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Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours QUOTES

Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours QUOTES

1 " The primary vice of a bad person is precisely that he is more preoccupied with others than himself. Rousseau is describing a precise libidinal mechanism: the inversion which generates the shift of the libidinal investment from the object to the obstacle itself. This could well be applied to fundamentalist violence - be it Oklahoma City Federal Building, the Twin Towers - was what really mattered, not achieving the noble goal of a truly Christian or Muslim society. "

― Slavoj Žižek , Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours

2 " In short, the truly courageous stance is to admit that the light at the end of the tunnel is most probably the headlight of a train approaching us from the opposite direction. "

― Slavoj Žižek , Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours

3 " Universality is a universality of 'strangers', of individuals reduces to the abyss of impenetrability in relation not only to others but also to themselves. [...] That's why the privileged way to reach a Neighbor is not that of empathy, of trying to understand them, but a disrespectful laughter which makes fun of them and us in our mutual lack of (self-)understanding (inclusive of 'racist' jokes) "

― Slavoj Žižek , Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours

4 " Poverty does not simply mean to have little or no money; it is not reducible to the description of one's miserable circumstances "

― Slavoj Žižek , Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours

5 " The Leftist counterpoint to this confusion is an idea circulating in the underground of many disappointed radical Leftists, a softer repetition of the decision for terror in the aftermath of the 1968 movement: the crazy idea that only a radical catastrophe (preferably an ecological one) can awaken the large crowds and in doing so give a new impetus to radical emancipation. "

― Slavoj Žižek , Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours

6 " Badiou makes it clear that what the media call the 'radicalization of Muslims is Fascistization pure and simple:

"this Fascism is the obverse of the frustrated desire for the West which is organized in a more or less military way following the flexible model of a mafia gang and with variable ideological colorizations where the place occupied by religion is purely formal. "

― Slavoj Žižek , Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours

7 " Universality is a universality of ‘strangers’, of individuals reduced to the abyss of impenetrability in relation not only to others but also to themselves. "

― Slavoj Žižek , Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours