Iwan Have a Nice Time, Right?

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Solar power can really save us. We could have the government subsidized in a better battery technology. And o i can hall you from my personal contact with liba sat, they don't mean it as an ironic spectacle. They're very serious in their harsh line. That's what i like about them. Don't be afraid. Whenever they're popular, is o never the right. I know what the right wingers, at least in europe, are listening. It's not the german version of liba. There was some influence. Do you know ramstein erop lings links? Theyare left. But still, you know where you i get your point.

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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