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15482905 No.15482905 [Reply] [Original]

>Steven Pinker is right about virtually everything
>Slavoj Zizek is an entertaining figure but his ideas are one hundred percent useless, totally unfalsifiable, have literally no practical application to the real world

>> No.15482957

>>15482905
"unpopular"
where the fuck do you think you are. both of those things are standard beliefs you have to hold to even post on this board

>> No.15482959

>>15482905
>>15482957
this is not a pinker board

>> No.15482963

>>15482905
Pinker is an idiot and so is Zizek. Also Pinker was on Lolita Islans. Zizek for his part isn’t a pedo and only bangs impressionable ADULT students aged 18 and above like the Argentine QT he married.

>> No.15482971

>>15482905
I met Pinker once and tried to say hi. He just stared at me with his unmoving face and said “you should be grateful you dark elf that we no longer work you in the mines, so stfu regarding any input you have regarding life”.

>> No.15482974

>>15482957
are you kidding? people on this board suck Zizek's dick constantly

>> No.15482983

>>15482905
ASS

>> No.15482988
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People on this board who actually know have actually read either of them tend to speak of them favorably (and with less vitriol) than those who haven't.

>> No.15483008

>>15482994
I don’t like Pinker because I don’t like his personality and I think his book is silly (though the people he aims at are also silly). I don’t like Zizek either because he is a Marxist and a silly person. I only respect serious people.

>> No.15483011

>>15482974
they're trolling, and you fell for it

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>>15482988
Compare this to

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>>15483008
>I don’t like Pinker because I don’t like his personality
I don't like Rimbaud's personality, but his poetry is dank. I don't like Richard Dawkins's personality, but his books on biology (namely, The Selfish Gene, The Greatest Show on Earth, and The Ancerstor's Tale) are pretty dope.
>I think his book is silly
Which one?

>I don’t like Zizek either because he is a Marxist and a silly person.
So you disagree with Marxists. Fine. But anyone with that attitude probably shouldn't be reading Zizek in the first place. I think most of Zizek's works are speaking to an audience with a Marxist bent - and more importantly, who relatively philosophy with Marxist philosophical and political history. You sound sillier than he does.

>I only respect serious people.
This just sounds pompous and vacuous. So what, you don't like Oscar Wilde? Or you have an elaborate way of explaining that Wilde is serious but Pinker and Zizek are not?

>> No.15483316

>>15482905
Steven Pinker rapes children.

>> No.15483375

>>15483008
>I only respect serious people.
based

>> No.15483378

>>15482905
The prosaic facts Pinker discusses are correct
You don't say.

>> No.15484097

>>15483167
>Coomer

>> No.15485566

>>15483167
sauce?

>> No.15485581

>>15482905
>zizek
>there is complexity in the world and there aren't easy answers

>pinker
>lol isn't everything so good?

Gee its not hard to see which thinker is more complex and interesting

>> No.15485703

ass

>> No.15485767
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>>15482963
Zizek might be the person who looks most like a pedophile whilst not actually being one.

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>>15485767
>whilst not actually being one.

>> No.15486569

>>15482983
open?

>> No.15486886

>>15482905

Lolita has like 0 thematic meaning, Nabokov is clear in his closing notes that his work is not a transcendental statement about the human condition, or directly and meticulously considered about the nature of love, romance, alienation, etc etc. It is simply a work of florid prosecraft and ambiguous psychological exploration

>> No.15487964

>>15482988
ASS (underage)

>> No.15487970

>>15482905
Women write just as well as men.

>> No.15487980

>>15482905
Steven Pinker was okay until he transformed himself into a rightwinger.

>> No.15487991

>>15482974
Those are redditors.
Zizek is babby's first contemporary philosopher

>> No.15488025

>>15482988
I love this image so much

>> No.15488033

>>15482905
Yeah, but Zizek is more entertaining when he speaks. At least until you've watched a few of his videos, because he repeats himself a lot.

>> No.15488041

none of these are unpopula, stop listning to r*dditor tourists
>>15487980
cope tranny

>> No.15488050

>>15488041
Go back.

>> No.15488064

Literally everyone thinks that second one about Zizek. The reason why he's a pop culture figure is because he can't be a mainstream philosophy figure.
As for Pinker, he's too pop for people on this board. Writing to the crowd makes you unpopular in a place like this.

>> No.15488542

>>15482971
i kek'd

>> No.15488609

ass

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>>15482905
I saw a guy on the bus while visiting in Bermuda one time who looked just like Steven Pinker. I said to him, "Sorry if this is a silly question, but are you Steven Pinker?" After a second of hesitation, he replied with a stifled laugh in a deep British voice, "That was a silly question. I'm not Steven Pinker."