I recommend watching this=
http://youtu.be/hpAMbpQ8J7g Slavoj Zizek investigates the surprising ethical implications of charitable giving. It touches on many discussions that have been discussed here in this thread by many (soicety, freedom, (crony) capitalism, property, property is theft, big government,taxation/charity/socialism/welfare state etc) and it reaches a nice crescendo...
Slavoj slaying it... even if you do not agree with everything he says he is a pleasure to listen to...brain nourishment.
I shared this shit out of this back when I first saw it. Cultural capitalism is such an interesting idea.
Yuck. Post Lacanian charlatan. Disconnected from reality. So passe
What are your ideas/thoughts/recommended reading/solutions/specific criticisms may I ask?
I'm not an academic so I haven't written any papers.
But during my undergrad i was neck deep in Post Modernism.
After 9/11 I went to a Zizek lecture at The New School in NYC
He said that 9/11 was a self fulfilling prophecy because Hollywood movies like Independence Day blew up buildings. At that point the audience giggled w nervous laughter. At that moment I just got sick and walked away from PoMo. Just cold hearted not to sympathize with the victims. I guess their hatred of Bush overrode any humanity they had
Just recently a friend of mine did a graduate degree in some kind of 'cultural theory'. Zizek was one of her instructors. She wrote a paper linking debt to violence and sado masochism. Some kind of sexual master slave relationship. Then she asked me to lend her $5000 cause she ran out of student loan money. LOL
This is how delusional and disconnected to reality
If you want an intellectual pursuit I do not recommend any Post Modernism. Its just a waste of time and the people around that scene are nuts
I prefer a more pragmatic philosophy in the British/ American tradition. I currently reading more economics. Mostly MMT/ Post Keynesianism