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In The Examined Life, Zizek argues that we need to embrace the whole world including our artificial, technological, created self and products. Pastoral romanticism and New Age mysticism are a form of ideological mystification and alienation.
haha. Zizek certainly is one of America's greatest philosopher. I just can't get over his accent, it can be a little tiring to hear him talk too long. But his writings and visions are superb.
Is ecology turning into religion? I feel that sometimes too. Ecology is at the heart of North American and European Left, but the progressive left has to balance the following two agendas--eradicating poverty in the 3rd world and thus lowers population growth,
Ecology can really contradict itself if it ignores poverty at the head-fast pursuit of environmental purity, because ecology sees overpopulation as a burden on the planet. But if there's anything that demographic studies has shown, is that as countries industrialize, the population growth rate levels off.
You decide which is worse:
Global warming
or
Failure to tap into the potential of the vast poor, and thus the opportunity cost of clean energy innovation.
The poor and the rich suffer alike from climate change; the poor and the rich suffer alike suffer from failure to eradicate poverty.
To all progressives out there: Please do not sacrifice one or the other, or bad execution of glorified idealism can eventually shoot ourselves in the foot.
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