Saturday, 15 October 2011

Antiviolence

Žižek writes the On violence, it seems, as a challenge for others to pick up a fight on. Yet the very attempt to counter would be violent and thus would fail. I do see a flaw there. Yet this flaw is a break in my own ego already violated by the symptom of violence(anger).
On the other hand this antithesis is perhaps blooming to give fruit to a strong thesis for its opposites: peace and compassion.
Perhaps violence is needed, but compassion, mutual aid and pacifism are needed much more.

  • //... something about personification of violence and therefore it becomes a futile ghost; violence is
  • //committed by men not a historical force(quote from Marx, MoC).

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