A lot of common everyday Joeās are trapped in the fool archetype. I myself vary between a few based on events and my control or lack there of is dependent upon the severity of said event(s).
I have never really been able to ālive in the momentā I accept the dark for what it is and I donāt try to blind myself with over-illumination as the fool would seem to do. I have been entrapped as well but I would say fur to being young and naive more so than willful entrapment due to fear. I live in the past to understand and live in the future for I understand change, there is no present for it is swept away in the wind immediately.
I asked him after āif you wanted to go buy a book right now and educate yourself, whatās stopping you? Is that Satan also dumbing down the population? As I have said, it is ignorance of which creates the cycle of evil. Not a symbol that depicts everything except evil or āsatanā as you call it.ā
iām not surprised that zizek let peterson live, even considering the dangerous popularity that amateur windbag has among millennial college students. itās due to zizekās generally congenial nature and his lack of hostilityā¦ or perhaps a recognition that petersonās rivalry wasnāt something to be taken very seriously. the disconnect between the audience and the debate occurs when itās realized that zizekās ideas are something to be chewed on and digested, while petersonās diatribe alway consists of shallow, quick blanket statements that have profound effects on the listeners. he simplifies what cannot be simplified (but must be chewed on for more time that is allowed)ā¦ and for that very reason he is better received by the audience; he is more easily understood because he says nothing substantial.
peterson turns a subject that belongs to a more technical environment into something like a pop-theory, continues to systematically misrepresent marxism, and repeats the same old informal fallacies in his criticism of the failed ācommunistā (in parentheses because they werenāt true marxist states) countries while conveniently avoiding any mention of the atrocities committed by capitalistic imperialism. but this is to be expected; this is all the right has ever done, and can ever do. i think zizek realizes this and rather then devoting much time to defending marxism, he instead just letās peterson have it as a friendly gesture.
but really, itās painful to listen to peterson talk. i cringe at least once every 27 seconds and can barely manage to keep up with the number of ambiguous comments he fires off one after the other.
i guess it was decent though, if only because i got the opportunity to watch zizek play with peterson a little bit.
i fear there will be more of these pop-philosophers like peterson in the decades to come. philosophy itself as an institution has been finished for a century, so all that is left are these post-modern caricatures and sophists whoās rhetoric contains nothing but pathos and ethos. the express purpose being to persuade and convince a generation whoās confusion is really irrelevant anyway.
lol go to 1:46:50. finally zizek smacks that asshat. we had to wait almost two hours to see it. thatās crazy. zizek couldāve been doing this the entire time.
No wonder, as Zizek has to repeat his question four times so he can understand it himself. Or just harvest some more laughter from the imbeciles (Marxists) in the room.
He did write one good book, Zizek. I read through six of them, mostly its repetitive trash. But he had some sane things to say about Heidegger in one of them.
Commendable how Peterson always manages to be the adult in the room with these spasmodic Marxists. Theyāre more worrisome than Christians speaking on tongues.
Zizekās mind is too fast for his mouth, thatās all. But his spasmodic demeanor is one of his greatest features, I think. The guy loves what he does. He gets into that shit.
In his life he said one interesting couple of three things. That was in this one book I wonāt mention as someone will shit on it.
Ive read through about six of his works and they got increasingly Hegel-like.
Ever read the Phenomenology of the Spirit? Zizek just copied the method and kept going doing the exact same thing like twenty times.
I never found any sense when the guy talks. He is really a simpleton. He just got some bad but infectious ideas from Hegel and a few good ones from Heidegger and, admittedly, Lacan too. That was quite cool. What he did to Lacan.
That Marxist shit is like, when someone shoots some one dead, and someone says āhe used a Smith & Wessonā, and Zizek goes: āwell tell me, where, where, where, where itch this Shhhcmitssh, and where isscchch this Wessssschcon?ā
That probably hurt marx more than me, even if heās rolling in his grave right now. These āmodernā so called marxists are even worse than the modern nietzscheans. My sympathy for ol karl just went up a couple notches after watching that video. Poor bastard. He was a couple hundred years too earlyā¦ or too late.