symbol, desire, depression

Lottie 2022-11-15 19:19:14

1. Žižek cites the movie "Full Metal Jacket" to illustrate that there is a kind of "eroticism" in that coercive, non-negotiable organization. In "Full Metal Jacket," this "eroticism" is externalized through the military's absurd, filthy slogans. 2. Individuals must keep a distance from this mandatory, inseparable, and symbolic organization. Just like Uncle Qi said that the devil-like officer may be an honest man at home. If you fully embrace this symbolic meaning, without any distance, you will end up breaking down like that fat soldier and committing suicide. 3. Who would feel comfortable in such an organization? mental illness. real psychosis. I can say responsibly that every person who is full of chicken blood in modern organizations is a mental patient. 4. This also agrees with Han Bingzhe's statement that modern organizations are self-sacrificing and the cradle of depression. 5. Uncle Qi also said that bureaucratic organizations are the only divine things in modern society. They serve nothing and bring tension and pleasure. So, you professional dogs crawling in front of it. 6. If you recognize too many symbolic meanings, you can easily fall into hysteria, like me. Uncle Qi's imitation of the Titanic at the end is almost as cute as Yue Yunpeng.

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  • Slavoj Zizek: We usually think that military discipline - is just a matter of mindlessly following orders. Obeying the rules. You don't think you do what is your duty. It's not as simple as that. If we do this, we just become machines.

  • Slavoj Zizek: The truly disturbing thing about The Dark Knight - is that it elevates lie into a general social principal, - into the principal of organisation - of our social political life. As if our societies can remain stable, - can function, only if based on a lie. As if telling the truth, and this telling the truth - embodies in Joker means distraction. Disintegration of the social order.