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ZIZ294 Why Do We Enjoy Feeling Ashamed (01.11.2022)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Paradox of Vogue and Cancell Culture

Cancell culture is a retreat into a cultural fortress, whose discursive fanaticism leaves intact and even strengthens the resistance of the majority to it. I claim precisely that behind this mask of fanaticism, stringency, it's a compromise. It doesn't really change social reality. So how to break out of this cycle? We got an unexpected hint from Ukraine, where something happened recently, which may appear a step further in our moral decay. On October 13, it was revealed that more than 15,000 Ukrainians have planned to organize a mass orgy in case Putin launched a nuclear attack on Ukraine. How again, conservatives are horrified by this idea if you teach young children about LGBT,.

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