#127 - Obscene Totalitarians: Slavoj Zizek on the Bhagavad Gita, Ideological Guilt, the Third Reich, and Stalin's Perverse Legacy

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don't know what we really want. What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But to dream about it. Happiness is for opportunists. So I think that the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle, especially struggle with oneself. If you want to remain happy, just remain stupid. Authentic masters are never happy; happiness is a category of slaves.” ― Slavoj Žižek, Interview with the Guardian, October 2014 -//- Original YouTube: https://youtu.be/lorX77nu3Jk Published April 2024 by Seton Hall University https://www.youtube.com/@setonhall

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