“The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.”
SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK
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sharing some provocative ideas from Slavoj Žižek on his 75th birthday (March 21st)
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