a little note

Alphonso 2022-12-31 21:12:49

In postmodern society, pleasure has become a bizarre, deformed responsibility. What people desire is the desire itself, the desire to "continue to desire", and when the desire is satisfied, the desire ceases to exist. Without desire, people fall into depression.

We are not talking about the actual commodity, but its added value. In the past, consumerism was still pure, and now consumption has added donations, responsibilities, feelings, etc. to offset your guilt about consumption. This is the ultimate form of consumerism. Modern marketing pays more attention to social psychology and analyzes human nature. For example, Starbucks will donate 1% of its profits to environmental protection causes or poverty-stricken areas. Capitalism drives our profit-generating capital cycle, inflating, exploiting, and destroying nature on the one hand, and requiring us to consider the well-being of future generations and our own survival, etc. There is an irreconcilable contradiction between the expansion of capitalism and the awakening of ecological consciousness. Capital keeps expanding, producing, while leaving behind countless worthless waste.

The German philosopher Benjamin believed that we live in history, not because we are experiencing historical events, but because we are in absolutely negative "moments of silence beyond reality," moments of destructive time frozen in time.

Titanic, the idea of ​​free and progressive love is a blindfold. That catastrophe fulfilled the fantasy of great love without having to think about the ugliness of situational love after the passion wears off. People in the upper class who lose self-esteem go to the lower class, absorb their vitality, regain their self-confidence, and then return to the undisturbed upper class. In the army, it is not just unconditional obedience. On the one hand, mild banter keeps an ironic distance; In order to enter a certain group, some unwritten rules are required.

When the truth is too strong, politicians should be cynics, and even if he knows the truth, he should tell the people "noble fiction". Without God, all things are allowed. If there is God, all things are allowed. Do whatever you want with God's will.

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  • Slavoj Zizek: This is an old conservative wisdom - asserted long ago by philosophers from Plato - especially, and then Immanuel Kant, Edmond Burke and so on and so on. This idea that the truth is too strong. That a politician should be a cynicist who, - although he knows what is true, tells to ordinary people what Plato called 'a noble fable' - a lie.

  • Slavoj Zizek: One of the great platitudes - which are popular today - when we are confronted with acts of violence - is to refer to Theodore Dostoievsky's - famous statement from 'The Brothers Karamazov': "If there is no God then everything is permitted. "