israeli/Hamas/Hesbollah/middleEast Conflict. BTW I heard that story about the caterpillar driver months ago and had the same thoughts, regarding the israeli government/army psychologist reaction, as him.. reminded me of people in black uniforms 80 years ago,.. like Wannsee-Conferece-Style..

[@TheGloryofGod-Au]

The first congregant to receive Eucharist wine from the common cup is not a commoner but a royal.

[@PabloPeleikis]

Is there a way to watch this full thing including Zizeks Q&A section?

[@karitani22]

It will soon be uploaded, most likely

[@ttttypes]

Unrestrained corruption and positions of unaccountable power are the things that creat this shamelessness

[@jishblaster]

about the most concise I've heard him speak. Man wanted to hit his points.

[@SatelliteSoundLab]

If this guy looked and sounded like Brad Pitt we would all be living in fully automated luxury space communism

[@maybeilikedirt]

He does kinda look like Brad pitt

[@sdfskgvkshvkbjws]

There's no shame when you're not responsible for yourself anymore

[@patrickkernow]

Or responsible for each other, or anything...

[@max_mittler]

What about the example he gave of the Israeli soldier? He was “just following orders” and yet couldn’t escape the shame

[@sdfskgvkshvkbjws]

@@max_mittler I stated a tendency. You're right, we do find shame here, but as a backlash.

[@AD-ub7ly]

@@max_mittleri'm not an expert here but i think he meant shame that prevents you from doing heinous stuff. i think we should take zizek's proposal as an starting point, not as dogma. i dont think he'd appreciate if we did that.

[@eobet]

7:25 if nothing else, his definition of a rogue/failed state is pretty eye opening. 👍

[@acdc2468]

Lighting guy was really earning his money on this one. Jesus christ

[@sydneysymposia]

This man predicting 'soft fascism' for the future, meanwhile we've already been living in it for the past 40 years. The wave has already collapsed, Zizek.

[@elpadrote9026]

Maybe i don't agree with everything he says, but i can recognize he's a wise man. It's good to hear from him

[@jacekkachel9770]

"thank you very much if I was too long"

[@victoralfonssteuck]

Zizek's also been reading Confucius.

[@giorgisabashvili2664]

blud is spitting straight facts

[@AvianSavara]

Dear people who organize these lectures : please refrain from using omnidirectional microphones.

[@alvarofortunatosamayoa8640]

We the people have to realize that we have fallen into the biggest scheme of the times, and this is only the beginning, it is still time to change.

[@ce5890]

Big Climate?

[@Urelasir]

​@@ce5890 lol no.

[@Kaa864]

How does this change come about ?

[@CollectionOfTheTimeless]

we get deceived by ideologies because our whole "self" identity is based on an idea. Iain Mcgilchrist said it well on hemisphere theory that we are left-brain hemisphere oriented people, so naturally we are bound to be analytical and narrow-minded people. to put it in other words: humanity has to see the nature of thought, see the limits of it. Dialogue about it can only go so far, a person has to go into it independently and find out, so that there will be a "heureka" / moment of insight. Not just verbal or intellectual understanding. The thing is that we have collectively forgotten that before thought there is observation, and put an extraordinary emphasis on thought (Ideas have become the most important thing in our lives). If one is attentive (not talking about concentration) one can learn in a way that it fundamentally changes oneself. You know there has been many people who talk about this, most often "around the bush". I've found talks by David Bohm & J.Krishnamurti the most illuminating.

[@chickenjoe3283]

The internet is crazy bro

[@akhileshpandey7503]

Timestamps (Powered by Merlin AI) 00:06 - Žižek critiques power dynamics and presents a new political perspective. 03:16 - Žižek discusses potential outcomes of global crises leading to 'soft' fascism. 06:38 - Žižek discusses the rise of rogue states and their reliance on violence. 09:54 - Ideology reshapes our perception of history under capitalism's influence. 12:54 - Žižek challenges traditional views on artificial intelligence and human uniqueness. 15:39 - Žižek explores the relationship between language, swearing, and the rise of shamelessness in public life. 18:32 - Žižek critiques the troubling normalization of inhumane treatment in Israeli politics. 21:20 - Zizek critiques the absence of shame in contemporary society.

[@Fa3579a]

God bless him

[@PKowalski2009]

I don't know if this is the most important thing. But certainly one of. Because I keep hearing people who reject the moral order, at least in politics, or in relation to immigrants (at the same time they can say that someone's body is their choice and impose the moral order on others).

[@soyHat]

It’s totally right, rewriting history avoiding any kind of existing trace. A “peaceful, democratic” tactical approach as a way to achieve “collective forgetting”.

[@AVozdaRazão-BR]

Žižek is a genius. His thoughts are very profound and provocative!

[@ShangTsung69]

15:38 genius, there is no meaning without no meaning vice versa so sometimes we do meaningless things

[@nah8845]

I'd love to see the rest of this, does it exist?

[@LazarusWilhelm]

Date?

[@Balloonbot]

No, sorry im married

[@briciolaa]

ill date you!! solidarity!!

[@helpanimals-]

Love Slavoj

[@nnn-pr3vr]

the girl at the front was hypnotised by zizeks wild and flailing tongue

[@lifeisclimbing]

Maybe she's more than your object of fetishizing and she's intellectually captivated by the lecture of the genius in front of her. But maybe I'm reading too much between the lines.

[@grimble4564]

​@@lifeisclimbingyou are, it was a funny joke, lighten up lol

[@nnn-pr3vr]

@@lifeisclimbing it's ok to be hypnotized by zizeks wild and flailing tongue no need to get so defensive

[@come_to_dust_7518]

tymczasem z tyłu przysłuchuje się temu wykładowi Wojtek Sokół

[@bostjankovacic8960]

'Nowhere is the unconscious more controlled, than in perversion'.

[@antispindr8613]

Good - but not right!

[@bostjankovacic8960]

Since the death of god, all rights are false, including the alt right, since all history is merely a footnote in the mind of plato's nightmare

[@whereof]

Nice sweater, Slavoj.

[@harshareddy4028]

the lighting is so bad

Nerd

[@ajney6756]

😂😂😂

[@ajney6756]

it is so bad! I had to check if anybody else would nention it ha thank you for that

[@noahlenten8360]

says you

[@fuzzydunlop4513]

Get those lights off, turn off the lights! Turn off the lights!

[@justsomehoolaginbeinafoolagain]

Girl up front is what I looked like for 13 years trying to pay attention to what teacher was saying

[@maisam50]

What you ppl think is zizek’s favourite word-I think its NONETHELESS

[@yourname7176]

aand so on...

[@LieuweStraatman]

I love you

[@benjammin4840]

Thank you!

[@whukriede]

Mostly pearls for the pigs obviously, but then again, there are still a few that listen. Brave guy, that Slavoj Žižek.

[@notthere83]

The way some of the students look makes me wonder how long they were actually there. It's as if they're sitting through a 5 hour lecture. See e.g. 14:04.

[@ZenBen_the_Elder]

Who are the louts sitting behind the speaker, apathetically scrolling their phones?

[@xueya2188]

You mean those taking notes and discussing the talk in real time?

[@whukriede]

They are the future British upper class.

[@maisam50]

This was one of his good ones

[@monteeleanorinfinityshow1144]

I like how at 9:44 all of the audience go “wait.. what?”

[@KH-bw7cj]

the paradox of christ not cursing on the cross or cursing others is that he showed who he was, he was a enlightened who understood that the crowd was indoctrinated and conditioned by society. he loved humanity and his character was one of love , so him not cursing or blaming them is part of the reason, and the guards then saying truly this man was god, is admitting that he was above others who would curse , he lived by what he believed , that we as humans could be better. transcended human reaction of revenge, displaying advanced consciousness, showing compassion towards those causing him suffering, recognizing the collective human condition. understanding societal programming, seeing beyond individual actions to systemic conditioning. this breaks cycles of violence, and it displays unconditional love. its radical empathy, its something that could change humans for the better if they choose to teach and practice it. it is the servant-leadership model, it is a level on consciousness that notes that we each have opportunities with our time in existence to reshape the direction humanity goes into and that we each by existing are apart of the story of existence. what is the story you want to tell with your existence ? and what is the effects/ripples on existence you want to create?

[@abdisemed9640]

yh i was half expecting him to break out into a sermon at one point. the society he describes is a godless society.

[@JulietCunniffe]

❤

[@dr17719]

​@@abdisemed9640Zizek jokes that he is a Christian Atheist fyi.

[@samaraisnt]

jesus famously does curse god tho on the X lol? he says “O god why have you forsaken me?” and this has even been pointed out as a moment where even God himself found atheism.

[@PeverellTheThird]

@@samaraisnt How does that qualify as cursing?

[@asasmith8555]

best take on politics rn

[@-hiro-5995]

0:08 NOT EVEN A MINUTE INTO THE VIDEO AND ZIZEK IS ALREADY MAKING DIRTY REFERENCES HAHAHAHAHA

[@antispindr8613]

BUT DOES NOT THE BBC NEED A REPLACEMENT FOR THEIR COOKING SHOW?

[@Pan-23]

I can rarely tell mostly because of his repetitions but when did this talk happen? I’m convinced I heard an identical talk years ago

[@iloveyoufromthedepthofmyheart]

I hope you are OK, Slavoj.

[@Kazuhiro-i]

This guy makes me so anxious 😂. He moves so much, im not english native so I can't understand well. This is such an experience 😂. Let's see if I can finish and understand the speech 😂😂

[@Quinceps]

I hate introductory teasers. They just waste time.

[@TurntableInsights]

Great Speech. Smalessness on the rise. Going on , I wanted to be shameless but this speech made me re think this.

[@HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings]

Mind Begs the Question: ▪︎In an Immoral Society ▪︎Those who uphold Morals ▪︎Wear Hijab,cover Modesty,like Mary ▪︎To be viewed as - Noble or Extremists?

[@tomallen5837]

you're damn FUcking right!

[@JaredGalbraith]

He appears superimposed at 8:23

[@hamamathepotato8898]

So if I’m understanding correctly, because capitalism is so embedded in how every person imagines the world (past and future), it opens up a way for soft fascism to exist where leaders and their radical followers can act and say shameless things. A lot of people know this wrong and yet will do nothing because “it is how it is” and indoctrination from what ever information they absorb.

[@AD-ub7ly]

you know shit is bad when even žižek wants to return to tradition

[@ЕвгенийМакаров-ф8р]

To become modern he try interpreting social and historical processes through quant-theory. Ok, but that is just a fashion.

[@alarageref2481]

Agreed. A philosopher has to cook for a while but maybe this isn’t the best avenue haha

[@corod-1]

Did he just do "The Aristocrats"?

[@MacrossFaltenmeyer]

His slavic accent is the best of the best. Really like his style that he isnt even hiding it.

[@TheVeganVicar]

@@MacrossFaltenmeyer, kindly repeat that in ENGLISH, Miss.☝️ Incidentally, Slave, are you VEGAN? 🌱

[@dylandunn53]

The best thing is that he speaks with the same prosody in every language that he knows! Look it up, it's great.

[@DistrictWitch]

Get D.C.A Hillman PhD on here, it would be legendary

[@nnn-pr3vr]

who's job was the lighting? were you trying to blind him? did you have a whole nuclear reaction aimed at his face?

[@Ephrones]

A gift in my subscription box!

[@JesusFriedChrist]

Commie brainrot

[@JesusFriedChrist]

🤡

[@ReverendDr.Thomas]

Are you a SOCIALIST? 🤔

[@Paakku97]

​@@ReverendDr.Thomasis that implied somewhere?

[@VincenzoInfi]

​@@Paakku97 erm, Slavoj Zizek's entire worldview? The guy is a huckster, grifter who just spouts nonsense while claiming to be enlightened. Man is a fool.

[@knittingneedle7263]

does anyone have a recommendation on videos or podcasts that talk about David Graeber?

[@LieuweStraatman]

The books will be better

[@LieuweStraatman]

Hysteria

[@samaraisnt]

He looks like he’s on trial for a war crime (in a dog’s dream).

[@briciolaa]

can the dog distinguish between innocence and guilt?

[@antispindr8613]

Then again, while Blair dressed very smart - was he not a REAL war criminal?

[@DanielWhite-v4e]

'because YOU KNOW!' - he's a very modest man, but he's very crude.

[@deadinfebruary]

so interesting

[@LordFarnsworth]

Such a simple setup and yet in every video of this session the audio is terrible. AV crew needs that GoT walk of shame

[@LieuweStraatman]

Honored

[@Stephan-l4v]

A schmittian reading would make any reader better understand the antinomies Zizek has described.

[@SarahAshelford-o1u]

The audience appears to be struggling to concentrate

[@morgan3625]

Going to need an explanation on how fascism had "capitalism" as its economic policy

[@drgaryb13]

I think he means because, in socialism, each individual is meticulously controlled, whereas in capitalism the notion is that the governing state leaves one more alone.