
ZIZ012 Ecology – A New Opium for the Masses (28.11.2007)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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The Platoonic Duality of the Chaos of Empirical Reality
The eternal idea, which is not any kind of deep, substantial idea, is this miracle of surface. Recall the old Catholic strategy, how to guard men against the temptation of the flesh. And this idea of imagining all the durders is precisely the very form of the escape from the real. The same thing I think happens in pornography. It's like a plumber comes home fixes the whole and then the wife says, but I have another whole to be fixed, can you feel it? You are embarrassed. People laugh at me that I repeat in my usual theory about pornography, this fact how pornography has this fear of over identification,.
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