2024-03-24
41 分钟Today we go into a deeper explanation of ideology and dialectics. Liberal democratic capitalism is featured as a special guest. Hope you enjoy it! :) Sponsors: Nord VPN: https://www.NordVPN.com/philothis Better Help: https://www.BetterHelp.com/PHILTHIS LMNT: https://www.DrinkLMNT.com/philo Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philosophizethisshow
Hello, everyone.
I'm Stephen west.
This is philosophize this.
So I got a message a couple days ago from someone on Patreon.
His name was Andrew.
He was from Australia.
Shout out to Australia, by the way.
But he was responding to that question of what would you ask Zizek if you could ask the guy anything?
And what he said was something to the effect of, okay, Zizek, I get it.
My worldview is ideology.
I'm but a feeble human mind that needs this ideology you're talking about to give me shortcuts, shortcuts that allow me to understand my reality.
Because no human being has the mental resources to understand the full complexity of reality on its own terms.
I get that.
But isn't it also the case that whenever anyone out there does something good for the society they're in?
His example was that he does things sometimes to reduce climate change.
Don't people need the mental resources to be able to do good things like that at all?
I mean, if we just sat around obsessing over the true complexity of reality all day long, then we'd never get anything done.
In other words, don't people need ideology to be able to do anything?
He said, if you look at somebody who's a Christian, and maybe on one hand, depending on your perspective, you may see that as somebody that's immersed in an ideology, but on the other hand, he says, look, they're still feeding the homeless on Sunday, regardless of any ideology, they're still doing good things.
His question is, why should we spend the limited mental resources that we have disassembling these ideological crutches that we need?