
ZIZ008 The Euthanasia of Tolerant Reason (01.05.2006)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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The Ominous Dimension of Hypocrisy
I claim that the ominous dimension is not so much that secretly they are doing it more, but to cut it. The unwritten rules of what is admissible not are unfortunately changing today. When certain things where people are no longer ashamed of publicly speaking about certain things, it's never simply better in the sense of less hypocrisy. I would have the full right to tell you, but if you really meant only that it was boring and stupid, why didn't you simply say that it was interesting? You know what I mean? And it's the same with torture. That's my fear. If they really mean it, exceptionally we have to torture people. Why don't they, why then
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