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It is not enough to say the 'some intellecuals' are not cutting the mustard in organizing. If he was as relevant as so many here would want to invent that he is, he would be openly calling for an international general strike. That is what we need right now!
Two people on Canadian Dimension talking about a Canadian national general strike is not enough. We need a general strike around the world. Greece, Portugal, and Spain are heating up right now; lets make it worldwide.
http://canadiandimension.com/articles/4027/
Why would Zizek not get involved? Oh yeah, he is probably too busy writing up copy for the next Abercrombie & Fitch/Fetch catalog.
It is not enough to say the 'some intellecuals' are not cutting the mustard in organizing. If he was as relevant as so many here would want to invent that he is, he would be openly calling for an international general strike. That is what we need right now!
Two people on Canadian Dimension talking about a Canadian national general strike is not enough. We need a general strike around the world. Greece, Portugal, and Spain are heating up right now; lets make it worldwide.
http://canadiandimension.com/articles/4027/
Why would Zizek not get involved? Oh yeah, he is probably too busy writing up copy for the next Abercrombie & Fitch/Fetch catalog.
Here is somone who is relevant and understandable; Christian Parenti.
http://www.nationbooks.org/book/234/Tropic%20of%20Chaos
Oddly enough the blurb does not mention that he has also written for Z Magazine, probably where he first became prominent.
F93k I'm depressed. Somebody get me some Genetically modified fried chicken, fifa on a big screen tv, strippers, and a couple of iphones to disctract me from all this. Call me a taxi to bring me back to home. Crank the AC, the mild summer we're having reminds me of global warming, let's have a zipless f##k. I love the smell of air blowing throught the vents, It reminds me of my mother...Damn, I'm stressed out. Let's go to vegas baby. Bring the glitz and bling, give 'em our money, there's an ice age coming anyway. let's be firecrackers. I ain't spending the last day of the world listening to any more self-righteous diatribes online. I ain't going out in a pedantic drivel..let's go out with a bang. What could be more fun?
"Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them."
"Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance."
"Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe."
"Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material."
Susan Sontag
Thanks for that ebodyknows. Very enjoyable.
I'm really feeling a sapping of my vital bodily fluids. Too much flouride in my toothpaste? Perhaps I shouldn't swallow. lol.
Really? This is in response to what I have posted? Just another self-indictment from the po-mo crowd.
That is the problem with defenders of Zizek is they want to play this juvenile game of being on both sides without taking any responsibility - "oh he is really saying something important" to "oh he is just a clown so there is nothing wrong." Pretty much the defense of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh.
Either you can come up with a real defense of Zizek or you cannot. Thus far, you cannot. Poetry and parlour games diversions, notwithstanding.
2dawall, I think you are being gently teased. Your #90 has a bit of the earnestness of ONE WHO HAS JUST READ UP ON PEAK OIL about it - which may or may not be the case. Likewise, I wonder why you're bothering to grind your anti-po-mo axe here, I don't think you'll find much argument.
Actually I was referring to a whole slew of things but not necessarily peak oil; oil drilling still depleats the acquifer of locations regardless of how much oil is left. And can you speak for ebodyknows or can even ebodyknows speak for ebodyknows?
No, the frustration lies with the constant refrain of that cliche "everybody knows" which is as destructive as it is meaningless.
No, I read about Hubbard's peak quite awhile ago. The issue of oil itself goes well beyond that, well below that, and well above that.
Really?
Aaaaaand: scene!