Slavoj Zizek - Israel, Palestine & the Future

"Precisely.....and so on and so on"....... Legend 😂

Contextualizing something doesn't mean relativizing it!!!! That is brilliantly said. ❤❤❤

"Gulag for life!" - Slavoj Zizek I need a poster of this.

Thank you for bringing up Assange. We must demand his freedom.

Profound thoughts between sniffles. Thank you Zizek, love ya!

Slavoj Žižek explains why we need the philosophy (as an art of radical questioning) today.

We live in a time where collective people have had enough, but are still unable to dream reaching for the most reactive and simplest of solutions to having enough. This is a dangerous combination.

😂😂😂😂 when you fall in love you retrospectively create the reasons. Absolute genius

There is no freedom without self discipline. That sums it all up for me.

Just started the video, but it becomes undeniable, that Zizek will be a future reference for soberness.

49:35 contextualization is not relativization “People claim I’m relativizing what Hamas did in the south of Israel. No. Contextualizing something doesn’t mean to relativize it—it means to see the ground out of which a thing like this was possible to emerge.”

This is a key point, because it allows any kind of manipulation: Define "terrorist" if you are sincere and truthfull. Using double standards when the term is used is a proof of dishonesty and hypocrisy...

The answers to his lightning round questions are some of his best, he really works really well when given strict time constraints

I just love this dude so much

Zizek put peterson in rehab lol

I just need to say hi to all of you, the insights are telling of the people listening. Salut 👋

This speech by Zizek reminded me of a curious episode that happened to me that I like to reflect on, but that I hadn't told anyone about yet. Around the end of the pandemic, I decided to stop by a shopping mall before returning home. I wanted to do something special: have my favorite coffee at a Coffee Shop I used to go to. Sitting in front of the cash register, I was enjoying my coffee when a man approached with his 3 year old daughter. He stood in line to order something at the Coffee Shop, the little girl turned to me and smiled. The little girl was holding two huge colorful lollipops, one in each hand. Then she did something unimaginable that caught my attention. Instead of licking the lollipops, she started trying to fit the handle of one inside the handle of the other. Because of the pandemic slaughter promoted by the Bolsonaro government and the bad economic effects that the pandemic had on my life, I was a little depressed. Watching the girl, an unpleasant thought occurred to me. "This girl will manage to drop one or both lollipops on the floor and start crying. When she does, her father will be angry. This little family tragedy will ruin the coffee moment that I'm enjoying." Seconds after I had this sad thought, after several failed attempts and some adorable faces of frustration, the little girl finally managed to fit the handle of one lollipop inside the handle of the other. As she did so, she gave such a captivating smile of happiness that I immediately felt ashamed for having been so pessimistic. She then undid what she had done, just before her father grabbed her arm and took her to one of the tables in the Coffee Shop. He didn't see anything that happened. That little feat turned into the secret I share with that little girl I don't know and will probably never meet again. Here are the reflections that that episode has suggested to me to this day. The little girl's motivation for acting that way was probably natural curiosity "Can I do that?" She obviously wasn't worried about the outcome her experience would have on me. The lesson she learned and celebrated with a smile was "Yes, I can do this!" The lesson she gave me was "Wow... My primary mistake in imagining a different outcome was projecting onto that little girl unpleasant feelings that I felt myself and that had nothing to do with what was really happening." The radiant happiness expressed by the girl in accomplishing something she wanted to do (something incidentally very different from what we imagine a child should do with lollipops) is something that makes me think. We may well consider that everything in the world is lost and that the tragic future is inevitable, but small incidents like the one I witnessed and narrated here irrefutably prove that perhaps things can happen differently. It doesn't really matter how we imagine things are or will be, the space for hope for new happy experiences arises whenever children enter this world. Perhaps the thoughtful and pessimistic Zizek needs to witness something like what I witnessed. The question is: When something unexpected occurs, will Zizek be able to look up and openly observe and appreciate what is happening in front of his eyes here and now instead of continuing to project into the future things from the distant past that already occurred in a different place?

ZiZek should have a dialogue with Norman Finkelstein about Palestine and Isreal.

wow, what a person! truly a great one of our time

I liked how Zizek did not go along with the interviewer in mocking Jordan Peterson. That was gentlemanly. I'm not a JP fan. That's the point; we should be civil. I wanted to hear more about that conversation after the debate, but the interviewer wanted to get his jokes out. He did the same with his dumb "autocorrect" line right after Zizek made a profound point, and it didn't even fit what Z said.