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ZIZ001 A Lacanian Plea for Fundamentalism (18.09.2000)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Eccentricity of European Civilization

I claim that this eccentricity of European civilization not in any tricky deconstructionist sense but simply in the terms that we always think that wisdom is somewhere else hidden to well to be recaptured through violent effort struggle and so on. The authentic Tibetans always claim that they can understand everything just this they cannot understand why do we Europeans look for the wisdom elsewhere. Why because now I can go because they are true fundamentalists and as such the only almost I would claim authentic multiculturalist truly tolerable. If you if you read the batons themselves the point is we are the center of the world we have what we want we don't envy the others.

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