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>One is tempted to claim, in the Kantian mode, that the mistake of the conspiracy theory is somehow homologous to the "paralogism of the pure reason," to the confusion between the two levels: the suspicion (of the received scientific, social, etc. common sense) as the formal methodological stance, and the positivation of this suspicion in another all-explaining global para-theory.

what did zizek mean by this?

>> No.13674845

>>13674364
That being skeptical of one ideological narrative should then not then take the form of an alternative ideological narrative.

>> No.13674860

Be a skeptic, not a cynic.

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>>13674364
Just more whinging from our increasingly nervous intelligentsia trying to play the good little gatekeepers they've been told to be
>n-no no no, y-you're not supposed to think faster than us, y-you've got to wait until we tell you what to think
>s-stop noticing connections between people in power and social phenomena and just go back to watching netflix
>an infamous billionaire pedophile donated over 6 million dollars to harvard? so what? Avicii? sorry, but you've got to accept the fact that he killed himself after releasing a music video about him going around killing rich and powerful pedophiles. there are no such pedophiles, even if they make donations to ivy league universities and there is video of the members of royal families spending time at their homes
>nooooooo, you can't just amass a well sourced and coherent record of things! stop paying attention and just listen to my latest 2 hr lecture at oxford where I babble about nothing but it's okay because there's a few penis and scatological jokes mixed in, see? we're not like those old, stuffy academics of the past!
>listen, if you don't quit all of this independent analysis, we're going to have to ban you from all social media platforms, so please, just shut up and buy the newest pop-sci book that talks about how you need to be the best little wageslave you can be and if you're depressed about the wagie-cage deluxe3000 you're going to be doomed to work in for the rest of your life don't worry we'll have really awesome robot-pills that you will take that will cure you