
ZIZ008 The Euthanasia of Tolerant Reason (01.05.2006)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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The Neighbor of the Chicken
"I tend almost to agree with those who claim that the neighbor... Don't you think this is a kind of a Christ figure, but almost authentic one? Not in any mystical sense, because I tried to play the game once with friends and to locate the exact moments when this guy appears. It is usually, if I remember it correctly, at the moment of crucial decision or catastrophe," he says. "For me, divine figure today is that he sees a catastrophe, this Christ figure there, but can't do anything."
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