Slavoj Zizek, Ecology without Nature, Athens 2007 (6/6)

[hehehe685]

zizek should have given us an answer. if he can frame the debate differently he should be able to see some solutions that haven't been thought of yet. this is especially true if the threat really is an important as he says. i guess he's like every other american and doesnt see the big problem either.

[frigidfruit]

...Zizek is Slovenian, you idiot.

[zvexevz]

The things is, we already have the answer! We know that if we radically cut our emissions and our polution we can fend off the ecological menace. The question here is of course why don't we? In the 90s and early 00s everyone was saying it was because there was no public awareness. But now there's massive public awareness, and yet still little or no action. The point here is that though we may explicitly state things like "CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL!", in our everyday experience, we don't believe it.

[TheMariborchan]

No, we don't have the answer, because the question is not simply "what should change so polution would stop?" but "how can we get people to act that way?"

[leftwhilden]

getting lacanian on the gaian mind... he had interesting things to say about ideology, tolerance and i like zizek because he's funny, but maybe he's too european and should try dmt or meditation...a new style of thinking.

[FroSanchez]

"to put it very naively, we live in difficult times, but what can a philosopher like me tell you? i cannot give you answers. i don't know what we should do. but i can only make you see, not what is the answer, but how, maybe, the way we approach the problem, the way we ask the question, is part of the problem. i can correct questions. as gilles deleuze (you know french guy) said very nicely, 'there are not only wrong answers; there are also wrong questions'. here we can say a lot today."