Slavoj Žižek analyses the era of shamelessness, the crimes of the IDF, and the role of the Freudian unconscious in modern politics.
Is shamelessness the route cause of our modern political woes?
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Every time the modern world feels like it’s hit rock bottom, we drop further. For many, our current political climate is evidence that the world as we knew it is gone. But for radical philosopher Slavoj Žižek rock bottom, what he calls the “zero point,” can be a place to retreat, rethink and regroup. In our increasingly multipolar, dangerous and populist world, join Slavoj Žižek, the man who has been called “the most dangerous philosopher in the West,” who argues that the only progress we can hope for will be found when we hit rock bottom, and only then will a path forward be possible.
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Slavoj Žižek is a world-renowned philosopher, cultural critic and public intellectual. Foreign Policy named Žižek a Top 100 Global Thinker “for giving voice to an era of absurdity”.
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00:00 Trump, the Israeli military, and a new authoritarianism
00:42 The crimes of the IDF and the general consensus in Israel
03:59 Netanyahu vs dissenters
07:05 The hypocrisy of Europe
08:16 Psychoanalysis, perversion, and the role of the unconscious
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