ARTICLE THREE

The THIRD GENERAL ARTICLE against ZIZEK, entitled:

HE LIVES!

(WE SLEEP)

We, yes, the so-called COMMITTEE FOR PLANETARY SAFETY will not condemn Mr. Slavoj Zizek for being merely pedantic and repetitive. These are only the customary symptoms of any sell-out thinker who instinctively acts as a proxy mouthpiece for the cultural mainstream. His crimes are worse. We are not concerned that he is a poseur whose ostensibly radical thinking is like candy to over-educated youths, humorous medias & Euro-soft intellectuals.

Zizek (and we are told this name is the Slovenian slang-word for "semen ejaculate") is like all populist marketers. He badgers us into death-like tedium with an endless "sales repetition" of the same old jokes, observations and... cinema references.

For the example: John Carpenter's "THEY LIVE!"

So many times the sniffling bugbear performs his hyperlinguistic zealot routine using this minor sci-fi comedy as a prop! So often to hear about the hero, John Nada demonstrates a profound truth with his adoption of the ideology-revealing sunglasses?

Flummery! Zizek would have us believe that the world is not divided neatly into the mystic's categories of (a) socially conditioned thinking (b) natural thoughtless direct perception. He denigrates humanity's ancient spiritual ideal that one can release the programming and return to the truth. No. In his mind there is always (c) the hidden ideological field which cannot be discerned by naive, unbiased vision but must be revealed by the ADDITION of a special prosthesis! Only when John Nada puts on the "x-ray glasses" can he break the spell of natural perception and enter into the demonic mechanisms which structure our social intercourse.

A revelation? Hardly. This is the same old story, isn't it? It is the myth enacted by every delusional paranoid, every reactionary nutjob, every... modern corporate citizen. The message of THEY LIVE! is pure indoctrination into the ideological myth that ideological myths structure the very form of our perception.

And, worse, in reinforces the dominant contemporary myth that a hip, progressive consumer product (anything from magical sunglasses to... a book or lecture by Slavoj Zizek) can put place into a critical-liberating relationship to the invisible protocols of the cultural dream in which you are embedded.

The true hidden messages are not so simplistic as Zizek would have us believe. He, like John Carpenter, offers us red herrings -- decoy ideologies. The idea that "Obey" and "Marry and Reproduce" and "Stay Asleep" "Find the Missing Father" are the secret social messages hidden in everything from Hollywood cinema to Stalinist propaganda is no more than the normative phantasy about the intellectual hero who pierces the veil of popular delusion. This phantasy itself is among the most popular delusions. So now we are knowing why that hero is called John Nada -- because he is the Nothing Man whose perceptions breed Nihilism.

The very obviousness of the ideological dimension in the films which attract Zizek (e.g.- his claim that Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead" is the greatest American movie) is our clue. He does not want to unveil the mechanisms which maintain our social field but rather to delude us into fascination with well-known and easily deciphered decoy ideologies. The overt appearance of cultural influence in these film functions as a direct invitation to a certain style of critique. One can hardly watch THE FOUNTAINHEAD, or THEY LIVE! or THE FALL OF BERLIN without falling into the pre-given options of "naive gullibility" and "critical gullibility."

A man with an obvious lump in his pocket who tells you that there is nothing in his pocket WANTS you to think you are outwitting him.

Thus Zizek's increasingly popular "analysis" is a last-ditch structural move by the dominant ideological system to prevent the observation of its functional mechanisms.

He is the enemy of the humanity that is trying to be born.

So:

HE MUST CONFESS!

ARTICLE TWO

Thank you.

So many letters I have received! Since I am posting ARTICLE ONE in this global library we are calling the weblike internets. Happy Tentacles of your interest have been plucked from one tip across to the far side of the electronic nervous system of the planet Earth. Many of you who people I have probably already read your letters from. And I like your points!

You want to know a lot: What is the other new exciting bad things about Slavoj Zizek, and should regular folks like them be worried about it causing problems in their lives?

Well, here's one thing, folks:

I'll be on the level with you, I am not thrilled about his "friendship" with that "French philosopher" --Alain Badiou. This Badiou character apparently says that we're all just made of numbers & don't even practically fucking exist except when we are identified with an existential wave of new good and bad possibilities ripples away from an ontological event whose present can be seen using a model of the universe in which primal multiplicity takes the charm out of the argument between continuum models and discrete multitudes models.

Thanks,jerk.

Typical Frenchman - acts like he thinks that he is God when he is thinking because his bodily potency is transposed from his actual being into his idea of his being so he thinks he is very bodily. Hence the ironic joke that French people excell at wine, women & food. They just have a spectacular Public Relations industry. Like Ronald Reagan.

Frankly, this "Badiou" is a fringe wacko-Leftist who can't get seem to fix the principles of democratic capitalist-socialism in his head with any clarity. PLUS he's obviously so desperate and vain for publicity that he is willing even to latch onto a hairy Easterner like Slavoj Zizek.

Enough already!

HE MUST CONFESS.

Next Time on "Slavoj Zizek is a Traitor to the World":

I discuss his small-to-normalish sized penis.

ARTICLE ONE

Slavoj Zizek, that Slovene thug! That sniffling bugbear of the youtube lecture circuit who masquerades as a neo-Marxist, Hitchcocking Socio-Christian who is most like "blindfolded truffling pig." Yes -- he is a trustworthy nose. How could that nose not be well informed when he presses it so deeply in the filth and then, horrible, he feels around with it???

The Citizen's COMMITTEE FOR PLANETARY SAFETY is not Mr. Zizek's enemy. He is his own enemy and we are probably the best friend he has -- for we offer him a chance for his happiest redemption. We would remove the rag which blindfolds him -- that rag is a tattered & prophetic flag of the first planetary government. It blinds him because he struggles against it. He is blind to the true natural character of each of the micro-cultural conundrums with which he obsessively occupies himself.

The reports he provides to the rest of humanity display deep structures in a credible way but the yawning chasm of the absence of any positive characterization of the human condition or its way forward he is a cripple & a peabrained lunatic from some shadowy region on the other Other Side of Germany & Italy. Probably Transylvania... who the fuck knows?

His punishment?

It should fit the crime, shouldn't it?

Let us all say:

HE MUST CONFESS!