The National Choice Theory

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I think even in hard sciences practically no great inventions were produced in this place way let's train the experts from Einstein onwards or really great bread where what we call in the national choice theory necessary by products you know like collateral damage. I'm not saying most of us should study or like at that point in Oxford their point of honor was that even privately they were speaking Latin to each other until early 20th century. The reason I don't like Amazon com is that this is like this new expert education you buy there mostly only books you already in advance want to buy like you but I cannot even imagine such a thing.

Radical philosopher, polymath, film star, cult icon, and author of over 30 books, Slavoj Žižek is one of the most controversial and leading contemporary public intellectuals, simultaneously acclaimed as the ‘Elvis of cultural theory’ and denounced as ‘the most dangerous philosopher in the West’. In this special lecture for Intelligence Squared from July 2011, Žižek argues that global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis and that our collective responses to economic Armageddon correspond to the five stages of grief – ideological denial, explosions of anger, attempts at bargaining, followed by depression and finally acceptance of change. Referencing everything from Kafka, the "Hollywood Marxism" of Avatar, the Arab Spring and WikiLeaks, he presents a roadmap for finding a way beyond the madness.

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