also how he spent his entire opening argument talking about how he couldn't understand it

jesus christ lmao

  • quartz242 [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Alright so I've listened to this once and it's hard to fucking understand everyone. Also the audience is really annoying.

    What I got out of it was that Peterson hyper focused on semantics of the communist manifesto and made no actual attempt at discussing happiness in relation to a capitalist or communist government.

    Peterson did not address the litany of points that zizek made regarding how capitalism by its nature does not nurture happiness as an individual is reduced to their labor. They both agree in that happiness is spontaneous and relative to the individual.

    They agree that money cannot buy happiness and zizek puts forth that the economic systems of socialist nations result in greater happiness by virtue of the fact that people are not wholly commodified by their labor output.

    In the end the debate is a wonderful framing of the benefits of leaving capitalism behind.

    I had it on in the background while I ran and made the time pass quickly but my brain hurt trying to understand the wettest mouth on the planet, zizek.

    If I'm wrong please help me