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Fully commit to your utopia.

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Žižek preaches this poison to his groupies.

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Here’s the message: Trust your righteous
anger.

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He can’t be shackled by your precious democratic
constraints.

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Žižek said these steps “should be fully
endorsed.”

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This is the grand architect of our collectivist
utopia.

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rival political parties.

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Fast forward to the mid 2000s.

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a brutal crackdown, erecting a paramilitary
goon squad and systematically dismantling

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Socialist Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez
responds to mounting public opposition with

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Žižek loves Lenin.

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Establishing a vast terror network well before
Stalin came to power.

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imprisioning and murdering thousands,

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He delivers violence, death, and misery, erecting a
ubiquitous surveillance apparatus,

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communist utopia of “peace, land, and bread.”

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Their leader, Vladimir Lenin, unilaterally
declares himself president and promises a

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The Bolsheviks overthrow the newly-formed
democratic Russian government.

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November 1917.

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And salvation depends on the emergence of
a steely supreme overseer...

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But, there is something sinister lurking
underneath those intellectual pyrotechnics.

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The meme-able Mascot of the hipster revolutionary.

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Žižek has secured a global fame accorded
to just a microscopic slice of academics.

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But Žižek's appeal isn’t coherence, it’s
that punk rock philosopher swag.

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and, like, at least half of what comes out of his
mouth is absurd pseudo-intellectual nonsense.

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You’re supposed to pretend that this is profound.

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No, no, no, no, no. Corporate hegemons didn’t teach
you to love property rights and cheap air-travel,

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claim is that capitalism is sustained through
mass ideological indoctrination.

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Žižek has produced an avalanche of books
and starred in several movies, and his core

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gift for translating his radical politics
into tasty pop culture analogies.

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Well, then you don’t know Žižek.

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Sound impossible?

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Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher
and unabashed communist blessed with a rare

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pseudo-scientific musings of long-forgotten
French psychoanalyst, revitalize

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the single worst idea of the 20th century,
and power yourself to global superstardom.

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Here’s a challenge: Using the inscrutable
texts of an 18th century philosopher and the

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And burn down whatever, or whoever, stands
in your way.

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Embrace the strong man.