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ZIZ014 On Violence (12.09.2008)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Tension Between Expressed Beliefs and Ideology

The old image of ideology was you have some explicit beliefs and then privately let it know, oh, I'm not crazy as that. Today is the opposite. What was once private is now public and vice versa. Privately, we like to play that we are not crazy to believe in some stupid ideology. We just, what is ideology today, explicitly? Some kind of vaguely Dalai Lama spiritualized head onism. It's no longer do this sacrifice yourself in spite of what Republicans are saying. They just react to it.

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