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ZIZ012 Ecology – A New Opium for the Masses (28.11.2007)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Superico Game

I think even if it personally from Bush's side was a rather stupid sinice season, there is a moment of truth in it. Most people who demonstrated did it because they knew that probably this will not have any influence on actual state politics. Simon Critry has this formula, resist Bombard dosing power with impossible demands, he is simply playing the Superico game. Every brutal politician likes to have another one who is kind of idealist, who wants to be impossible and unfortunately we cannot have it. It took me some time to get the formula. You know who was already aware of it? Didn't your great commentator, blah, blah, Walter Littmann? He wrote a

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