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ZIZ231 Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism (with Jordan Peterson) (19.04.2019)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Lesson of Today's Terrorism

Once traditional authority loses its substantial power, it is not possible to return to it. Conservative thinkers claim that the origin of our crisis is the loss of our reliance on some transcendent divinity or higher value. If we are left to ourselves, if everything is historically conditioned and relative, then there is nothing preventing us from indulging in our lowest tendencies. Tramp is the ultimate post modern president. And if we compare tramp with burney sanders, tramp is apost modern politician at its purest. All such return sare, to day, a post modern fake.

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