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ZIZ009 Why Only an Atheist Can Believe (10.11.2006)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Importance of Belief

Ideology is not so much our explicit thesis. But there are more than ever maybe beliefs here, although we would never publicly admit that they are our beliefs. Nils Bohr gave the correct answer to Einstein: Don't tell God what to do. That's ideology today. You don't have to believe in democracy. You practice it. And your beliefs are out there in practice. Let me give you an old story about European toilets where excrement disappears into water as soon as possible. I'm sorry if I offend some of you with this scatological ending. An obscene endpoint. If you had travelled around Europe, you'd see how different things were now. The whole thing

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