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ZIZ187 Ideology as Augmented Reality (15.05.2017)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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Do You Want a More Transparent Democratic Europe?

I like to complicate, but the last thing is a very sad one. You know, politics is basically risky. There is no simple way, like, oh, we make a democratic vote and so on, and we decide. I still believe in democracy, universality, all that. But it's difficult to apply this directly because the problem is how far do you go in this? Yes, I would be tempted to apply this literally, which means let's organize elections, and then when we get the result, the opposite. If you don't want it, you know. For example, I annoyed my good friend, Alimba, who proposed that formula, which is beautiful,

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