What Can I Learn From Norway?

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Many parts of the world could learn from whatever has been done here. I would like to learn from norway, but i would like even more if you give me your natural resources to earn from the oil and then divest from fossil for though i can tmo en it for you here. The good thing about singapis the dicken no natural resor is no? Well, they do a lot of refining there, so refining, yes. But what what mate made it? Is it a kind of one incidental conjunction that wat i would have made me said about singapore, of this chinese proclivity to hard work and english legislation or what? There must have been some unique

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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