MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Slavoj Žižek: 'Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots'
By artappraiser on Tue, 06/12/2012 - 2:19am |By Decca Aitkenhead, The Guardian, June 10, 2012
A genius with the answers to the financial crisis? Or the Borat of philosophy? The cultural theorist talks about love, sex and why nothing is ever what it appears to be
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/jun/10/slavoj-zizek-humanity-ok-people-boring
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No contest. That is the strangest article I have read in years. I did laugh a lot but where were the promised answers to the financial crisis? The statement I most agree with:
"I'm a pessimist in the sense that we are approaching dangerous times. But I'm an optimist for exactly the same reason. Pessimism means things are getting messy. Optimism means these are precisely the times when change is possible."
He would like the website where I found this today:
Good night.
by EmmaZahn on Tue, 06/12/2012 - 2:54am
I was going to say I adore the illustration you chose, but then I clicked on the link and I love all 13 of them.
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/12/2012 - 3:27am
Try Emir Kusturica's Underground or Time of the Gypsies for more wonderful eclectic Balkan humor/seriousness. "Once There Was a Country" - their modern predicament.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 06/12/2012 - 4:14am