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ZIZ290 What is freedom today? (27.05.2022)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Paradox of Knowing Your Fate

The message of this story is a beautiful one. It's not that means the means is impossible to avoid, but trying to twist free of it will only tighten the grip of death. What if you knowing about your fate and trying to avoid it is how what you think your fate realizes itself? The paradox is that if the parents of Edipus were to say, okay, if it happens, it happens - there would be no Edipus complex. Here against you in Ocarina were doing the right thing. But I think that we are caught in this paradox today. That how we know what is awaiting us,. Media are telling us all the time, ecological crisis, global warming

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