Slavoj Zizek - Why people were 'happier' under communism

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I WOULD PREFER NOT TO

3 жыл бұрын

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@iwouldprefernotto49
@iwouldprefernotto49 10 ай бұрын
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@Y0Uanonymous
@Y0Uanonymous 3 жыл бұрын
Mr Zizek is talking such an English that the subtitles are auto-generated in Dutch
@therearenoshortcuts9868
@therearenoshortcuts9868 3 жыл бұрын
spoilers: this was actually a speech in Dutch it was a speech about robots
@CamouflageMaster
@CamouflageMaster 3 жыл бұрын
Funny cause I thought his accent sounded relatively close to my own in certain ways (from provence of Antwerp)
@aniksamiurrahman6365
@aniksamiurrahman6365 3 жыл бұрын
LOL!
@limitnl
@limitnl 3 жыл бұрын
Hahaha classic! Mooi man :)
@abdullahgideon9391
@abdullahgideon9391 2 жыл бұрын
I realize I am kinda randomly asking but do anybody know a good place to watch newly released series online?
@HairyBogTrotter
@HairyBogTrotter 3 жыл бұрын
"Happiness is when you almost get what you want" must be why people can watch a 0 - 0 soccer match.
@devilsadvocate7389
@devilsadvocate7389 3 жыл бұрын
As a long term Liverpool fan, I think I was more happy in 2014 than in 2020.
@seankelly378
@seankelly378 3 жыл бұрын
@@devilsadvocate7389 the paradise of winning the league and CL got too close and real ah
@sayan1667
@sayan1667 3 жыл бұрын
What is soccer?
@miguelpereira9859
@miguelpereira9859 3 жыл бұрын
A 0-0 match can legitimately be very entertaining tho
@MinusMaximusXX
@MinusMaximusXX 3 жыл бұрын
Me desculpe, eu só conheço futebol
@Otto-Just
@Otto-Just 3 жыл бұрын
"Truth and happiness does not go together" - isn't that just great.
@NIL0S
@NIL0S 3 жыл бұрын
"Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire." Friedrich Nietzsche
@nicksakoyannis4808
@nicksakoyannis4808 3 жыл бұрын
Happiness is only outside of history. Hegel
@Marzaries
@Marzaries 3 жыл бұрын
Depends, what do you mean by truth and happiness?
@Yet.Another.Rapper.KiG.V2
@Yet.Another.Rapper.KiG.V2 3 жыл бұрын
@@Marzaries How do you interpret the two?
@Marzaries
@Marzaries 3 жыл бұрын
@@Yet.Another.Rapper.KiG.V2 They are just concepts. And anything I will say after this fact, will just be added or subtracted from the pool of concepts we draw from. Rather, whatever truth and happiness are, refer to something deeper, something unutterable. (Life) -- if that is an appropriate usage of the term here, is a movement towards that thing which is unutterable. And, in this movement we give things names, but they do not define us, nor construct our overall experiences. They are just tools of navigation, from which we draw upon, but they are not the totality of things as such.
@sansnom5269
@sansnom5269 3 жыл бұрын
Once again people missing the point of Zizek hegelian method of presentation, and conclusion. He is not advocating the soviet failure while saying it was a happy time, he is putting in check the notion of happiness, by comparing it with a failure. The biggest product in capitalism is happiness. Not in the notion that you can buy happiness directly from the product, that would be a pagan way of thinking, but by the notion that while buying it you achieves happiness on itself, the new pentecostal way to see it. Zizek is, of course, touching on ideology and how our happiness is based not in the pursue of it, but by the illusion of having it. That way Zizek also touches in the notion of Utopia. The only way to live "happy" at the utopia, is to never build it. Yes, Zizek can sound confusing at times, but he is very consistent, talking in hegelian terms about politics, while using Lacan for his reasoning and conclusion.
@TytoAlpha
@TytoAlpha 3 жыл бұрын
the zizek understander has logged on
@kobinho1917
@kobinho1917 3 жыл бұрын
@@TytoAlpha my got
@TeaParty1776
@TeaParty1776 3 жыл бұрын
Z is an intellectual fraud, destroying minds with contradictions. He does not want to focus his mind.
@sansnom5269
@sansnom5269 3 жыл бұрын
@@TytoAlpha Sorry I should have posted some meme about nose or his speech pattern. Silly me trying to make a point on a philosophy video.
@sansnom5269
@sansnom5269 3 жыл бұрын
@@TeaParty1776 k Chomsky
@vlad1krakov
@vlad1krakov 3 жыл бұрын
Here I claim, that it is PRECISELY this KZbin algorithm, that is supposed to be so radicalizing and mind-numbing and so on and so on, that brings me to worthwhile new content and that, therefore, brings me happiness. * sniff *
@Yet.Another.Rapper.KiG.V2
@Yet.Another.Rapper.KiG.V2 3 жыл бұрын
Don't forget the UH! UH--UH--UH--UHHH..UH! interjections
@Lastninjaxoxoxoxox
@Lastninjaxoxoxoxox 3 жыл бұрын
Here I claim, that it is PRECISELY this KZbin algorithm, that is supposed to be so radicalizing and mind-numbing and so on and so on, that brings me to worthwhile new content to study and that, therefore, is an excuse for me to procrastinate studying for what I'm actually supposed to study.
@Huliscool1
@Huliscool1 3 жыл бұрын
"there is a greek woman here. i would like to ask her a question." (doesn't ask her a question)
@REALdavidmiscarriage
@REALdavidmiscarriage 2 жыл бұрын
That was pretty funny
@hattruck8607
@hattruck8607 3 жыл бұрын
He is back
@wassup1742
@wassup1742 3 жыл бұрын
Hell yeah
@Петр_Игнатьевич_Рожок
@Петр_Игнатьевич_Рожок 3 жыл бұрын
When we needed him the most
@alejandroungaro4488
@alejandroungaro4488 3 жыл бұрын
Yes, BACKWARDS TO THE GULAGS AND THE FORBIDDEN THOUGHT.
@MrBezagreen
@MrBezagreen 3 жыл бұрын
Thank God
@bastooo3
@bastooo3 3 жыл бұрын
is this really from now? He acutally looks younger than before!
@mr.buttram2837
@mr.buttram2837 3 жыл бұрын
Zizek is one of the those guys that I can describe as clickbait in human form. He leads you in with controversial statements and in just a few minutes he makes you feel stupid for ever thinking they were controversial.
@spudbencer7179
@spudbencer7179 Жыл бұрын
I guess you and 76 other people didn't correctly interprete the quotation marks in which "happier" stands
@lieutenantbigz938
@lieutenantbigz938 3 жыл бұрын
My gott! You're back!
@georgemartin5156
@georgemartin5156 3 жыл бұрын
I didnt think you would come back to KZbin I became a total pessimist and so on
@jmdr7522
@jmdr7522 3 жыл бұрын
hes back, finally! I missed these quick zizek talks!
@mallemehryar9965
@mallemehryar9965 3 жыл бұрын
Welcome back. So good to listen to your speech again. Happy April🌺🌱🦋
@brandonharris8111
@brandonharris8111 3 жыл бұрын
Welcome back! I always loved your works.
@aniksamiurrahman6365
@aniksamiurrahman6365 3 жыл бұрын
2:18 the second point is an eye-opener for me. Thanks Dr. Zizek. I'll include this in my reviewing of my own decisions.
@Lemwell7
@Lemwell7 3 жыл бұрын
“Now I will become a Christian”
@SiriusB88
@SiriusB88 2 жыл бұрын
1. He is not praising the Soviet Union. He is just using it as an example. 2. He does not advocate stagnation or disinterest in reaching one's own personal goals. He is just explaining that the pursuit of happiness will not lead you anywhere. You should instead work for a personal cause while being very careful not to find ways to avoid reaching your object of desire (so that you can continue being happy, or, in other words, constantly ruminating on the idea of how wonderful it would be to get that thing you want). He is definitely for productivity.
@musicloverkathy
@musicloverkathy 3 жыл бұрын
When I still see Chomsky being lauded as The World's Greatest Dissident, I think of Slovaj. Not to underestimate the greatness of Manufacturing Consent, but Slovaj is 100 times more in touch with real people and builds his immense theoretical scholarship on what we actually live. He makes Chomsky look like an amateur.
@fuckamericanidiot
@fuckamericanidiot 3 жыл бұрын
The World's Greatest Gravy-Stained Dissident 😅
@dumupad3-da241
@dumupad3-da241 3 жыл бұрын
These two are not comparable at all, since only one of them is some kind of dissident at all. Chomsky actually does something to fight the existing capitalist-imperialist status quo. Zizek does nothing of the sort - on the contrary, when push comes to shove, he always defends it and attacks the revolts against it, as he also does here. Verbally backstabbing not only the Prague Spring, but even Corbyn is very much his style.
@musicloverkathy
@musicloverkathy 3 жыл бұрын
@@dumupad3-da241 And Corbyn is your idea of mainstream? Explain that.
@dumupad3-da241
@dumupad3-da241 3 жыл бұрын
@@musicloverkathy Corbyn was mostly just a moderate social democratic reformist like Sanders in that he simply proposed a return to a post-WW2-style welfare state, a Keynesian rollback of the post-2009 austerity policies, re-nationalisation of the railways and undoing of the Thatcherite privatisations etc.; there were some very timid hints of actually transcending capitalism by introducing some worker participation in decision-making, but even this wasn't unprecedented - Germany has had such things for many decades. You didn't have to be a revolutionary socialist or Marxist in order to support Corbyn at all; any sort of socialist or social democrat worth the name would have supported him as a matter of course, as did Chomsky. On the other hand, it does take a revolutionary Marxist or some other kind of truly radical socialist - which Zizek supposedly is, too - to espouse the idea that capitalism shouldn't have been restored in 1960s Czechoslovakia and that the society we should be striving for is at least as similar to 1960s Czechoslovakia as it is to modern welfare-state capitalism. Or, with another emphasis - as *different* from modern welfare-state capitalism as 1960s Czechoslovakia was. Chomsky, as a libertarian socialist, aka (left-wing) anarchist, would probably agree at least with the latter formulation. All of these distinctions matter little in Zizek's case, of course. He is only a left-winger by the standard of the Daily Mail, meaning somebody who can pronounce the word 'Marx' without spitting. Although, strictly speaking, he fails even by that criterion, since he does spit whenever he is saying anything.
@muslimmetalman
@muslimmetalman 3 жыл бұрын
worlds greatest CIA-funded "dissident"
@wassup1742
@wassup1742 3 жыл бұрын
Why is Stalin on the Thumbnail? People will think that Zizek sympathizes with Stalin an thats just wrong. He doesnt even talk about the Soviet Union, he talks about Czeckoslovakia and the pressure of the Soviet Union but not directly about the stalinist regime.
@schweizer93
@schweizer93 3 жыл бұрын
That actually triggered me (in a negative way, as a descendant of ČSSR refugees) and made me click the video. So it's not communist propaganda then and it's worth watching?
@wassup1742
@wassup1742 3 жыл бұрын
@@schweizer93 Im sorry my english isnt that good and i cant understand if you are serious or if you are sarcastic. I was just a little bit angry because I saw the thumbnail and the title of the video and it looked like zizek is telling stalinist propaganda even though he doenst.
@mustaineforpresident
@mustaineforpresident 3 жыл бұрын
Who cares. Stalin goes brr.
@hichaelhighers
@hichaelhighers 3 жыл бұрын
@@mustaineforpresident delete this
@gerardvila4685
@gerardvila4685 3 жыл бұрын
Stalin was dead then but his picture was still on the billboards. So the thumbnail wasn't as inaccurate as you think. And where do you think Putin's FSB (ex KGB, ex NKVD) comes from?
@valq10
@valq10 3 жыл бұрын
the description of this video erroneously refers to Stalin, but Stalin died 15 years before the normalisation period began.
@gerardvila4685
@gerardvila4685 3 жыл бұрын
Stalin died in 1953. But that didn't mean everything changed. It was still the Communist Party of the Soviet Union making the decisions, for instance who they needed to invade that year. Like Xi in China: he's not exactly a Maoist, but it was Mao who put the Chinese Communist Party in a position of absolute power.
@MrBezagreen
@MrBezagreen 3 жыл бұрын
Truth and Happiness don't always go together and Desire and happiness don't go together You have to be heroic enough to stand by your desire.
@TheRaveJunkie
@TheRaveJunkie 3 жыл бұрын
Heroic? Cute.
@MrBezagreen
@MrBezagreen 3 жыл бұрын
@@TheRaveJunkie thanks, I try
@TheJakee1000
@TheJakee1000 3 жыл бұрын
In the description you say normalisation occured under Stalin, but it began in 1968, 15 years after Stalin's death. This is a classic Brezhnev policy
@TeExorcizoConHardTecno
@TeExorcizoConHardTecno 3 жыл бұрын
MORE OF THIS CLIPSSS. MORE.
@farrider3339
@farrider3339 3 жыл бұрын
Precisely This °
@TheEyeball37
@TheEyeball37 3 жыл бұрын
Moar!
@prmfirestorm0863
@prmfirestorm0863 3 жыл бұрын
Sitting in quarantine and becoming more aware of how much I touch my face.
@TheEyeball37
@TheEyeball37 3 жыл бұрын
Why police yourself like that in your own home? Just wash your hands when you get home and be free, as free as you can be.
@nikitaburakov7580
@nikitaburakov7580 3 жыл бұрын
I am so happy you are back!
@srseki
@srseki 3 жыл бұрын
Happiness comes from comparison, you feel good when you are in a better situation than in the past, or you live better than other people nearby or above your level, or other people of other countries at the same or higher level. People feel unhappy when they are suffering, but if the government and media fool you that all people in other countries are more suffering, people feel much less pain (e.g. North Korea).
@booniesblues7310
@booniesblues7310 3 жыл бұрын
Nice you're uploading again!
@gandalfgreyhame4967
@gandalfgreyhame4967 3 жыл бұрын
Yay i love ur channel
@bibibrin5035
@bibibrin5035 3 жыл бұрын
May I add: the fourth element is freedom of movement. In Yugoslavia one could travel anywhere in the world.
@Dratisko
@Dratisko 3 жыл бұрын
So according to the description of video: Stalin, who died in 1953, exerted strong pressure on Czechoslovakia since 1968? I'm just glad you got your facts right. Keep up the good work.
@jn4003
@jn4003 3 жыл бұрын
:'D yeah should be Brezhnev
@klawiehr
@klawiehr 3 жыл бұрын
what was the german phrase he spoke at 5:16?
@rale5026
@rale5026 3 жыл бұрын
"Aber glücklich bin ich nicht" But happy I am not
@lf4434
@lf4434 3 жыл бұрын
It was a very similar situation in Poland in most of the communist era, really. Great analysis.
@luizhumberto8802
@luizhumberto8802 3 жыл бұрын
Just to correct the description: Stalin died in 1953, and the Prague Spring happened 15 years later, in 1968. Also, the official name of the country at this time was People's Republic of Chekolosvakia, if I am not remebering wrong.
@westboy52
@westboy52 3 жыл бұрын
@J S Your grandparents didn't get to rebuild anything after the war because everything got stolen.
@westboy52
@westboy52 3 жыл бұрын
@J S Yeah, you present some points I agree with. The 90s were definitely wild, but I believe that with such a radical change of the system, some naivity and instability can not only be expected, but is almost inevitable. However, I disagree with the sentiment that commies operated in some sort of a neutral hypothetical grey area. It was an oppressive regime! You can't just write all the atrocities off because people had jobs (also because unemployment was illegal and we can talk about the efficiency of some workers too) and had stuff to eat (kinda sucked if you wanted meat or some other basic groceries tho). While I'm not excusing what happened in the 90s - and the effect of that can still be seen today, in the form of oligarchs and general corruption (which I belive flourished under communism just as much) - I think it's very important not to understand the 90s as an indicative of the current system, which is objectively better. People are free, they're richer and they live better lives, which they were not allowed to live under communism.
@BartAnderson_writer
@BartAnderson_writer 3 жыл бұрын
One of Zizek's best
@rollingrockink1
@rollingrockink1 3 жыл бұрын
Happiness is the feeling before you want more Happiness... ~ D. Draper
@gabrielalbeldaochoa8234
@gabrielalbeldaochoa8234 3 жыл бұрын
The funny thing is that those arguments are very similar to the ones monarchists used (and use).
@dafyduck79
@dafyduck79 3 жыл бұрын
every totalitarian; people are dumb, i know whats the best for them
@gabrielalbeldaochoa8234
@gabrielalbeldaochoa8234 3 жыл бұрын
@@dafyduck79 I mean, ANY totalitarianism is better than the party democracy we live in. I prefer to have one corrupt person over 300 corrupt people that pretend to be enemies of each other and involve the population into their stupid government. If you want to involve a family with the rest of the families in the nation it better just be through their jobs, as this is the natural way.
@dafyduck79
@dafyduck79 3 жыл бұрын
@@gabrielalbeldaochoa8234 i like your last sentence i mean free society means, that people voluntarily exchange goods and services without valuating property rights, with big accent on voluntarily
@gabrielalbeldaochoa8234
@gabrielalbeldaochoa8234 3 жыл бұрын
@@dafyduck79 Society is mainly the union of families to carry out tasks that one family on its own can't. Capitalism makes of that exchange of goods a divine entity that is independent from society when it actually was born through society.
@canadiansmarties
@canadiansmarties 3 жыл бұрын
Zizek is my friend (in my head) and that makes me happy
@Tadders
@Tadders 3 жыл бұрын
What does it mean to "be heroic enough to stand by your desire?"
@joanofarc33
@joanofarc33 3 жыл бұрын
Wow. Everyone should watch “Dear Comrades” by by Andrei Konchalovsky a 2020 film because it illustrates perfectly how this notion Zizek refers to works in real time.
@adnanshahriar4435
@adnanshahriar4435 3 жыл бұрын
7:04 This kind of demonstrates how disconnected communists are from reality. It's all theories, theories, theories. Never have I been happier for *almost* getting something over having the thing. To the contrary, the fact that I was close to acquiring it but missed in the end elevates the ache even more.
@leibert6320
@leibert6320 3 жыл бұрын
Ok he missed the mark on that one , but how could you make a generalized statement about communism calling an opinion a " theory " communists came up with ?
@fuckamericanidiot
@fuckamericanidiot 3 жыл бұрын
The ideology is based on "People are miserable when they have too much (freedoms, money, material goods) - so why bother giving it to them?" There's some truth to that, but the Bolsheviks were a very hateful and cynical bunch of intellectuals who forced their hate and cynicism on tens of millions of people - very often (understatement of the 20th century) bringing them to a very early grave. Let people make their own mistakes!!!!!
@funnyhandle
@funnyhandle 3 жыл бұрын
@@fuckamericanidiot it is very clear to anyone reading that you’re pulling this out of your ass. you completely miss the point about what Zizek is saying but nonetheless generalize it as like “the official communist position” keep reading boy, stop embarrassing yourself in public
@fuckamericanidiot
@fuckamericanidiot 3 жыл бұрын
@@funnyhandle Thanks for adding nothing except to show that you're afraid to demonstrate how ignorant you are. Smart.
@n1nj4sp4rt4n
@n1nj4sp4rt4n 3 жыл бұрын
@@fuckamericanidiot lol and what did you say? "Bolsheviks were meanies!" I think you missed the point
@ivan200804
@ivan200804 3 жыл бұрын
People are happy, when they look around and they see that everyone is just like them.
@32gigs96
@32gigs96 3 жыл бұрын
@Elias Håkansson relax, you can be homogenous and still be anti racist and democratic.
@dannyrosenberg4175
@dannyrosenberg4175 3 жыл бұрын
As long as you didn’t question the powerful, you were…..”happy”
@vsenderov
@vsenderov 3 жыл бұрын
This is a way better analysis of happiness than any of Arthur C. Brooks stories.
@dancroitoru364
@dancroitoru364 2 жыл бұрын
It's just lame Hegelianism in the vein "man is made for history". I can assure you that adult life under a communist regime was horrible !
@garrett6076
@garrett6076 2 жыл бұрын
I am happiest every few years or so when the power goes out here for a day or so during a winter storm. Probably all the conditions he listed apply.
@mitjadrab6529
@mitjadrab6529 3 жыл бұрын
Welcome back! When did this talk take place?
@borg-borg-2015
@borg-borg-2015 3 жыл бұрын
Happiness is easy, just give me 3 free days and Vodka. For me, the question is - what is there, that is worth suffering for? For what should I 'give' myself? Then I can ask - will I be appreciated, respected and adequately compensated - is the struggle real.
@ashkanbagherzadeh8686
@ashkanbagherzadeh8686 3 жыл бұрын
This is a new record: he touched his face 7 times in 10 seconds (From 4:14 to 4:24)
@jamesmurphy9105
@jamesmurphy9105 3 жыл бұрын
Lol
@marko112kg
@marko112kg 11 ай бұрын
The idea of Prague Spring being a perfect dream because it was stopped reminds me of the Neil Gaiman comic Ramadan.
@casperchristiansen2458
@casperchristiansen2458 3 жыл бұрын
MY CONTINUAL SUBSCRIPTION WAS NOT IN VEIN!!!
@Ulfnarr
@Ulfnarr 3 жыл бұрын
IT WAS IN ARTERY INSTEAD!!!
@martinrea8548
@martinrea8548 3 жыл бұрын
Does he slobber in Slovenian too?
@redgladius9919
@redgladius9919 3 ай бұрын
"Paradise has to be at an appropriate distance. If its too easily accessible you see its the same shit as where we are." I love Zizek.
@arunalokechakraborty5110
@arunalokechakraborty5110 3 жыл бұрын
back❤️
@wetweg1165
@wetweg1165 3 жыл бұрын
anyone know what he says in German at 5:15?
@josef9988
@josef9988 3 жыл бұрын
wow it's actually mental some people think like this.
@root......
@root...... Жыл бұрын
"love is a catastrophic", this is so true.
@nhajas1
@nhajas1 2 жыл бұрын
So what if standing by your desire also brings you happiness? does this imply a skewed relationship with the truth? or is the resulting happiness not understood as happiness in lacanian terms?
@QuinnArgo
@QuinnArgo 2 жыл бұрын
In Lacanian terms, you suffer from original trauma and desire the object that has been taken from you, the thing that will make you whole. The reality, of course, is that your alienation is existential and there is no way to mend the wound that is your subjectivity. So once you actually get a grasp on the object you thought you were missing, you are filled with emptiness because you realize it doesn't actually make you whole. Surely you've experienced this in some way, where you saved up for something, like a new car or even just a TV, and once you got it and realized you still have desires, you feel kind of empty, worse than before, when you were striving towards something. This is why, in standing by your desire, you're supposed to act out a failure, so that the actual object of your desire is immortalized as the dream you just missed. The reality of the object (be it "real" communism, the labour party winning the election, or even just the new TV you've been saving for) will sooner or later reveal itself to be crooked, because reality is crooked.
@FayieMo
@FayieMo 8 ай бұрын
I disagree with his definition of happiness, what he describes is some superficial happiness but what about true fulfillment? Not that it is perceived at all times but I can say that I have perceived it at times that were quite different from the state that he describes. To me it is in the moment when I make progress, when I go beyond what I thought I could reach, like reaching a new level, getting a new perspective. E.g., I am truly happy while watching this videos and getting a new insight... But at the same time also some kind of inner calmness, not necessarily a constant state but something that shimmers through even in difficult moments because I know I can take a deep breath and it is all not so bad and I know I can manage whatever is going to come. Some sense of security but more from the inside. Any thoughts on this anyone?
@diegomaradona5452
@diegomaradona5452 3 жыл бұрын
Great speech
@NessieAndrew
@NessieAndrew 3 жыл бұрын
Finally, new Zizekposting!
@hamburgerdan101
@hamburgerdan101 9 ай бұрын
Important distinction is the soviet system. Definitely not what marx had in mind.
@anaveragechannel468
@anaveragechannel468 3 жыл бұрын
His second argument is sort of faulty because in a democracy you are free to not involve yourself in politics. And on the contrary, wanting to get involved in politics in a communist country and being unable to do so creates unhappiness.
@MermaidTyrone
@MermaidTyrone Жыл бұрын
But the point was more simple than that. People like to blame others and feel like they themselves didn't contribute to failure. People don't like responsibility. But this is impossible in liberalism because you are made to feel like as if you have a voice and you change things by voting or lobbying. But when inevitably something fails then you are made to feel guilty yourself because you decided who is in power. Not voting is a vote in itself, because it affects the result. People try to emulate this in liberalism by always blaming the other party and pretending that your party is perfect, but everyone is self aware enough to understand it is a lie. It can't approach the pure happiness felt in a communist country where you can, without guilt, blame those in power, knowing you can't influence it.
@raulvelazquezvillalba6530
@raulvelazquezvillalba6530 3 жыл бұрын
After hearing Mr. Zizek speak one thing is clear, happiness is not the path to progress. If anything, it's the opposite.
@NIL0S
@NIL0S 3 жыл бұрын
Pure ideology *sniffle*
@RuiLuz
@RuiLuz 3 жыл бұрын
They were 'happier' because they had a defined purpose, whatever that is...
@TheBalticKing
@TheBalticKing 3 жыл бұрын
Missed this man 👨
@ketamanpegaso9280
@ketamanpegaso9280 3 жыл бұрын
can anybody tell me what says in german?
@elekkr
@elekkr 3 жыл бұрын
I have settled for "peace of mind " instead of "happiness" happiness is a nightmare so is eternal life .
@markiegogh2333
@markiegogh2333 3 жыл бұрын
keep uploading video,plz
@Montezuma0
@Montezuma0 3 жыл бұрын
also... nice weather helps ;)
@ChokedByHalo1
@ChokedByHalo1 3 жыл бұрын
i like how he doesnt claim to know the answers and do exact opposite, come up with more and more question, which are very often valid. Food for brain
@mikehydropneumatic2583
@mikehydropneumatic2583 3 жыл бұрын
Spot on Tsipras, he knew the Greeks weren"t paying their taxes.
@dancroitoru364
@dancroitoru364 2 жыл бұрын
Clearly according to Zizek, life in a Gulag becomes happy if you manage to organize above starvation level ... Everything is possible with some Hegelian magic.
@gaminggodxxlx5991
@gaminggodxxlx5991 3 жыл бұрын
Turn captions on and you won't regret it 🤣
@rustyshackleford4801
@rustyshackleford4801 3 жыл бұрын
Zizek broke the auto generator!
@prmfirestorm0863
@prmfirestorm0863 3 жыл бұрын
was about to comment the same thing. laughed so hard.
@Bagatellamusic
@Bagatellamusic 3 жыл бұрын
Slavoj is a great Coronian reminder: ”Don't touch your face!”
@jamesmurphy9105
@jamesmurphy9105 3 жыл бұрын
Love it !
@uttaradit2
@uttaradit2 3 жыл бұрын
The human condition and entropy precludes a stable state of mind.
@jeffhayes6843
@jeffhayes6843 3 жыл бұрын
I’m Sorry, the more I listen to this guy the more he just seems to talk in circles. I’m sure there is a language barrier of some sort so that when he speaks in English it just comes out like word salad without ever coming to anything resembling a point.
@Orgotheonemancult
@Orgotheonemancult 3 жыл бұрын
No, bro, you just don't get it. It's HEGELIAN. You're too stupid to understand. Here's another meme about how he talks funny. Now just surrender yourself to Chinese autocracy.
@alessandrocoppede3066
@alessandrocoppede3066 2 жыл бұрын
He's so wise
@fernandofontenla8466
@fernandofontenla8466 3 жыл бұрын
He is so wise!
@thegeneral333
@thegeneral333 3 жыл бұрын
If what he is saying is the case then it appears that fully fledged successful and true communism (where we people get what they want) would be a nightmare.
@yunesbb
@yunesbb Жыл бұрын
he is almost literally describing Syria in the 90's!!
@Conn30Mtenor
@Conn30Mtenor 3 жыл бұрын
Because all those defectors just wanted blue jeans?
@sandman5211
@sandman5211 2 жыл бұрын
That is exactly what Mussolini said to the people: You are free as long you don't act against the State.If you do don't be surprised of a visit from the boys in black.
@nayash4744
@nayash4744 3 жыл бұрын
As ALWAYS the title is misleading
@Shoharnaaze
@Shoharnaaze 3 жыл бұрын
Is it just me or do you also get nervous if you look at him for too long? He touches his nose way too often!
@jamesmurphy9105
@jamesmurphy9105 3 жыл бұрын
I know can't pay attention to what he is suggesting
@rincewindtwoflower3989
@rincewindtwoflower3989 10 ай бұрын
"I want to go a step further" "What? You Slavoj? Really?"
@karolkupec2044
@karolkupec2044 3 жыл бұрын
Yes look at Cuba 🇨🇺 today people are very happy to move to US, I used to love there still have nightmares. Bunch of deep bs about living in Czechoslovakia and happiness, people could not wait to get out of that paradise
@Cuyt24
@Cuyt24 3 жыл бұрын
Yes. My girlfriend's mom left North Korea. She almost died and was shot at trying to leave the worker's paradise with free healthcare, free education and guaranteed employment. They don't pay you, but guaranteed employment harvesting rice.
@karolkupec2044
@karolkupec2044 3 жыл бұрын
Yes I had free everything and employment was 100% people that refused to work went to jail and worked there for free, that is wonderful socialist solution. God bless you all
@Cuyt24
@Cuyt24 3 жыл бұрын
@@karolkupec2044 I am glad you made it out!! People are so ignorant. That type of society is inhumane. People need to own things. People need to trade. The myth of "the people" controlling the means of production is impossible. There is always inequality even in a communist utopia because people have different levels of intelligence and ability based on genetics.
@Y2KTOKKIE
@Y2KTOKKIE Жыл бұрын
Happiest chasing a goal.
@Yet.Another.Rapper.KiG.V2
@Yet.Another.Rapper.KiG.V2 3 жыл бұрын
I agree with much but I disagree with much. I am not happy by my state of always missing; it is maddening. It is because I am aware. It is the key Zizek is missing: people are much more self aware and world aware than a century before; everyone puts on a mask and swallows it deep but you can't unsee shit. And it eats them from the inside. Still, I see a lot of what he's saying.
@nil981
@nil981 2 жыл бұрын
Zizeks lisp has a life of it's own.
@aplaceforthelonely
@aplaceforthelonely 3 жыл бұрын
Hey Slavoj Žižecki I love you
@imicca
@imicca 3 жыл бұрын
I disagree. It feels like he has never lived under communism …. my country was part of USSR And he’s three points of what makes you happy doesn’t really apply in practical sense lots of people cheated and actually sold items which means engaged in capitalist system lots of people bought for him products that were illegal in USSR any nowhere you have a private life, snitches are everywhere. Peace is very relative term under communism
@mmkw5621
@mmkw5621 3 жыл бұрын
Most relatives i know miss communism
@imicca
@imicca 3 жыл бұрын
@@mmkw5621 then they dont understand that it was not possible to keep it long term. my grandma also misses it because my country flourished and improved under USSR but slowly cracks started to be seen and system collapsed
@anthonyhyne2574
@anthonyhyne2574 3 жыл бұрын
There's a spider in my mine.
@Nogi753
@Nogi753 3 жыл бұрын
Stalin did not intervene, it was Brezhnev. The invasion happened in 1968, 15 years after Stalin's death. But Brezhnev was still a strong stalinist.
@austro-hungarianegonomist9049
@austro-hungarianegonomist9049 3 жыл бұрын
nah he continued the khurschev-esque reforms but wanted to rule and not normalize as much
@eternalblizzardalt9708
@eternalblizzardalt9708 3 жыл бұрын
Slavoj "and so on and so on" Zizek.
@alexneville8168
@alexneville8168 2 жыл бұрын
I want to be free to be miserable.
@SiriusB88
@SiriusB88 6 ай бұрын
It is curious how Dr. Huberman now claims that dopamine is actually generated during the pursuit of a goal and thus recommends not to celebrate success in order to avoid a huge drop 🤔 neurosciences and lacanian psychoanalysis agreeing with each other? 😂
@therearenoshortcuts9868
@therearenoshortcuts9868 3 жыл бұрын
interesting but this kind of happiness itself is not sustainable
@pawekopytek7596
@pawekopytek7596 3 жыл бұрын
Holy hell, I've just heard the worst take on happiness.
@TRG29338
@TRG29338 3 жыл бұрын
My favorite Dwemer logician.
@raffaelepigneri1413
@raffaelepigneri1413 3 жыл бұрын
He generated subs in Dutch, god (well..) bless him!!! 😆😆😆
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