Zizek is a product of his
Zeitgeist: a narcissistic entertainer who willfully collects a bounty for a
once-noble and now-marginalized enterprise which he himself deems to be “useless”,
against the admonition of his predecessors and contemporaries, even the dull
and conventional ones, but to the tremendous benefit of his celebrity, his own
ego, and his indirect pandering to an audience. He echoes the modern prejudice
that philosophy does not solve problems, whereas science does. Yet all problems
essentially begin and end in the mind, and their solution is only substantial
once it is registered consciously. Science does not solve problems; even
technology does not. They merely supply man with tools and weapons. As Zizek
himself points out, it is extremely problematic to disembody the weapon, as
Suzuki does, giving the tool all the credit and denying the one who wields it. Herein,
I criticize Suzuki even as a former Buddhist, whose insistence upon the subjectivity
of objective problems (as well as the objectivity of subjective problems) is a
Buddhistic vestige.
[({Dm.A.A.)}]
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