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Summarizing (in fairly clear English)

Slavoj Žižek, gives a YouTube lecture that is relatively short, on freedom, and I will summarise

each paradigm within’ this blog

I sped the dialouge in the video up, obviously. Just reiterating.

I will also give some opinions or agree/disagree

However, first, I will present some quotes I love from Žižek so if you don’t know him this will give you some what of an introduction.

If you are unaware of the kind of philosopher Zizek s and what perspective he comes from (he is one of the great philosophers of our time and is still alive and is from Slovenia, which is a very forward-thinking area of the world in my opinion), hopefully, these quotes will give you an idea of who he is and his position politically.

He is a Marxist and probably an atheist of some kind, and he is a lover of German philosopher Hegel (Phenomenology of the Spirit), and psychologist Sigmund Freud (a love we share; Freud is very important in my opinion):

ZIZEK SAYS:

“Perversion is to be looked down upon, but hysteria is celebrated instead.”

“Bill Gates and Elon Musk are the truly dangerous ones in my opinion. All they want is socialism.”

“Experts are by definition the servants of those in power; they don’t really think, they just apply their knowledge to problems defined by the powerful.”

“The proper way for the woman to test the man’s love is thus to ‘betray’ him at a crucial moment in his career.”

“And this is what we should do today when we find ourselves bombarded with sensationalised images of violence, war and conflict. We need to “learn, learn, and learn” what causes this violence.”

“A BREAKTHROUGH HAS TO APPEAR AS EVIL FIRST. EVERYTHING IS EVIL IN IT’S FIRST STAGES”

-       SLAVOJ ZIZEK: Giving a lecture on Adam and Eve, evil and knowledge at NYU. (With a feminist lecturer who (from what I could tell) lived in Brooklyn Williamsburg. She was the cause of it getting super white and politcally correct and causing all the interesting people to move to Austin or thereabouts)

A LETTER TO NYU BY VIVIAN V

DEAR NEW YORK UNIVERSITY CIRCA NINE YEARS AGO,
Can I just condemn you please NYU? Circa nine years ago, for having all men ask Zizek questions (which is fine) and then, as the last male asks a question, the speaker announces, “no sorry! There hasn’t been any females asking questions yet, so we will go with this woman here please…..Please this woman wants to ask a question…..shhh.” And I assume she has comes up to the mic and then she speaks, and I wasn’t watching just listening, and I hear a males voice again, and think, what the hell? Ohhhh because, it is a trans woman.

So, no females asked questions that day.

I have no dislike for the trans women, what I didn't like and what I found to be insulting and patornising about that incident, was that they made such a big deal out of allowing a female to ask a question and shir……..For it to not be a female.

Why is it ok for men to patornise women using transwomen as their weapon to do so? Because this is what that felt like it was. I can't help but feel its a new wave of mysogony.

Like, there are females in this room, but we are going to choose the woman who was born a male and make a big deal about allowing her to ask a question, but the woman born female, no we would never do this for you. You are females are all adults, you should have asked questions when you had the chance too. (Which I agree with......But doesn't that go for the transwoman as well? Don't you idiots or love equality and all that shit?).

Love V xoxo

PREDATOR

(I was nine years ago!)

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Side note concerning the snake from Adam & Eve: I think that the tree of knowledge of good and evil, is misplaced in the Garden of Eden, obviously. Is it a portal? And if this is true, is the snake constantly sitting on the edge of good and evil? How horrible this would be.

I personally feel, I have sat on the edge of good and evil for a few weeks like the snake, and while it was (kind of) bliss, a lot of the time, there was something fundamentally wrong with this cautious feeling of bliss I was experiencing.

My Pre-Frontal Cortex (PFC), which is a very strong part of my brain that monitors actively all my actions and/or choices, was talking to me, but it had been turned down. Because little did I know, I was losing feeling in my Frontal Lobe (FL), dulling the voice of my PFC, as my FL slowly went numb. By the end of (I think around) one week, (I’m not sure though because I was fast losing track of time), I felt like I had a hole in my brain, on the left side (my left side) of my head, just above my head to the front a little (my FL).

It was so obscene, I remember texting a friend and saying, “I have a hole in my head lol.”

In any case, this I can’t prove to you, you just must believe in the authenticity of my words, which I don’t expect you to do.

By and large, because it had dulled the usually very active part of my life and body, my PFC, things started going down-hill very fast after that. I ended up in the ultimate place of knowledge and good and evil yet again, where the snake sat that day when the snake met Eve. Sitting on the tree of knowledge of good and evil, in psychosis, slowly being pulled down to hell by the evil of my spirit. (I don’t expect you to believe this either, but it happened).

If you have ever been in a psychosis and remembered it, you would understand what I mean, but maybe never likened it to Adam and Eve (lol) metaphor/snake metaphor. I love metaphor.

There is a room in The Vatican, where the pope goes every week to worship his and their God, or whatever. The room is dominated by the snake. The snake is gliding over the top of the church ceiling in a beautiful stained-glass artwork, and the snake’s fangs are spearing down into the sides of the stage, which is where the Pope sits, in the middle of the fangs. Behind the Pope, there is a huge (in my opinion) ugly big sculpture of what looks like Jesus raising from the dead or hell maybe, and there are all these dark figures trying to pull him back down(that was my soul during this process, and the snake was my PFC). I assume and what it looks like, is the snake is freeing Jesus from hell, like the snake freed Adam and Eve from Paradise……. I don’t know that’s what I conclude.

Long story short even though it’s already long (it was the wrong guy-aiaiaiiiii…..You will only get that if you are a really big Taylor Swift fan soz), I was raised up from evil thanks to the strong reason of my PFC, and my soul at this point, is so used to listening to it, it did in the end. It rebelled at first a few times, but luckily it was talked sense into, and I came out of this hell that I had got myself into. (It was circumstantial).

How did this start: Short answer, ALOT OF EMOTIONAL PAIN. Maybe the worst melancholy and emotional pain I’ve ever been in, in my life, in very short time (5 seconds until psychosis started). It came on very fast, and I believe I probably have PTSD from it, because I’m still recovering two years later.

Since then, the snake has always been a point of fascination for me in the parable of Adam and Eve and particularly the relationship between Eve and the Snake. My Reflection called Predator (Conwell 2024), has me explaining a six-year period of my life in which I was at war, metaphorically likening it to the relationship between Eve and the Snake and the Snake’s relationship with reality. I’m featuring a reading of it by Samantha, a partitioned audio book reading of my non-ficton reflection called Predator, on this podcast, chapter by chapter over the next two monthes. I only write non-fiction. I have done one chapter, a few out of order here and there, but starting from one and going through not until the end. It’s not finished yet, well maybe it is. You tell me.  

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SLAVOJ ZIZEK ON DIFFERENT PARAGDIGMS OF FREEDOM  

(video for this lecture can be found on YouTube and watched before or after. It’s of no matter)

A explanation of Slavoj Zizek’s explanation, from my perspective (however, I tried to just interpret it with no bias, if I have an opinion I will state that before I write it and you can choose to read it or not. Comment freely but not free(you must be a member to comment), if you agree or not with me or Zizek)

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INTRODUCTION - THE SLAVOJ ZIZEK HOW TO BECOME FREE LECTURE & BLOG ABSTRACT BY VIVIAN V

Zizek’s main point over all, seems to be that freedom has rules one must abide by in order to truly be free. Which is an ironic or self-contradictory point, and I think Zizek enjoys this about it.

I personally, have understood this for some time, however I have never explicitly thought about it in so many plain words, but I would always agree feverishly that discipline is freedom. Because it is! I felt it and it was beautiful. It was the beginning of my main breakdown/breakthrough I think, experiencing freedom in such a free-less existence. “I was milk without the cream.”

However, discipline allowed me to just be black coffee for a short moment or two and it was nice. Xanax, used to give me this feeling also and it used to corrupt me with power and evil-ness.

What kind of freedom do I dream of? U