About 35 years ago I had the pleasure of being told - after visits to several offices inside the Italian State Registry (Anagrafe) in Rome - by an archivist working in the very basement of the building, that the street I lived in did not exist. Despite feeling anger and disappointment after hours wasted in the frantic search for a piece of bureacratic paper, we both felt a certain pleasure at this absurd "revelation". We both knew that the street existed in reality.
Hey Žižek! I'm writing from Ethiopia. I reckon I might be one of the few Ethiopians who's keeps up with what you're doing. I've got a question for you: our country is grappling with ethnic conflict stemming from our ethnic-based federalism, a product of Leninist philosophy. I strongly feel that we could benefit immensely from the insights of an intellectual like you on our situation and a way out of our troubles. It's puzzling that there's no one delving into this for us. Why is that? Why focus all your efforts on the Western world when millions are suffering and perishing on the fringes too? A single pamphlet detailing our condition would mean the world. I'm speaking out like this because I see you as a friend. That's the impression you've given us. But i love you, even if you don't write on Ethiopia.
damn that is discussting.. by throwing out the ideological language which corrupts the language there is no language anymore if one trashing ideo away from logic.. the brain is then not a trashcan of ideology but able to think logical uncorrupted..
greedily much this society is talking to just say nothing moralic sensfull.. the media which is intellectual supporting capitalistic fascists supporting opinional leaded idiotisms a lot ..
language metaphors thus metaphysics are antiphysics are meta thus over are a ideological motivated deathsentence to logical thinking.. logic is physical..an physical wordlineccesarity.. singularily just one sun heating blossomingly the whole earth.. kill singularities to murder life.. or just put conventions over it which just are supposed to mean the same.. like 'dignity' which is something like a will to dig or a metaphor to own a free will..which in fact nobody ever owned.. to fake something as free which truely is the opposite of a unforced decission because a willing is a forcing to a self or to some or to all other.. germany in fact just repelling and dementing their profits of such sadistical suffermakery(leidenschaftlichkeit) made by an positivity with such untopable negativity of paid ignorance which corruptingly destroying demoralizingly..
Actually, there is still a life certificate. In some European countries, retirees submit the life certificate to the pension fund once a year.
Bureaucracy serves to show the ordinary citizen who is the boss. When a bureaucrat rejects a request, the citizen takes it for granted, as this is what they expected. When a bureaucrat approves a request, the citizen feels blessed as if they are in God's favor. So, Hegel was right.
About 35 years ago I had the pleasure of being told - after visits to several offices inside the Italian State Registry (Anagrafe) in Rome - by an archivist working in the very basement of the building, that the street I lived in did not exist. Despite feeling anger and disappointment after hours wasted in the frantic search for a piece of bureacratic paper, we both felt a certain pleasure at this absurd "revelation". We both knew that the street existed in reality.
Hey Žižek! I'm writing from Ethiopia. I reckon I might be one of the few Ethiopians who's keeps up with what you're doing. I've got a question for you: our country is grappling with ethnic conflict stemming from our ethnic-based federalism, a product of Leninist philosophy. I strongly feel that we could benefit immensely from the insights of an intellectual like you on our situation and a way out of our troubles. It's puzzling that there's no one delving into this for us. Why is that? Why focus all your efforts on the Western world when millions are suffering and perishing on the fringes too? A single pamphlet detailing our condition would mean the world. I'm speaking out like this because I see you as a friend. That's the impression you've given us. But i love you, even if you don't write on Ethiopia.
damn that is discussting.. by throwing out the ideological language which corrupts the language there is no language anymore if one trashing ideo away from logic.. the brain is then not a trashcan of ideology but able to think logical uncorrupted..
greedily much this society is talking to just say nothing moralic sensfull.. the media which is intellectual supporting capitalistic fascists supporting opinional leaded idiotisms a lot ..
language metaphors thus metaphysics are antiphysics are meta thus over are a ideological motivated deathsentence to logical thinking.. logic is physical..an physical wordlineccesarity.. singularily just one sun heating blossomingly the whole earth.. kill singularities to murder life.. or just put conventions over it which just are supposed to mean the same.. like 'dignity' which is something like a will to dig or a metaphor to own a free will..which in fact nobody ever owned.. to fake something as free which truely is the opposite of a unforced decission because a willing is a forcing to a self or to some or to all other.. germany in fact just repelling and dementing their profits of such sadistical suffermakery(leidenschaftlichkeit) made by an positivity with such untopable negativity of paid ignorance which corruptingly destroying demoralizingly..
Actually, there is still a life certificate. In some European countries, retirees submit the life certificate to the pension fund once a year.
Bureaucracy serves to show the ordinary citizen who is the boss. When a bureaucrat rejects a request, the citizen takes it for granted, as this is what they expected. When a bureaucrat approves a request, the citizen feels blessed as if they are in God's favor. So, Hegel was right.