/lit/ - Literature

>>15462425
>0:23
literally what the fuck

Why does Slavoj sound like he's trying to get a dick out of his nose?

>>15462605
Coke

>>15462425
why does this youtube channel (and others like it) chop up 90 minute lectures into 200*3 minute clips for a total of 600minute/10hour viewing experience
it fucks my sense of time and reality

>>15462620
There are only two I know like this - one for Slavoj and one for Joe Rogan. I suspect they're ran by the same guy because of how similar the format is.

>>15462425
>that nose touching fest
its getting worse, bros.

>>15462605
i (>>15462600) just learned that they're nervous ticks and now i feel bad

>>15462637
i used to watch some of his 2005~ lectures and his ticks were a lot more diverse. he condensed all his ticks into nose now, but they used to involve his whole face, mouth, eyes, and other muscles. also, his hands. were especially active even outside the facial region. he would do some geometric patterns like he was crossing himself like he had to touch A B C to create an angle or something.

>>15462425
>fraud A destroys fraud B, buy his book instead

>>15462622
Same green box around the subject as well.
I don't mind these clips, as long as they link the full lecture in the description.

>>15462425
Only an idiot would respect pinker in the forst place anyways

well look at that, a zizek video where you get what he's trying to say

>>15462425
Why would anyone even compare zizek to pinker. One is a cognitive psychologist and linguist whose work is reliant on science and evidence. The other is a fat maniac who spouts garbled theory with absolutely no empirical anchor in reality.

>>15462605
He only does this when he speaks English. When he speaks Slovene he doesn't have any tics at all.

>>15462425

>Stephen Pinker is right that things are great but things are going to get bad soon, i promise
>Implies another world war is coming with no evidence, except "muh radical right"

Yeah, totally destroyed. This guy is the biggest pseud.

>>15463348
t. Alt-right neckbeard fascist

>>15462425
>things are looking up, but so were they in the 80 years before world war I
god what an absolute hack. now I get where a lot of the debate style of leftist pseuds come from. bring up unrelated history/philosophy to make yourself seem smart without ever explicitly refuting the point, just act like it has been. fuck this faggot.

>>15462637
you definitively need to go back you absolute pussy.

>>15462425
thats not much of an achievement

I've never heard either of these men say anything I've found profound or intelligent.
I am, unironically, smarter than both of them.

>>15463353
.... so you think the radical alt right IS going to start a war soon? I think you are overestimating them bruv. Person you responded to didnt even say anything right wing. I think you may be projecting.

>>15463443

KEK

>>15462600
i feel him a bit
i have this thing where i pretty much compulsorily flex my stomach muscles, i dont really know why but sometimes just sitting i'll just bend down and tighten my core in an awkward and unnatural looking way.
literally retarded but only recently i was in public and i had an epiphany that i could just NOT do that. like a hiccup but you can control it. but people noticed it all through school and stuff and thought i was weird

>>15463443
hahahahah

>>15463453
>>15463605
Cope

>>15462425
Wrong. Capital can't be defeated.

>>15463335
one is a literal shill for US imperialism and CIA nigger propagandist, the other is not

>>15463443
Based.
The worship of "intellectuals" on this board is so dumb. If you look at what they're actually saying it's just as baseless as any random chan post.

>>15462600
undiagnosed tourrettes

>>15464052
AWOOOOOGA, *BONER PIERCES MY PANTS*

>>15462425

>we are in the decades before WW1
He's right here.

>>15462425
>communism was bad but the evil capitalist WWI was so much worse you guys

absolutely predictable nothing burger. as much as I hate pinker, wtf does this have to do with anything? this guy is just the fucking last gasp of boomer idolatry: just prepackaged, meaningless soundbites for pseud Americans who think anyone from Europe is a genius.

SNIFF SNIFF SNIFF SNIFF SNIFF

>>15464134
everything zizek said in that clip is true and historical. even before the russian revolution marxists realized that socialism is doomed to fail before capitalism ran its course, the historical conditions weren't right and doubly so in backwater russia. engels even predicted the collapse of the ussr before world war 1, and saw it as an unfortunate but likely development as marxists will find themselves in a position of having to experiment and make mistakes because it's too early for communism but like others keen observers of his time he foresaw the historical tide and realized that the entire political landscape was going to be reshuffled and marxists will find themselves taking power to prevent fascists from doing the same.

>>15464100

Gotta blow up dem kiddies to fight the system.

>>15464223
i think he's a luddite retard but that's a silly interpretation. you blow up the kids to get the whole world to read your manifesto. works every time.

>>15464216
what does any of that have anything to do with either critiquing Pinker or constructing an actual, present day and relevant deconstruction of our own situation. it’s just a fucking bait and switch, and despite the historical accuracy he doesn’t do much to connect it to the modern day beyond “like dish ish totally what ze people were shinking and ve are shinking it too (sniff sniff)”
any retard can make baseless historical comparisons to ‘le bad times,’ why is this remarkable or more true than what he specifically challenges (the WW2 comparison)?

>>15464263
i know pinker only as a name so i don't know what zizek is responding to so you may be right that he's bullshitting as typical but the point of my post was to lend support to the argument he was fleshing out because this is a real ussr apologetic with more substance than meets the eye
i may have gotten carried away

>>15462632
>>15462605
It's an acquired taste, once you get used to them you just filter it out

>>15463335
One is a funny Eastern European man and the other is a Jewish American pedophile

>>15463335
One is a jew and the other one is a Slovene. I rest my case

>>15462425
>Slavoj Zizek destroyed Steven Pinker
Ohh sweaty, I'm sorry you refuse to read Nassim, peace be upon him, Taleb. The prophet of fat tails has already refuted Steven Pinker the Stinker. Sorry, sweaty! You can't refute people with these allusions and suggestions, that's pseud stuff.

>>15464542
A Jewish shill for neoliberalism and zionism on top of that.

>>15462425
>a period of universal progress
>such as women's rights
Dropped. Women's rights are anti progress, pushed by capitalist kikes in order to dissolve the family and turn women into worker bots so that amazon can have more people to pack boxes.

>>15463335
every post I've read like this is written by a robot, I'm starting to fucking auto-complete them in my head ffs

>>15464052
>nauseating coomer
>doesn't understand philosophy

every time lmao

>>15464052

>>15463348
I think he refering more to enviroment or economic crisis.

Feeling increasingly partial towards neoliberalism as of late - its such a shame that its proponents are such cringeworthy moralists.

>>15464783
I agree with much of neoliberalism as it stands. I would like a more left society but the socdems are clueless and the M-Ls are violent savages.

>>15465071
On the contrary, its the left-wing moralism that I dislike. We don't really NEED to have that, its just a historical contingency of the English speaking world.