Slavoj appeared on the Charlie Rose last week. He is definitely better in the ad-lib mode. Charlie Rose is moronically exposed next to a classical European rebel. The crap Zizek says there about the American intellectuals, blah, blah, blah… witness Charlie Rose and his remarks, I rest my case. Some of the current Zizek’s observations are sort of interesting but how can a man get away with essentially telling the same jokes and reading from the same script over and over again for the past two decades? Is Zizek no longer in the thinking business?
P.S. At the end of the interview Zizek marvels about the contradiction of the terms “possible” and “impossible”. People consider drastic changes to human health, longevity, etc. as “possible” while the small changes in the social infrastructure, like changes of the tax code, government, etc. as “impossible”. And I say actually the opposite is true. Witness the impossible collapse of the CCCP and the social block, the state of Israel, even, ahem, the ongoing collapse of the capitalist system. On the other hand the westernized human race is plagued by obesity, rapid explosion of cancers with no real remedies in sight.
P.S.S. Back in the old country there were many eccentric personalities just like Zizek. People whose conversation will not put you to sleep after the second sentence, for what its worth the original thinkers. Despite Zziek’s protests to the contrary, what happened to this breed in America? How did they get extinct?
P.S.S.S. On the subject of Zizek’s Occupy Wall St. appearance. Is there anything more pathetic than pseudo revolutionary delivering a speech reading from a paper?
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Maybe the script holds?
Watching the interview, it occured to me that Zizek is in some sense filling the space being left by Christopher Hitchens.
As far as being “eccentric” and European intellectuals yes. Hitches is a real writer though, his primary skill is written language. Zizek primary skill is entertaining bullshit.
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