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" I argue that the opposition between Rossini and Wagner should be conceived along the lines of two modes of sublime: the mathematical and the dynamic sublime. In order to make the point clear, I take a very basic example which I read about somewhere: that of cunnilingus. When men perform cunnilingus on women, when they strike the right note and the woman says 'yes, yes, more please!', then what usually happens is that men perform it faster and stronger - but this is a mistake. They should just do it quantitatively more. The difference is that women think in terms of the mathematical sublime - quantitatively more - whereas men think in terms of the dynamic sublime, and then they ruin it. It is an example confirmed to me by many friends. The usual mistake is that if the woman is saying 'yes, yes, that's it,' the men think they mean faster and stronger - but it's precisely not that. "
― Slavoj Žižek , Conversations with Žižek
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" What I hate about these liberal, pseudo-left, beautiful soul academics is that they are doing what they are doing fully aware that somebody else will do the job for them. For example, this goes to the absurd with many of my American friends who pretend to be left-wingers, anti-capitalist and so on, but who also play the stock market - and so they secretly count on things functioning, on stocks and share doing well, and so on. I admire people who are ready to take over and do the dirty job, and maybe this is part of my fascination with Lenin. He never adopted the position of 'oh, we are not responsible, things move differently, what can we do?' No, we are in a way absolutely responsible. This has nothing to do with conformism: quite the contrary. If you are in power, really in power, it mean something very radical. It means you have no excuse. You cannot say, 'sorry, it's not my fault.' I have considerable respect for people who don't lose their nerve; for people who know there is no way out for them. "
― Slavoj Žižek , Conversations with Žižek