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Zizek is good at uttering profound-sounding things, but there's no substance. Anyone who has raised young children knows there's a high chance they'll call your
by xamuel 8y ago
Zizek is good at uttering profound-sounding things, but there's no substance. Anyone who has raised young children knows there's a high chance they'll call your bluff.
- claudiawerner 8y agoHe's using an analogy to drive home a point about authority, persuasion and command. The principle might have been better applied elsewhere, but that doesn't mean there's no substance; ironically you haven't seen the substance (essence) because you became hung-up on appearance. The essence may be less profound than he lets on, if we divorce it from the psychoanalytical justification, which is the point that when someone is kind to you (or gives the appearance of being so), you will feel less inclined to disobey, but it is merely the use of the techniques of someone experienced in convincing.
- barrow-rider 8y agoIs there a Zizek-bot, like the Chompskybot? I feel like there could be... Chompskybot -- http://rubberducky.org/cgi-bin/chomsky.pl http://rubberducky.org/cgi-bin/chomsky.pl (generates random Chompky-sounding nonsense)
- claudiawerner 8y agoIt's a little silly that people seem to find Chomsky hard to understand, when he himself accuses 'theory' of being hard to understand. But it should come of no surprise that people unfamiliar with the problems and terminology of a field think it's all nonsense. So here is a counter-question: I wonder if there's an Einstein bot that generates random Einstein-sounding nonsense.