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ZIZ297 UNHOLY ALLIANCES TODAY (17.03.2023)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Importance of Awakening

The father literally awakened so that he could go on dreaming. He confronted in the dream the son reproving him and felt himself terribly guilty because he was responsible for his son's death. This was too traumatic what he encountered in the dream so he awakened into reality in order to avoid the true trauma. And I think it is the same today in the West with quite a lot of what goes on in the so called a woke movement political correctness and so on. Their true goal is to allow us to continue our safe sleep and ignore the threat that the world tries new conservative battles poses to our basic emancipatory values. So of course we are today in deep crisis. Three four threats pandemic

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