What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?
Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious.
The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to “be active”, to “participate”, to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.
If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.
I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating.
Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.
As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy.
Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.
Why are so many problems today perceived as problems of intolerance, rather than as problems of inequality, exploitation, or injustice? Why is the proposed remedy tolerance, rather than emancipation, political struggle, or even armed struggle?
For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even better. The further away we go, the more they deserve respect. This is a kind of inverted, patronising respect that puts everyone at a distance.
Often, the worst way to become prisoner of a system is to have a dream that things may turn better, there is always the possibility of change. Because it is precisely this secret dream that keeps you enslaved to the system.
The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream.
As soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.
You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.
Global capitalism is simply accepted as a fact that you cannot do anything about. The only question is, Will you accommodate yourself to it, or will you be dismissed and excluded?
I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.
A typical guy who buys organic food doesn’t really buy it in order to be healthy; he buys it to regain a kind of solidarity as the one who really cares about nature. He buys a certain ideological stance.
When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks.
Come on. I don’t have any problem violating my own insights in practice.
Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.