"We are forced to live as if we were free"
— John Gray (quoted by Slavoj Zizek on First as Tragedies then as Farce)
beingbornisgoingblind:
Charity is the humanitarian mask hiding the face of economic exploitation. — Slavoj Zizek
noam-chomsky:
That’s a very interesting question. It has an interesting history. The World Trade Organization, the Uruguay round that set up the World Trade Organization imposed, it’s called a “free trade agreement”. It’s in fact a highly protectionist agreement. The US is strongly opposed to free trade, just…
"sometimes, the repetition in the guise of a farce can be more terrifying than the original tragedy."
— Herbert Marcuse (quoted by Slavoj Zizek on First as Tragedies then as Farce)
"the paradox is that the members of this global class “dine privately, shop privately, view art privately, everything is private, private, private"
— Slavoj Zizek on First as Tragedies then as Farce
"Kierkegaard deployed his idea that we humans cannot ever be sure that we believe: ultimately, we only “believe that we believe"
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Kierkegaard (quoted by Slavoj Zizek on “First as Tragedies then as Tragedies”)
"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great events and characters of world history occur, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce"
— Karl Marx, “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte:’ in Surveys From Exile, edited and introduced by David Pernbach (quoted by Slavoj Zizek on “First as Tragedies, then as Farce”)
"RAPBN Menteri Agama lebih besar dari Menteri Kesehatan. Artinya makin banyak orang masuk surga dan makin banyak yg masuk rumah sakit."
"‘“aku” dan “kamu” adalah modus kebersamaan yg tak lepas dari perbedaan, menjadikan satu menyangkali eksistensi/kedirian kita sendiri."
— @tommyfawuy
"Anggota DPR memberi nama dirinya sendiri: “wakil rakyat”. Tetapi yang dia maksud: “atas nama rakyat, saya berkuasa!” Berkuasa terhadap siapa? Sangat aneh bila jawabannya: “terhadap rakyat”. Hukum identitas akan menertawakan logika itu: pesuruh menyuruh penyuruh? Ajaib!"
— Rocky Gerung — Rahim Laki-Laki
"Tuhan pun kita beri nama, supaya kita dapat memperalatnya. Memperalat artinya kita menguasainya. Bila kita berseru “atas nama-Nya”, kita memperalat-Nya, untuk apa saja yang kita maui. Terutama, merasa berhak mengkafirkan orang lain"
— Rocky Gerung — Rahim Laki-Laki
"Ia akan bertindak dengan bebas jika ia tahu tentang apa yang diinginkan, dipikirkan dan dirasakan. Tapi masalahnya ialah bahwa ia tidak tahu, dan karenan itu ia akan menyesuaikan diri dengan penguasa-penguasa yang tidak dikenal dan ia akan mengiyakan hal-hal yang tidak disetujuinya."
— Erich Fromm — Escape from Freedom