Slavoj Zizek: Far Right and Anti-Immigrant Politicians on the Rise in Europe 2 of 2

[NixonisLord]

"OCD"? Why can't he just be a slob? Why dignify his lack of hygiene with a title? You can be OC-just use Kleenex or get a handkerchief. And people on the Left used to be suspicious of those with money talking about the lives of the poor-they used to call them "Parlour Reds" or "Limousine Liberals"; are you now so desperate that you'll allow anyone to talk for you? What happened to "empowerment" and "letting the poor speak for themselves"? This is just another form of paternalism.

[NixonisLord]

Why doesn't this man get some Kleenex?  And stop drinking coffee before going on TV! Pete Seeger is about as "ordinary" as Goodman or Michael Moore: rich people who claim to speak for the poor but whose lives are intensely privileged. Useless and self-absorbed. Like Zizek.

[SuperLiquidsquid]

Quite a fallacy cslad1.  Quite a fallacy.

[philbone1975]

I wouldn't mind running into this fella in a darkened alley or vacant parking lot !

[Exxxid]

@philbone1975 So you could have one on one discussion, without anybody interrupting, huh? :P

[philbone1975]

@Exxxid ..... It would be more of a one sided concussion....Oops I mean "discussion" or should I say blindsided instead of one sided .

[agniky]

@philbone1975 I would immediately engage in the wildest speculative argumentations with him. he's the greatest leftist alive.

[philbone1975]

@agniky I would not be surprised that an idiot would want to . Stay in russia or where ever your from , you piece of shit .

[MsRasput]

In Germany, 40% would welcome a new leader. Okay, then ask why. People feel not represented. The policy does what the lobby wants, nothing else.

And a leader must not be a fascist. You want a model in which the people comes first.

[agniky]

@MsRasput haha:D almost.

in germany, 70% (2 year old statistic) dislike the government. but also 70% like Angela Merkel (in the same statistic!). you see how strange things can get. Recently she's getting on everyone's nerves but she was quite liked a few years ago, without doing anything. We have a bunch of douchebags as leaders. economists did study english, the minister of social affairs is a primary school's teacher... and so on, and so on, and so on..

[mtklaric]

I used to love Zizek, until I found and started reading Thomas Jefferson......Zizek is a mystic, he does not understand economics and regards fellow humans as cattle....he is an excelent psychologist, no further than that.....

[cslad1]

Zizek regards fellow humans as cattle? You do realize that Thomas Jefferson not only regarded fellow humans as cattle, but owned and treated them as such?

[kynismos]

Don't pick your nose, Slavoj!

[chocobosage420]

the cover of his book "Living in End Times," is the same as my Frankenstein. Painting is by Caspar David Friedrich.

[theH0UNDSofD00M]

"The only utopia is believing that we can carry on living like we live right now"

Zizek is really hits the nail on the head with that statement...Scary times indeed.

[nxu89]

are we condemned to make the make the mistakes of the past? there is a causal link between the rise of the right and collapse of economies. the attempt to blame people of no power for the faults of the powerful.

[highway234]

The contrast between the faux Fox folk singer and the pete seegar documentary reminds me of "bob roberts." kinda life imitating art...

[2bsirius]

@highway234

LOL strange to click on a video and find someone you know has already responded to it when it has had so few views :)

[highway234]

@2bsirius we zizek fans are the few, the proud. 8-)

very discouraging to see merkel hop on the anti-immigrant bandwagon. germany was a real voice of reason in the run-up to the iraq war but suddenly now they seem to be wanting to jump on the Tea-Party/BNP express. you'd think folks who knew even rudimentary history would know that scapegoating and obsession with militarized borders is a knee-jerk reaction to economic hardship, and it never helps. it ALWAYS makes things much worse.