Philosophy

As an Eastern European myself, I’m a big fan of Žižek.

Though he’s a respected academic and public figure, to me he perfectly embodies the slavic boomer—a more refined version of that one uncle we all have, who, at every party, drunkenly projects his deeply internalized coping mechanisms for surviving the trauma leviathan born of decades in a Soviet state.

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I agree with you (I think? I don't have a slavic uncle lol), but the way he articulates his trauma / his ideas is good enough to be worthwhile! Also, in the screenshot he's not wrong

Also worth mentioning that Zizek drunk at a party should be a sight to behold

I think there are 2, possibly 3 statements in that screenshot that just don't make sense together

"I do all my work to escape myself. I don't believe in looking into yourself" > Fair enough

"If you do this, you just discover a lot of shit" > True 

"The truth is not deep in ourselves. The truth is outside" > I think what he's trying to say is that there's only so much you can learn (or do about it) looking inwards; truth is positive-sum, in motion and thus outside the self. Like finding meaning in work

Whether he is right or wrong depends on what fits best someone’s personal experience, but that itself stands as a strong counter to his argument 🤣