
ZIZ011 Fear Thy Neighbor as Thyself (26.11.2007)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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The Problem With Implicit Unspoken Rules
Habits are an extremely interesting dialectical category they're not as simple as it appears. Every rules for structural reasons which in laconian terms can be nicely explained as the inconsistency of the big other and so on every rules need metarules higher level rules which tell you how to relate to explicit rules. The problem is that rules are never simply rules we have often rules which explicitly prohibit something but the message between the lines is solicitation like most of the sexual pro-prohibitions work in this way.
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