tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post1494966526743030319..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Slavoj Zizek Endorses Donald TrumpStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-57907286117419988752016-11-05T20:24:21.153-07:002016-11-05T20:24:21.153-07:00Famous people often live in bubbles-- even famous ...Famous people often live in bubbles-- even famous philosophers. He is insulated from the real world. I'm sure plenty of insulated people supported various despots throughout history. After all, they had nothing much to lose-- or they thought they didn't.<br /><br />Maybe he is hurting though. A lot of people who support Trump seem to be seriously depressed or have anxiety issues to the point of paranoia, and/or to be out of control with rage. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-67605819502486586042016-11-05T11:23:35.200-07:002016-11-05T11:23:35.200-07:00I always liked Zizek, he's not your usual brai...I always liked Zizek, he's not your usual brain dead wishy washy progressive, and whatever you think of the substantiveness of his "philosophical" thinking, it's at least entertaining. Something you can't say of our technocratic progressive moralists.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-24260572719910142852016-11-05T10:03:43.720-07:002016-11-05T10:03:43.720-07:00(Inhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...(Inhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaale.) Oh, maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan, I'm wasted.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-58763541105906859722016-11-05T05:48:27.689-07:002016-11-05T05:48:27.689-07:00Sorry, that reply to Ares was from moi. Fat finger...Sorry, that reply to Ares was from moi. Fat fingered it.<br /><br />Anyway, I thought a little more info about these neopaganists, John Podesta, and associates might be amusing...<br /><br />https://stream.org/spirit-cooking-simulated-cannibalism-the-election<br /><br />Sounds like a fun time!Trigger Warningnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-55827830130951003472016-11-05T05:36:03.105-07:002016-11-05T05:36:03.105-07:00Ares, that's pretty good stuff as rhyming word...Ares, that's pretty good stuff as rhyming word salads go.<br /><br />Starhawk: neopagan and ecofeminist "theoretician", Wiccan, inspiration for "goddess" movement, Master's degree from a diploma mill.<br /><br />That's pretty much the whole shootin' match except for a bone in the nose.<br /><br />Now I understand your attraction to Hillary. She's one of those [ahem] <i>powerful</i> women.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-12423076960008278122016-11-04T23:01:32.717-07:002016-11-04T23:01:32.717-07:00The pro-Trump vote does seem to have split compone...The pro-Trump vote does seem to have split components, perhaps just like Trump himself seems to have a Dr Jeckal and Mr. Hyde divide. There's the anger side that is looking for scapegoats, and punishing the people doing bad things. And then there's the "Make America great again" side that fantasizes real problems are simple, once you get the bad people out of the way.<br /><br />I'd guess a large portion of Trump supporters would be personally harmed by his policies, but they're already hurting, so they're willing to take the risk.<br /><br />But Marxist philosopher-clown Slavoj Zizek clearly is a different sort, someone not personally hurting, but content to see the negatives of the current system without worrying about what alternatives really are, or the personal costs needed to create something better.<br /><br />He's surely in a protected enough place that he can imagine whatever negative consequences of Trump won't hurt him personally. So he can fearlessness support leadership that is guaranteed to break more things than it fixes.<br /><br />And he's not afraid of convincing people they are oppressed by an elite, despite the fact that such resentment beliefs merely encourage further disintegration of social order that still does a lot of good.<br /><br />All "living" systems contain a war between order and chaos, and chaos always wins in the end, and chaos becomes the process of renewal, but dangerously, only after a lot of good is destroyed. Sometimes incrementalism is progess, and sometimes it moves us further down the road to hell.<br /><br />I recall a poem/song by author Starhawk. Its more valuble to accept when you're stuck on a downward path that will take a long time to get out, but less good as advice how to speed up the destruction which won't necessarily lead to escaping faster.<br />---<br />Where there's fear there's power<br />Passion is the healer<br />Desire cracks open the gate<br />If you're ready it'll take you through<br /><br />But nothing lasts forever<br />Time is the destroyer<br />The wheel turns again and again<br />Watch out, it'll take you through<br /><br />But nothing dies forever<br />Nature is the renewer,The wheel turns again and again <br />If you're ready it'll take you through<br />- Starhawk<br />----Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-59997718600457759182016-11-04T16:08:38.555-07:002016-11-04T16:08:38.555-07:00Hey, I'm married to a lawyer. You shouldn'...Hey, I'm married to a lawyer. You shouldn't generalize. It's a mere 99% that give the rest a bad name.Trigger Warningnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-51703779724457433852016-11-04T15:09:33.604-07:002016-11-04T15:09:33.604-07:00"connected with banks"
Why is being ..."connected with banks"<br /><br />Why is being 'connected with banks' considered worse than being 'connected with lawyers'? (or for that matter, *being* a lawyer).<br /><br />Both finance and law are important functions which have IMO grown disproportionately large, both in terms of size and of influence, as I discussed in this post:<br /><br />http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/18204.html<br /><br />For some reason, finance seems to come across at a form of black magic / witchcraft in the minds of many.<br /><br />(And, of course, historically, Fear of Finance is closely linked to anti-Semitism)David Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.com