
ZIZ014 On Violence (12.09.2008)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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The Mystery of Inter-Passivity
Laughter on TV is not automatically to trigger your laughter, it works so that literally the TV set laughs for you. It's a much more mysterious phenomenon than it may appear. And my thesis back to Donald Trump's health topic is that it's the same with beliefs. We need, as it were, another one to believe for us. From this is how our rituals function. For example, take Santa Claus. I mean, of course, nobody believes. You find him? He proposed a wonderful category of inter-passivity. The idea is that we like in what we philosophers call cunning of reason, that we like, manipulate others. So you see that others are active for you
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