The problem for me is not that Schwarzenegger is governor, but the extent to which even politicians who are not actors are functioning like actors.
Slavoj ŽižekWords are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.
Slavoj ŽižekWe Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much money, so we put him on a boat and he landed in Scotland.
Slavoj ŽižekA typical guy who buys organic food doesn't really buy it in order to be healthy; he buys it to regain a kind of solidarity as the one who really cares about nature. He buys a certain ideological stance.
Slavoj Žižek