What's the Alternate Scenario?

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I'd like rea unverlii, what's the alternate scenario where you write books which are not so much pastiche but bring together of desperate elements. What has to happen for that scenario to come about? I'm not saying it will happen, but what dies that science fiction world look like? For me, if i retanapore, i retire, and i'm not lying to you. Two three times i've written about it, i want to retire to the part of norway which is not even norway. Long er ben swalbart island, that's my ideal place. It's half empty, nothing there. And it's very good prospects for survival.

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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