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M. Jah's avatar

nearly always when i have read žižek i feel the urge to take a gun and go out in public..

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Citoyenne Kane's avatar

there’s surplus enjoyment to be had in unpacking that with your therapist

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M. Jah's avatar

say that again to my victims families.. i feel the urge again to tell that feeling something do not necessarily implicating to act like it.. do you get it?

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N.tropic M.path's avatar

Is this AI generated?

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Phil's avatar

Yes I have the same suspicion. I think this isn't Slavoj.

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Nicholas Crawford's avatar

He's said he's on substack now so that he can get his work out there without it getting declined. Also, far as I know, his angle on enjoyment regarding smoking and e-cigs in this piece is new.

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Groke Toffle's avatar

Phil, Emerson, MOODY. You're nuts. Praise be to Nicholas.

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MOODYTWOSDAY's avatar

Many prominent writers on this app hire ghostwriters. Maybe it’s a mix of ai & ghostwriting/editing

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Nicholas Crawford's avatar

No, he's just a workaholic who repeats himself to return to important points.

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Dusty Hope's avatar

I am a prof at parsons, studio classes and fundamentals, and have recently said, for papers, can read anywhere, but must site, same for AI, must site, as part of the worldwide wicki licky sic-y. and as a result I got some pretty well researched topicals. THO using for artwork is still mmmm except for reptition makers, pretty icky, the play with tho in repeaters and such is pretty fine actually, some things it does == but if your intake is "wrong" at least if you site it, then can address as ai miss, but in fact their papers were well don. huh.

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Max Murphy's avatar

i don’t think so. didn’t see any “delve into” or “rich tapestry” nonsense.

i’d imagine Zizek, among others, use AI for editing, ideas, outlining, etc. but probably not the simple “write an article about X topic” the way we’ve seen on many lazy blogs.

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N.tropic M.path's avatar

There are also typos.

This comment was facetious, but, still, it's surprising to see Zizek on here. Not that I'm complaining or anything.

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Johan Söderström's avatar

Yes. But what about all the smoking of weed in American movies? How does that fit in?

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Lise's avatar

Nicotine is being studied as a potential treatment for ADHD, wild, Huh? Meanwhile, European neurodivergents over 35 🥳.

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Class-Punk's avatar

If I smoke anything in the future it will be CBD because I want to align myself with the utilitarian spirit, but not so much that the pipes I bought serve no purpose. Also due to the stigma that the weed smell has in comparison to the tobacco smell, I wish that CBD and the male version of cannabis smelled like menthol tobacco. Therefore if I do smoke CBD sometime in the future, I will have to treat it like a shameful but enjoyable thing that I keep inside the home, like Crocs and fake plants.

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Nathan Keller's avatar

A cig'rett is a vote for fun. Zizek can we ammend that helpful allure you felt for platitudes to the ones that give an implied threat? Those ones bring more energy to life. It simply is sincere to say cleanliness is next to godlike. But one cannot change by turning on a dime, is one message of Sapolsky saying we Have no will-power. I like these platitudes that arenot already worn out. They threaten and show their teeth like real conversationalists.

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Dusty Hope's avatar

tune takes a cigarette putts it in. your mouth. outside under awning. and its pouring. and rain makes it all that much more a dash from staying inside, remember going to NY athletic club on a date and fnding smokers in bathroom with the girls, and there stood an aunie mame kind of cross with j childe, damned if she did smoky laugh we hung...

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Stirling S Newberry's avatar

It is a generation thing - one side of the line one sees Boggie taking a drag and the young people in the audience say "that's so cool!" on the other (μεν/δε) the millennials say "that's gross!" and light up some marijuana, because of them pot is legal.

This means that there is. a sociological dimension to the habits which we engage in. After all marijuana was illegal because it was assigned of putting "the Negro folks in jail" with the final step being the Controlled Substances Act of 1970.

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George Wesley's avatar

I don’t think that’s necessarily true. Just because Hollywood censors itself it doesn’t mean millennials (many of us now in our 40s) don’t think smoking on old movies looks cool, even more so now because it is prohibited and dangerous. Of course, we generally don’t like the smell of smoke in real life because we didn’t grow up around it, but that’s different.

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Stirling S Newberry's avatar

1. The millennials, as a group reject smoking. There is, of course, a geographical basis.

2. Every age grew up with pot - but this generation decided it should be made legal. That's a cultural difference and I would submit it is the same.

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George Wesley's avatar

There is a huge difference between not doing something because it is seen as dangerous or illegal and not doing something because you think it’s gross. I think skydiving and BASE jumping are cool as hell but I would never do it myself.

Pot has been legalized and normalized among millennials, but many also vape.

There is definitely a social dimension, but my point is just that it is not as simple as “cigarettes gross, marijuana cool.” It has more to do with what is perceived as acceptable risk. Marijuana is perceived as non-addictive with limited negative health outcomes while smoking is seen as a really bad for you. Young smokers and vapers are generally embarrassed by their addiction because it signals a lack of self control and commitment to personal health. But I would argue this simply reinforces the inverse perception that people smoking in old media are cool because it was a) usually before they knew cigarettes were bad and b) demonstrates a nihilistic self confidence that is impossible for modern smokers in today’s health focused culture.

My only issue with your original comment is the idea that millennials think cigarettes in old movies are “gross,” when I have never heard that from my cohort.

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Stirling S Newberry's avatar

"My only issue with your original comment is the idea that millennials think cigarettes in old movies are 'gross,' when I have never heard that from my cohort."

I have.

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Kaïna Tamazight's avatar

In Algiers we chain smoke cigarettes dipped in hashish.

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Stirling S Newberry's avatar

I would suggest that smoking and following despots are a means of suicide.

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Kaïna Tamazight's avatar

Liberal democracy is suicide by faggots and Jews.

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Nietzsche’s Nephew's avatar

This makes me want to pick up smoking

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Kaïna Tamazight's avatar

As a Muslim the only chemical vices I'm allowed are hashish and cigarettes.

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Geraldine O'Brien's avatar

I'm a chain smoker.. thinking about quitting because I had a surgery and was forced to pause. Not sure what to do now. :/

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JMC's avatar

40 years of women’s lib killed that tag line dead and Covid buried it alive. woof.

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Dusty Hope's avatar

It did turn own I didnt mind the "blows" but it sows through poetic tumbril, as my way of finding -- nc gave me finders but dog face reilly the weepers keepers. Reread Sylvia's poems, 94 percent of it, her last year up to, she classed with Lowell and oh ya know it show, kno wwhat I mean, it shows her narrative and her poems are very different, and thats ok.....

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Abhishek's avatar

The meal was expensive what did you ate? Air.

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deine Mama's avatar

Learn something about tantric sex practices. Sexual Frustration in people is the biggest threat to this world.

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Max Murphy's avatar

slavoj beemed directly into my brain via email. this is precisely what i needed in my life.

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