The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the … - Slavoj Žižek - Quotesmemo.com

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Of God Himself can no man think. And therefore I would leave all that thing that I can think, and choose to my love that thing that I cannot think.

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Slavoj Žižek

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

Goes On, Participate, Pseudo, Today, Urge

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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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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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Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.

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