/lit/ - Literature

>>12262290
This just makes Zizek seem extremely based.

>>11843066
You've gotta fight memes with memes, you've gotta turn him to Zizek.

if he makes the coffee without cream joke again someone should assassinate him

>>10455611
>because they are busy making *sniff* jokes

proper zizek parody holds deeper meaning than what he actually says

>>10305021
this is posted all the damn time but i'm still gonna throw it out there in case you haven't seen it

>>10237561
>I love Mel Gibson for his hatred of Jews. Makes me proud to call myself a National Socialist
Pure ideology

>>10148807
I'll bite

You have to have a life worth writing about.

Then you have to be brutally honest about it with everything you say

Then you have to mix in humor

Then you actually have to have decent meter and rhyme

Then you need to be able to meet with tons of people who are equally talented/eccentric/insane, and NOT butt heads with them.

Then you need to butt heads with them on purpose, for publicity, while winking at them all the while.

Then you need to be able to produce amazing instrumentals.

There. Now you can be yé
go away

You know the drill.

Anyone got that screenshot from Ready Player One that's just a list of references?

>>9981397

>>9129553
>INTJ
>Robert Heinlein
>Stranger in a Strange Land, by same
>24
>Computer Science

>So how about the next candidate for love as a political category? The so-called
oriental spirituality, Buddhism, with its, so we are told, more gentle balanced,
holistic, ecological approach. You know, all the stories about how, when digging
up earth for the foundation of a house, Tibetan Buddhists are careful to not kill
any worms and such. In the whole of the last 150 years Japan’s rapid
industrialization and militarization, with the ethics of discipline and sacrifice, was
sustained by the large majority of Zen Buddhist thinkers. Who today knows that
Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki himself, the high guru of Zen in the United States of the
1960’s, supported in his youth in Japan of the 1940’s the spirit of utter discipline
and militaristic expansion. There is no contradiction here, no manipulative
perversion of some authentic, compassionate insight. The attitude of total
immersion into the selfless now, of the Instant, this so-called Buddhist
enlightenment in which all reflexive distance is lost, in short in which absolute
discipline coincides with total spontaneity, perfectly legitimizes our subordination
to the militaristic social machine. It’s quite interesting to read Buddhist texts on
war, where they claim openly that, for ordinary people, who don’t have time to
meditate for years, the best shortcut for overcoming you false self and reaching
nirvana, satori whatever we call it, is total subordination to the military discipline.
And Suzuki himself wrote a wonderful text, where he even gives advice to the
military how to use Buddhism to make killing easier. He says that if I persist in
my everyday attitude of false belief in that I have a self, which is the free agent
of its acts, and let’s say I have to kill one of you, this is difficult, I look into your
eyes, I find it difficult, [I hesitate whether] I should stab the knife into you, I feel
responsible. Then Suzuki says if you reach Buddhist enlightenment it’s much
easier. You no longer believe in your autonomous self, your perceive yourself as
just a void, an anonymous, impassive observer of life around you where
phenomena simply are engaged in their cosmic dance, which is a totally neutral
process. From this distance, as Suzuki puts it, you simply observe your knife in
a cosmic dance of phenomena hitting the eye or the throat of your enemy. This
is no joking matter, because I’m not blaming Buddhism for this. I’m just saying
how even the most radical spirituality is no guarantee that we will not be doing
horrible things in our daily life.

Just finished reading "Living in the end times" and "Metastases of Enoyment". Should I read "Sublime object of ideology" now?

This is a Zizek thread.

Once again, Ziz was right all along.

"I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology."

Mein gott, really?

>this thread
relevant

Zizek-posting was the best desu.