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ZIZ246 Why I Am Still A Communist (07.12.2019)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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Ideology at Its Worst

The idea that we should renounce traditional life, the arrogant life and become again respectful children of our mother nature is wrong. What all the talk about how we humanity pose a threat to the life on the earth really amounts to is our worry about our own fate. Earth itself is indifferent to it. Just imagine all the catastrophes that happens on earth before humanity. Where does oil come from? Where nature is completely chaotic? Don't play the game of returning to balance. That's the problem. There is no natural balance.

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