What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity? - Slavoj Žižek

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What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded. . . sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.

Slavoj Žižek

What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity?

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Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist, fascist, capitalist, whatever. Today, nobody even debates these issues. We all silently accept global capitalism is here to stay. On the other hand, we are obsessed with cosmic catastrophes: the whole life on earth disintegrating, because of some virus, because of an asteroid hitting the earth, and so on. So the paradox is, that it's much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism.

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The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.

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Love is what makes sex more than masturbation. If there is no love even if you are really with a partner you masturbate with a partner.

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If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.

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What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?

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What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded. . . sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.

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