Slavoj Žižek: Freedom - possible, impossible

[@mutaziones]

this feels like the most cohesive I have heard slavoy giving a speech. beautiful

[@f.urrinston2784]

This man is a real thinker committed to stir people for a better world.

[@eff_gee321]

Indeed, his swiss army wife is a revolutionary idea.

[@kellyw8017]

He is full of preconceived notions.

[@markyuto6820]

Kill people* dystopian*

[@annacolman5287]

My great and wonderful Zizek , you are one of the truest supporters of freedom.

[@2Luke100]

Love the ghostly visage which floats on Zizek's right side at all times. Really adds to the experience of the talk.

[@farrider3339]

*,,Freiheit ist Angst !"* 3 words only which make clear what we're trying to deal with for centuries °

[@Rolando_Cueva]

Freedom is Fear

[@boognewsnetwork7620]

And so, and so on! I totally agree with the day after V for Vendetta movie being needed. Freedom is about self autonomy without infringing upon on another's autonomy my opinion. The responsibility of this freedom is enforcing the self autonomy of others.

[@solidcake3401]

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[@LarsTragel-zh7ei]

LOL.

[@IndieGuvenc]

2022 is much different than 2016 or whenever this video was taken. This changes the whole context really

[@sfopera]

Here's one thing that IS possible: Zizek will appear anywhere and anytime to talk about anything. About which he is CERTAIN.

[@vogelvogeltje]

30:45 and war becomes “special military operation”

[@Francey4782]

I think he makes a great point at the end, but l would argue that discovering similarities between peoples can be a wonderful thing as long as the differences are never ignored.

[@koalakoala2344]

Yes, I think that's what he meant with "rare miracles" at the end. There's a guy with a different culture living next door, but we shouldn't be forced to discover our similarities. That's like being forced to work with someone you don't know in school. I want to live next door to that guy and completely ignore him, then one day he accepted a parcel for me, so I go over to him and discover he wears a shirt of my favorite band, we have a short conversation and that's it. You can't force these things.

[@wyleong4326]

The talks starts at 1:00:45.

[@rickestrickc-1375]

Hate and fear are the unifying parameters of man. "Not love your neighbor as thyself" Or to even take this suggestion one step further : Because we cannot love ourselves as ordered by a commandment , we give the neighbor what we feel truly for ourselves : *Contempt and rejection. . .* Sorry , I don't have time to develop this further now ~ Zizek 🏆 precise and wonderful 👌

[@averageinternetuser526]

adam phillips?

[@rickestrickc-1375]

@George Rapist , dimwit ?

[@valardohaeriz5163]

Such a brilliant mind

[@vickydestephano7415]

Love announces itself.

[@Sveshiniekslv]

45. Zizek argues that the measures against Greece would be even more severe if they were in line with the sentiments of EU citizens. But he is silent about the fact that the responsibility of EU officials who allowed such a situation would also be much higher. Because the growth of Greece's debt was contrary to EU regulations. That is, in these conditions, no one is responsible for non-compliance with the established rules. Freedom and responsibility are two sides of the same coin. Freedom implies responsibility for decisions made. When decisions are made by some, and others are responsible for the consequences, this is not freedom.

[@galek75]

Zizek wouldn't deny anything you said.

[@mhndrvrm]

Traditionally, creditors will be held responsible for making bad loans as they should be.

[@sisyphus645]

and so on and so on

[@GAYPARTY6969]

Ans so on , and so on , and so on .

[@juon5426]

c'mon man! Slavoj and Alan Moore for a sit-down chat!

[@jahcica]

it is a sin that this video does not have captions

[@TomekSamcik69]

Nothing is possible in the domain of social and economic relations, so that everything could be possible at the level of intense personal experiences.

[@PlayNiceFolks]

Only Sith deal in absolutes??

[@PlayNiceFolks]

Somethings are possible in the domain of blah blah, and some other things could be possible at blah bluh blah blah.

[@TomekSamcik69]

There's a causation relationship between those two statements

[@TomekSamcik69]

Inverse correlation rather, don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist

[@canreadandsee]

@@PlayNiceFolks I agree with your argument. Indeed, people in general stick to rules, regulations, and superficiality in their relationships to others, independently of the political spectrum they associate themselves. They hide behind relational formulas they somehow caught throughout their lives. And they follow those who promise to establish the strongest ones. Social media leaves people in the utmost abstract and superficial state of relating to others including themselves. You hit the nail on its head saying that only the “intense personal experience” and I would add with others and oneself, makes everything possible, and thus opens the space for true freedom of (inter)action. People foremost don’t and avoid to know themselves but believe to “know” others. I would even go so far to say that people are actually afraid of (knowing and accepting) themselves and they project their fear onto others.

[@vandenhuud8570]

Oke without subtitle I wont never understand what you say.

[@ono24]

"...vulgar ordinariness..."

[@teacherb6090]

Slavoj Žižek = Papa Smurf of philosophical Smurfs

[@mahmoudseleem8006]

would you explain your equation?

[@jmmh1313]

@@mahmoudseleem8006 philosophy is a pseudo science made up by little unpaloompas while we sleep and this kind grey bear of a failure that we have as the smartest philosopher of our times is their papa. Not exactly as a spanish father but more like the head of their church... Now live with that pic xd

[@discospider4120]

@Jose Mario Morón Hermano Bmi

[@davyroger3773]

@peaceandlove69 Correct philosophy started as a proto science and now a sort of meta science

[@EroomYrrah]

I WANT A...... SWISS ARMY WIFE......

[@RYBATUGA]

1:42 - We shouldn’t believe in a trasnscendental horizon of social practices

[@christenmcmahonhawaii]

this smart guy score some Peruvian booger sugar or what?

[@Robert_McGarry_Poems]

Right. My skin started to crawl just watching him twitch...

[@bajes328]

30:45 _"[Those who were] black became African-Americans, [those who were] fat became weight-challenged, torture becomes enhanched interrogation technique, and my joking proposal was 'why shouldn't [...] then rape become enhanced seduction technique?'"_ He then comments around 36:10 about coming conflicts. This somehow sounds so weirdly prescient given the "special military denazification operation" that the Invasion of Ukraine came to be called.

[@dariojara2735]

great ideas! though too much beauty words, but too much idealist! and all ideal or perfection, especially in ethics, is curiously ideal and perfect for childs and inmatures!

[@shadoll7856]

Interesting

[@alinebaruchi1936]

We are ugly

[@mark-edward.9232]

Po=No / im = no Correct sentence structure communication parse syntax

[@sardaukarlevebrench3804]

You can sin - this is freedom. You can go to hell - this is lack of freedom. The end.

[@soulfuzz368]

I personally find it contradictory that Zizek believes people are too stupid for democracy when it comes to civil rights but perfectly rational when it comes to economics, something that is likely much more complicated.

[@rickestrickc-1375]

When and where people were ever consistent in their appearance ? 'We have to save the planet , OK let's fly Bahamas🇧🇸 ' ✊😁

[@greyngreyer5]

The only reason "economy" is more complicated is because democracy made it so.

[@soulfuzz368]

@@greyngreyer5 do you think markets are democratic?

[@greyngreyer5]

@@soulfuzz368 Do you think democracy is?

[@soulfuzz368]

@@greyngreyer5 it’s the same word man, of course. A more interesting question would be something like “do we live in a democracy?” Or “does a truly democratic country exist?”

[@waindayoungthain2147]

How can we not manage of the desires for your satisfaction as well as you manage the environmental rights for your reasons and have no respect rights as it’s beings . We blaming everyone on your behavior but not self search before, how’s life threatening, Zizek?

[@cartoons981]

.what is he reading ? if he is expressing his thoughts?

[@anpro....]

👍

[@jmgresham93]

The functional energy of China is exhausting at a continual rate. There might be indefinite probability when it comes to their war interests and future conflict because of their social structure due to actions that have occurred and continue to occur in China.

[@waindayoungthain2147]

It’s prejudiced mount of attitude condemned or it’s not going with your attitude😾. How’s mount of man knees on the government’s desires😲. Please advise me. How’s system awareness of we are .

[@janklaas6885]

©️44:31

[@syourke3]

Funny how the rulers love to prattle on about our "freedom".

[@waindayoungthain2147]

What’s happening on the democratic side if’s I found out that the expectations of design your idea of conflict not happening with solutions. How’s your future going with you have never given, but taking your life away from no respect or responsibility and weakness in weapons control and not laws equality .

[@andreavalentini1648]

Not another hour of Slavoj in English. Ill rather learn Slovenian

[@manchesterunited9576]

His English is good what are you talking about

[@adcaptandumvulgus4252]

For the love of God get that man a tissue

[@l.w.paradis2108]

A form of Tourette Syndrome. (A mild form, if you can believe it.) He is multilingual, and has different tics in different languages. He has the least when he speaks Slovenian. Strange genius. He even did his army service in the old Yugoslav Army, they didn't think this was a big deal back then.

[@pydzio]

20:00 No doubt every person shall be protected against any corporal punishment and vast majority would agree on. But who is going to establish those "taboo topics" that we shall not discuss about? Prof. Zizek is proposing here a very dangerous tool that can be used by different lobby groups in order to raise their interest and shut out debate on it. It's a double-edged sword. No matter are you having leftist or rightist point of view you could be excluded.

[@davidsutherland6122]

Hey, bub! I saw you got S. Gros's re-post removed! Well done and in short order too. If you're in the mood for a laugh, find Gros's post entitled: Slavoj Zizek & Gary Younge: Against The Double Blackmail -Guardian Live Event (19. April, 2016) and go to the commentary section where you'll find my reply to his "piracy" defense/excuse. -The guy's a dick, and I'm glad you got your video removed from his site. -Please let me know IF you checked it (my commentary) out. If you don't want to be bothered with it, that's fine too. -Later, and again, sorry for the original misunderstanding regarding who the originator of the post was.

[@patricknfrank]

I couldnt find his 'excuse', but your nice answer. He is trying to make money with other videos. Simple like that, everything else is bullshit. Why he puts a commercial to my Zizek-Video? He's a dick and is doing it with tons of videos. Most of the owners didnt care about it. I was suprised that he didnt ask me and ditn add the source. And yes, im not Hollywood, lol. That 'defense' is hilarious!

[@waindayoungthain2147]

Don’t the democratic living in the world itself has never been in concrete but conflict of trying to craft the air for self ideological tills refugees they created for warriors living with their lost, no where to go😲.

[@caiomoreira7398]

The guy in 37:49 . LUL

[@TheNoblot]

Free Will, Language, and Political Power / However to have free will the mind needs a certain possibilities of discernment the mind can perceive , however that perception must be approximation to a certain reality, "human reality" When reality is manufactured conditioned and domesticated to keep a society functioning on specific rules freedom no longer exist, what does exist are concepts memory & experience. the conclusion of any experience is determined by your cognitive capacity, which is determined by your upbringings' what you saw as a child and how that picture develop & fits with the current reality of the here & now. The here and now evolves & schooling cannot evolve in relation to the current reality the individual exist, existence remains fix in this context & reality is always evolving, nothing remains fix everything is on a perpetual movement. Human limitation exist on this fact that the animal humans will remain as an animal human, his mind is what is believed to be superior ethereal & spiritual, however mind is fix to the animal body/ better enjoy the body pleasure and understand the ethereal mind keep them as one

[@waindayoungthain2147]

It’s the 2 days meaning of life, the birthday 🥳 and the day you discovered what? How’s we live with illusions of democratic freedom? How’s we live with propaganda for long time with Russia aggression! How’s you doing what’s I found out it’s the most disturbing thing and scary 😟, how’s the USA 🇺🇸 and alliance dragged us through War’s for democratic freedom movement. How’s Russia have never been in the democratic propaganda , there’s they stand on their Earth🤥. How’s Arab spirit!

[@PlayNiceFolks]

I hate how he sounds. Literally. If he spoke through an artificial voice, I'd prefer that. I don't read much, so, I guess I'll never ever care what he has to say, much.

[@mirrorengine]

thank you for your constructive and useful comment 😂

[@doclime4792]

If you're daunted by books, read chapters, work your way up to books. Most philosophy classes don't even include entire books, look up a course syllabus and it will have individual chapters. No one is expected to read the entirety of everything and become an expert in fact that's foolish. Good if not obvious advice for a modern individual is to pick one subject to be good at and a generalist in all other things.