I'm Against Happiness

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Happiness means no responsibility, a relatively comfortable life. In the west you have commodification, alienation. Here you take it easy. It's more poor and soon and so on. That's why i'm against happiness. Commonism is easy in a way. You always have an excuse. Yes? System scrooge, you lie and you're always well,. This is my big argument against happiness. Do you agree? Wif you now, like my starzy observer, you have your list. I've read all your notes. No, all your yes, all your notes I've read. The last epoch where the ruling nomenclatura half still believed in

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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