Originally Posted by amplify

Zizek is discussing Jean-Jacques Rousseau's huge novel Julie, or the New Heloise.

"We should, rather, risk a somewhat naive historicist-Marxist solution to the final deadlock of Julie; what if the Clarens cure/sublation fails not because of some ontological incompatibility between love and virtuous social order, but because the social order at Clarens is in fact a proto-totalitarian heirarchical-pedagogic nightmare, the realization of a fantasy proper to the despotic pre-revolutionary Enlightenment?"

I'm pretty sure you could completely remove proto-totalitarian heirarchical-pedagogic from that sentence and not affect its meaning. Why is the proposed solution necessarily naive, historicist, or Marxist? He is merely saying that the novel ostensibly is about the incompatibility of love and social norms, but the society it depicts is sick. He acts as though he makes a very deep point here. He does not.

He did a sublime job of breaking down the dialectic of Kung Fu Panda though. He talked about that movie for ten pages and it was awesome.

Originally Posted by TheNothing

POGger Parent's Kid Conversation of the Day:

We are at the theater, watching previews before Madagascar 3 & they show the upcoming Katy Perry Documentary preview. "Firework" is playing & I look over at my 4 year old daughter. She is up on her knees in her chair, shaking her hands in the air, dancing, smiling. I ask her "Do you wanna see that movie?" She opens her eyes super wide & she screams "YES!".

My six year old son then yells at me, "I WILL NEVER WATCH THAT MOVIE! EVER!" He had his mad face on, like he'd rather die than watch it.

Originally Posted by TheNothing

POGger Parent's Kid Conversation of the Day:

We are at the theater, watching previews before Madagascar 3 & they show the upcoming Katy Perry Documentary preview. "Firework" is playing & I look over at my 4 year old daughter. She is up on her knees in her chair, shaking her hands in the air, dancing, smiling. I ask her "Do you wanna see that movie?" She opens her eyes super wide & she screams "YES!".

My six year old son then yells at me, "I WILL NEVER WATCH THAT MOVIE! EVER!" He had his mad face on, like he'd rather die than watch it.

Originally Posted by Sun Tzu

your son is awesome

take your daughter back if you still have the receipt

Originally Posted by dkgojackets

have i mentioned how pathetic selfbanning is yet

Originally Posted by dkgojackets

who the hell would want to stay in cleveland?

Originally Posted by amplify

keep mentioning it dk, eventually someone might give a ****

Originally Posted by kioshk

I'm on the record as being very tolerant and nonjudgmental. Live and let live, I often say.

Originally Posted by pwnsall

As long as you're American