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ZIZ013 Left in Dark Times (16.09.2008)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

CHAPTER

The Power of Charity

I think that there is a good use of the shame, a bonus Angela, of the scripple, of the shame in politics. I prefer that the man is less stupid than his work than the reverse. To us, Carnegie, to give a little will be never bad. If we help Carnegie to empty a little his pocket, it will. He did it himself. No, he does not do it himself. He does it because he is under moral blackmail of some opinion leader, of some journalist, of some titles of the TV and so on. That is never bad. When it replaces politics, it's a disaster. And I saw that myself. You should know this.

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