The Importance of Ideology

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Ideology is not decided at this level so that if it's not true but just prejudice is its ideology. Even if most of what Nazis were telling about the Jews where to be true anti-Semitism would still have been a reprehensible ideology. I think that we can fight ideology because again breaking out of ideology is not this question of aren't we all caught in some ideologies Can we break out into a totally objective view of how things really are?

Radical philosopher, polymath, film star, cult icon, and author of over 30 books, Slavoj Žižek is one of the most controversial and leading contemporary public intellectuals, simultaneously acclaimed as the ‘Elvis of cultural theory’ and denounced as ‘the most dangerous philosopher in the West’. In this special lecture for Intelligence Squared from July 2011, Žižek argues that global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis and that our collective responses to economic Armageddon correspond to the five stages of grief – ideological denial, explosions of anger, attempts at bargaining, followed by depression and finally acceptance of change. Referencing everything from Kafka, the "Hollywood Marxism" of Avatar, the Arab Spring and WikiLeaks, he presents a roadmap for finding a way beyond the madness.

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