As an experiment I loved a man who had nothing in common with me. We attempted to live and let live. His ideas were to be his ideas and my ideas were to be my ideas. However, I soon discovered that we could not exist simultaneously. His ideas were antagonist to mine. He was an adversary.In the interest of debate he sparred with me and told me I was totalitarian if I could not recognize his right to have his views. I tried to explain to him that his views were only sustainable if I annihilated myself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJPhA9TGRls
so if we combine the annihilation with what Zizek says, then the universe goes back to "normal", is that it?
ReplyDeleteHi Greenpeace,
ReplyDeleteI think what I liked about Zizek's formulation was that he seems to be saying that the way we understand love is to like things as they are. For Zizek, love whether for the world or a 'fragile' individual may in fact be a violent act and in fact hating the world or what an individual stands for, might infact be a more...'humane'(the correct word fails me here) response or paradoxically an act of love?