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 ŽižekWithout the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.
Slavoj ŽižekOur biological body itself is a form of hardware that needs re-programming through tantra like a new spiritual software which can release or unblock its potential.
Slavoj ŽižekIn Fascism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed. Nobody had the idea of arresting Jews and torturing them to confess the Jewish plot. Because in Fascism, you are guilty for your whole being.
Slavoj ŽižekYou could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.
Slavoj ŽižekZionism itself has paradoxically come to adopt some antisemitic logic in its hatred of Jews who do not fully identify with the politics of the state of Israel. Their target, the figure of the Jew who doubts the Zionist project, is constructed in the same way as the European antisemites constructed the figures of the Jew – he is dangerous because he lives among us, but is not really one of us.
Slavoj Žižek