Be My Mirror, My Sword, My Shield

This is Prince Charming, cursed to wear the form of a Maine Coon until Nate and Jenny break up

Slavoj Zizek.
Interesting name. Okay, weird name, but that is subjective.
I mean, you don't expect Slovenians to have names like Bob or Gary. That would be disappointing. If you wanted names like that, you would have stayed home and watched Nickelodeon.

Anway, this guy is incredible.
He's a philosopher and cultural critic (Whatever that is. Isn't everyone a cultural critic? Especially us here in the supercultured East).
He talks about the confrontations between ideology and materialism from the aspect of ontology.
Isn't that incredible?

I mean, what the hell is ontology, right?

Incredible Thing 1

Idealism's purported ability to theorize the All VS. Materialism's understanding that an apparent All is really a non-All.

A non-All.

(Personally I find the theory a little extreme, because how can anything be a non-All. There must be a Something in Everything. But I guess it's understandable if the apparent All that we are theorising is actually non-existant, because every person's All is different and therefore to objectively state a definite, tangible All is impossible. Right?
But I still think that in each person's All is a little bit of someone else's All.

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So the only way to complete each other is to have all humans join together in a massive global hive-mind).

Incredible Thing 2

Truth, or The Real : Is the gap between knowing something materially and experiancing something in the course of our life.
The gap is the minimal difference. The Parallax View.
It's the difference betweeen knowing, eventually, that we are all going to die, and yet living as if we will never die.

That just means that everything, all the meaning in our life, everything that is real to us, it's in that gap. We're ontological freaks defined by our gaps.
We're defined by the holes in our lives that we don't even understand.

That's so unfair.

So I refuse to accept it.

How can we accept the real as something we can't see, don't know and can never understand?
(Uh oh. That sounds like the argument people use for atheism).
But why should this Parallax View, that no one can see, be the definition of us as conscious human beings?
We should be defined by the things we do, and the way we think.

Therefore.

Ignore Incredible Thing 3.

Incredible Thing 3

We can see a person as either an ethical human being of free will or a determined biological creature. But not both.

I agree that our deepest motives are subconscious.
But does that mean that it is the base motives of a biological creature or the primary motivators for an ethical being?
Are we primarily animalistic, or primarily thoughtful?

And this is assuming that all human beings are capable of ethics.
What if that person has no grasp of ethics, and cannot understand the concept nor the purpose of it?
Does that make him purely an animal? Or does it completely strip him of his right to be called a human being?
Oh. Wait. That was redundant, because both questions ask the same thing.

But anyway.

I think everyone should just screw all this, live life to the fullest and listen to Lenka's The Show.