Slavoj Zizek Quotes

Better To Do Nothing Than To Engage In Localized Acts Whose Ultimate Function Is To Make The System Run More Smoothly. The Threat Today Is Not Passivity, But Pseudo-activity, The Urge To "be Active", To "participate", To Mask The Nothingness Of What Goes On. People Intervene All The Time, "doing Something"; Academics Participate In Meaningless "debates," Etc.; But The Truly Difficult Thing Is To Step Back, To Withdraw From It All. Those In Power Often Prefer Even "critical" Participation Or A Critical Dialogue To Silence, Since To Engage Us In Such A "dialogue" Ensures That Our Ominous Passivity Is Broken. The "Bartlebian Act" I Propose Is Violent Precisely Insofar As It Entails Ceasing This Obsessive Activity-in It, Violence And Non-violence Overlap (non-violence Appears As The Highest Violence), Likewise Activity And Inactivity (the Most Radical Thing Is To Do Nothing).

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