Hegel's Problem Is the Opposite One

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Hegel is not a crazy optimist. As bad as things are, you should see a chance for the better. No matter how good an idea or a project is, we can be sure that it will turn wrong somehow. But there is a chance that you turned round into salvation. This is my vision to day. Yes, we are approaching a crisis, but we cannot simply revitalize the twentieth century communism. We shouldn't play these chip games just corrupt at staling and even did you notice how markis are often even races here? They put the blame on rashies too close to asia, oisa, asiatic barbarism,. which is responsible for it?"

This bonus episode features audio from the Holberg Debate in Bergen, Norway between Tyler and Slavoj Žižek held on December 7, 2019. They discuss the reasons Slavoj (still) considers himself a Communist, why he calls The Handmaid’s Tale “nostalgia for the present,” what he likes about Greta Thunberg, what Marx got right about the commodification of beliefs, his concerns about ecology and surveillance in communist states like China today, the reasons academia should maintain its ‘useless character,’ his beginnings as a Heideggerian, why he is distrustful of liberal optimism, the “Fukuyama dilemma” we face, the importance of “empty manners,” and more.

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Recorded December 7th, 2019 Other ways to connect

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