Zizek is a fucking genius. He is not in my ideological camp but I can’t avoid admiring somebody who packs so much brilliance into every sentence.
In his most recent book he says that Ayn Rand’s fantasy of creative capitalists on strike came true during the Occcupy Wall Street protests. Of course, the protesters were not the exploited and the downtrodden like they claimed to be. Rather, they were the exploiters upset that their chance to exploit was slipping away. Which is also what I was saying from the start, albeit not nearly as elegantly.
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