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Zizek on love, deconstruction and "cynicism"

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Uploaded by on Jun 20, 2009

Taken from the documentary Zizek!

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  • @rainwindandwolf Totally misunderstood AND misused. In political discourse here in the Netherlands, realistic observations are very often done away with by putting on an ugly face and labeling them as 'too cynical' (whatever that may mean). It is mainly the christians who do this, but that can hardly be a surprise.

  • Cynicism is misunderstood

  • @aha45 "When the Ancients directly said I love you, they meant exactly the same - all of these distanciations were included. So it's we today who are afraid that if we were to put it directly, 'I love you,' that it would mean too much. _We_ believe in it."

  • @aha45

    ancients

  • when the...elephants? What's he saying?

  • @AmrAS1985 No raising the minimum wage allow a cut in taxes and more people would spend money, at worst it would have no effect either way. At best it would create jobs as the tax cuts that accompany it would help entrepreneurs.

  • @warriorprince1010 warriorprince you are arguing against common knowledge. Switzerland and norway i dont know much about but there must be some specefic extreme factors there that explain it if what you say is true. Minimum wage in a country makes businesses also leave that country and produce in say china, etc. which means unemployment. Same like increasing taxes. This is all available on even wikipedia! Common knowledge really, check first i dont know why you are still debating.

  • @AmrAS1985 A minimum wage of 60% the average wage will not cause unemployment, no. There are only 2 countries with this Switzerland and Norway and both have full employment. What you happen to be studying has no relevance, you are simply wrong.

  • @warriorprince1010 Wow this is an old thread... just got to it now. Im an economics major. :) Minimum wage increases unemployment.. As less ppl want to hire you, A car wash manager will go for the automatic car wash machines than pay you to wash cars at their car wash. McDs will have less staff around and try to computerize certain aspects of the job.. Its really that simple. :)

  • "we believe in it" : What Zizek misses - although it is a nice point on his view (also a true point in its world) - is that deconstructionists are aware of this. The problem is like that of the unconscious. The unconscious is really something that we are unaware of. Thus all the to do about psychoanalysis. Same thing different ball park.

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