SLAVOJ ZIZEK at occupy wallstreet1.flv

part2:http://youtu.be/Xjcm2djpimQ .Transcript: [They are saying] we are all losers, but the true losers are down there on Wall Street. They were bailed out by billions of our money. We are called socialists, but here there is already socialism — for the rich. They say we don't respect private property. But in the 2008 financial crash-down more hard-earned private property was destroyed than if all of us here were to be destroying it night and day for weeks. They tell you we are dreamers; the true dreamers are those who think things can go on indefinitely the way they are. We are not dreamers; we are the awakening from the dream that is turning into a nightmare. We are not destroying anything; we are only witnessing how the system is destroying itself. We all know the classic scene from cartoons. The cartoon cat reaches a precipice, but it goes on walking, ignoring the fact that there is nothing beneath its ground. Only when it looks down and notices it he falls down. This is what we are doing here. We are telling the guys there on Wall Street, 'Hey! Look down!'

[inaudible] "... In April 2011, the Chinese government prohibited on TV, films, and in novels all stories that contain alternate reality or time travel. This is a good sign for China; it means people still dream about alternatives, so we have to prohibited this dreaming. Here we don't think of prohibition because the ruling history has even oppressed our capacity to dream. Look at the movies that we see all the time. It's easy to imagine the end of the world — an asteroid destroying all of life, and so on — but we cannot imagine the end of capitalism. So what are we doing here? Let me tell you a wonderful old joke from Communist times. A guy was sent to work in East Germany from Siberia. He knew his mail would be read by censors, so he told his friends, 'Let's establish a code. If a letter you get from me is written in blue ink, it is true what I say; if it is written in red ink, it is false.' After a month, his friends get a first letter. Everything is in blue. It says, this letter: 'Everything is wonderful here. The stores are full of good food, movie theatres show good films from the West, apartments are large and luxurious. The only thing you cannot buy is red ink.' This is how we live. We have all the freedoms we want, but what we are missing is red ink: the language to articulate our non-freedom. The way we are taught to speak about freedom, 'war on terror,' and so on, falsifies freedom. And this is what you are doing here: You are giving all of us red ink.

"There is a danger: Don't fall in love with yourselves. We have a nice time here. But remember: Carnivals come cheap. What matters is the day after when we will have to return to normal life. Will there be any changes then? I don't want you to remember these days, you know, like, 'Oh, we were young, it was beautiful...' Remember that our basic message is, 'We are allowed to think about alternatives.' A taboo is broken. We do not live in the best possible world. But there is a long road ahead. There are truly difficult questions that confront us. We know what we do not want, but what do we want? What social organization can replace capitalism? What type of new leaders do we want? Remember: The problem is not corruption or greed; the problem is the system which pushes you to be corrupt. Beware not only of the enemies, but also of false friends who are already working to dilute this process in the same way you get coffee without caffeine, beer without alcohol, ice cream without fat. They will try to make this into a harmless moral protest, a decaffeinated protest. But the reason we are here is that we have had enough of the world where to recycle Coke cans to give a couple of dollars to charity, or to buy a Starbucks cappuccino where one percent goes to Third World starving children is enough to make us feel good. After outsourcing work and torture, after immense agencies are outsourcing even our love life... MIC CHECK!... We can see that for a long time, we allowed our political engagement also to be outsourced. We want it back.

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[vikramtheone]

Wow man this is so awesome... you had a chance to see him in person.

[kylecb]

@OccupyBoston Part 2, in case they don't add an overlay: Xjcm2djpimQ ( add this to URL after v= ).

[OccupyBoston]

please add link to video 2 in description or graphic overlay.