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Why do the Chinese revere Mao instead of Deng Xiaoping?
Because they're cucked by Communism
>>1166847
It's better to have an inspirational figurehead than a boring but effective manlet as your ultimate hero when controlling a billion people
Tell me if I've got this down. I haven't read Lacan, but from arguments on 4chan and readings of several of Zizek's books, I've gotten this out of him.
1. Psychoanalysis
Lacan refers to his theories as being psychoanalytical, and he ran a psychoanalytic practice. He saw his work as a rejection of Freud that was meant to patch up the holes in Freud's theories. Whether or not he succeeded, and whether or not the method he used was valid, is debatable, but beside the point of this post--when Lacanians refer to "psychoanalysis," they mean either the entire history of the discourse stretching back to Freud, or the specifically Lacanian way of performing this practice. The nature of the referent depends on the context.
2. Fantasy
Our fantasies are constituent to our perception of the world. Lacanian psychoanalysis encourages us to embrace our fantasies, to the extent that this can help us attain the jouissance necessary for human flourishing or, at the very least, psychological health. (Again, whether or not this works is beside the point, I'm just trying to understand Lacan's claims.) The Fantastic plays a significant role in the process whereby man is subjugated by power, interpolated into an ideology or religion, and relates to his fellow humans and himself psychologically. The human need to embrace the Fantastic is a key part of Lacanian psychoanalysis, which we might call post-rational for its rejection of Freud's antipathy toward religion and the primitive. The Fantastic lies beyond the order of symbolism; compare it to the superego, in terms of the way it works as a conditioner of the ego.
(contd)
3. The Real
The Real is the sum of the basic, visceral sensations that give rise to the sense of self, the things that cannot be symbolized or properly integrated into the Fantastic order, which exists in part to cope with what goes on on the level of the Real.
4. The Symbolic
All of this is mediated by the symbolic order, which is in fact, as language conceived in a very broad sense, the essence of consciousness. Essentially, we can get lost in the symbolic and lose touch with the relationship between the Real and the Fantastic. The point of Lacanian psychoanalysis,...
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>>1166795
Why do you have to try to define psychoanalysis? When Lacanians refer to "psychoanalysis," they refer to psychoanalysis, kind of like how dermatologists refer to dermatology when they say dermatology.
Your understanding of Lacan is pretty awful and clearly and severely constrained by your not having read Freud, Lacan, or any psychoanalysis. It sounds like you are literally trying to reconstruct what Lacan might read written based on the 4 words you are trying to explicate. I guess that pretty much describes...
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>>1166820
I literally say that that's what I'm trying to do. Could you maybe correct me, instead of just being confrontational? I'm trying to be corrected.
Turk here
Educate me on the Empire of my ancestors
>>1166602
>>1166602
First thing you must know that you subjugated a lot of people, whose kids are now bitter shit posters in 4chins, Case in point in first post.
>>1166790
Grand grand grand children if anything. And most of us don't really like turks in the first place so yeah
Can someone go into broader detail as to why Clinton was able to have arguably the greatest economy of any president ever? I usually hear people say "tech-bubble", but what other factors play into it? I know he decreased welfare, raised taxes on the wealthy, and ended up with a surplus on the deficit by the time he left office.
>>1166560
The New Economy.
>he term applied to the digital economy, and particularly to the use of the internet; as with the phrases "New Politics" and "New Media," it points at the enormous potential of the world of digital communications to change how people live and participate in society. The "New Economy" rose in response to the flow of technology, much of it developed by government, and to an economic program which history will call "Rubinomics." What...
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>>1166604
The investment deficit and budget deficit together create conditions in which real wages do not increase as quickly and there is less growth in the kind of upwardly mobile employment that people need. This situation also creates incentives for government to tax consumption, both because this reduces the trade deficit, and because the wealthy cannot be taxed. This creates a wages deficit. The wages deficit, in turn, gives people an incentive to borrow more, particularly against their homes. This creates a wealth deficit,...
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>>1166606
Democratic politics since 1978 has consisted of a series of attempts to find a way to break this cycle. Carter tried direct conservation, to end the energy deficit. Mondale wanted to raise taxes and investment in the US, to break the wages and wealth deficit. By the time Clinton was elected, however, there was a broad consensus that there could not be a direct attack on these problems. Clinton himself tried to attack the problem directly by proposing an energy tax, but this met with tremendous resistance and was dropped....
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I was always fascinated with the Ancient Egyptian civilization. The monumental architecture, the mysterious religion, the society, the mummies, the hieroglyphs, all the iconography. All the gold and black diorite and lapis lazuli.
But why does the Ancient Egypt seem so alien? Is it because it's not something we Europeans have around so we're not familiar with it? It's far away in an exotic land buried by sands in shade of palm trees.
Akenaton did nothing wrong
>>1166289
No. Its alienness is due to ignorance, and that ignorance is mostly due to deliberate tergiversation of history, and chronology, and occlusion of truth.
Alienness has nothing to do with geographical distance; that would be absurd; if that were so, anything beyond your immediate purview would feel alien to you. Use your fucking mind.
>>1166289
>Is it because it's not something we Europeans have around so we're not familiar with it? It's far away in an exotic land buried by sands in shade of palm trees.
Nigger go to a museum, even a backwater shithole town with no proper sewerage system has at least one sarcophagus and legendary pharaoh. There's probably more ancient obelisks in Europe and America then there are in Egypt at this point.
Isn't it funn how the nuclear weapon is both the greatest development for peace AND war?
Nothing else has made the idea of war more terrible nor peace more desirable.
We're really skating on thin ice though. I mean, we already came pretty close to disaster during the cuban missile crisis.
>>1166281
Daily reminder that deterrence doesn't work, and the only reason we're still alive is due to human nature
Eventually though making nuclear weapons will become too easy and some cultists/nutjobs decide to blow up Earth. "Balance of terror" works only if all parties with nuclear weapons care about self-preservation.
But then again.... It might be really peaceful after that.
So that school of life youtube channel added a Voltaire video last weekend.
What does /his/ think of it?
>>1166087
forgot link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAzKGkTIKpg
>>1166087
Racist as fuck
>It is a serious question among them whether the Africans are descended from monkeys or whether the monkeys come from them. Our wise men have said that man was created in the image of God. Now here is a lovely image of the Divine Maker: a flat and black nose with little or hardly any intelligence. A time will doubtless come when these animals will know how to cultivate the land well, beautify their houses and gardens, and know the paths of the stars: one needs time for everything.
Would socrates smoke weed?
>>1165799
I doubt it. Even back then, it would be intuitive that smoke inhalation would have some form of negative impact on the body, and socrates was pretty in tune with fitness requirements. So, I'd say no.
No, it clouds and dulls the mind.
![Wittgenstein[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/qzd4rf0.jpg "Wittgenstein[1].jpg")
he was autistic right? like legit autism
>>1165659
Was Wittgenstein gay? He seems like one.
>>1165683
No but Foucault was, shame two of the most handsome philosophers ever were both degenerates.
he fucking claimed to slove fucking philosophy and spended some years of his life designing fucking door handles. Totally confirmed.
I'm interested in reading the primary sources for Roman antiquity. Can anybody give me a guide to who/how/order to read the primaries? Also, any good primary source recommendations regardless of time period are welcome. Share interesting anecdotes and quotes.
Livy and Tacitus are primary for the Empire.
People like the Plinies, Appian, Juvenal and Plutarch are also from roughly that time.
If you're looking for primaries from the republic, try Cicero and Polybius, but there's not much in that way, I don't think.
Anything earlier than that is a laughable notion, because all the earlier histories were destroyed
>>1165617
Livy?
He gives more into narrative over fact.
But Polybius is a great choice.
>>1165623
The assumption goes that you have to assume that Livy romanticized information collected from existing Histories that he had access too, like one of those modern books that try to give flavor to History.
That said, anything contemporary to him is lost, so he isn't really a primary.
He was a Roman, but he wrote about history ancient to him.
I actually don't know why I said him, but whatever
Was he based?
Better than Lenin the retard
>>1165571
Yes.
>>1165571
Absolutely. Purged Jews from the USSR, industrialized Russia, and kicked Hitler's shit in.
I want to visit Georgia someday.
>Genesis 6:4
>There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
What did he mean by this?
>>1165366
It's pretty clear what it means. It also explains why so many cultures have myths about giants.
Neanderthals
6'4''
When did propaganda become a thing?
Also just post cool propaganda
It's always been a thing anon.
"they're not like us" helps your warrior tribe in several ways. It dehumanizes your opponents so you can do horrible shit to them, and it makes your own feel less guilty about the horrible shit they're doing. At least for awhile.
Propaganda has likely literally been around since we crawled out of the ooze to fight with each other for resources.
The Golden Age of propaganda was WWI+II tho.
>>1165352
>When did propaganda become a thing?
>>1165891
This.
Can someone explain to me the origins of English/Irish animosity? What led the English to oppress and the Irish to resist, for so long? The Scotts and Welsh nationalities succumbed quickly to the Crown, and both have more in common with the Gaelic people than the Anglos. Why did the Irish resist being British even as it benefited her neighbors so much more?
Celtic culture vs. Norman and Germanic culture.
Scotland and Wales are physically closer and were thus easier to subjugate.
Catholicism vs. Protestantism.
>>1165293
Well the first thing to remember - which nobody ever does - is that the first Anglo-Norman expedition was INVITED into Leinster to help the king there, and Strongbow was married into the king's family and promised the inheritance of the Kingdom of Leinster in return for his military aid.
Secondly, the 'oppression' as such did not really begin until the rise of Protestantism - for 1169 until the 1500s, Ireland was essentially an autonomous marcher province of the English kingdom.
Finally,...
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>>1166405
Irish Rebellion of 1798 happend before the Act of Union y'know
Was facism/communism emergence in non Western societies a European invention? What forms emerged distinct from obvious Soviet/Chinese communist and Nazi/Franco/Italian facist influence?
This is what Britain will look like if Al gore doesnt win
>>1165206
Communism and Fascism are at heart, European ideologies that were born out of the conditions in Europe in the late 19th early 20th centuries. Everyone who imitated it overseas was going off the European blueprints. Ho
Chi Min even became a Communist while studying electrical engineering in Paris.
>>1165247
>Belfast capital of Eire
IRA BTFO.
>>1165247
This has to be the most convincing argument I've ever seen to start fighting against the ecologists.
