Slavoj Žižek & Yuval Noah Harari | Should We Trust Nature More than Ourselves?
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Published 2022-07-18
In a lively discussion between Slavoj Žižek and Yuval Noah Harari, the two thinkers debate extremist ideology, our role in nature, the notions of good and evil, and catastrophes of the past. The conversation is moderated by Günes Taylor, and was filmed on June 2, 2022 as part of the HowTheLightGetsIn Festival.
Timestamps
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:15 Humans or Nature: Who Should We Put Our Trust In?
00:03:10 You Can Never Violate the Laws of Nature
00:05:23 We Associate Nature with a Pattern that Humans Interrupt
00:10:26 At Least in Some Catastrophe We Can Find Meaning
00:12:08 The Worn-Out Nature Debate Against Homosexuality
00:14:03 ‘Good’ is Often a Misconstrued Concept
00:14:04 Even Buddhism Can be Used to Justify Death
00:18:53 Should We Think of Earth as a Resource?
0020:40 If Something is Good an Extreme Version Must be Better
00:24:53 The Loophole in Deep Ecologist Thinking
00:28:29 Hegel: How Extreme Intentions Contradict Themselves
00:29:40 Is the Idea of Moderation Built into Nature & the Ecosystem?
00:30:40 Equilibrium in Nature
00:33:00 Stalin: The Social Engineer
00:34:14 How Many Scientists Aren’t Seeing the Full Picture
00:42:25 What is Freedom?
00:42:29 How Far Can We Upgrade Until We Downgrade?
00:45:42 A Stalinist Joke About Money
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Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and the bestselling author of ’Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind’ (2014), ’Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow’ (2016), ’21 Lessons for the 21st Century’ (2018), and the series ’Sapiens: A Graphic History’ (launched in 2020, co-authored with David Vandermeulen and Daniel Casanave).
All Comments (21)
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This lady is like someone out of Star Wars.
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Slavoj is so chaotic, I love it. Truly refreshing to have him in television.
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it's good to see Slavoj is in a good shape. God bless to both of them.
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It's difficult to follow Zizek thoughts but when you get it, wow!
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Wow - how often have I‘ve looked at my shelf and wondered: What if Harari and Žižek had a talk? Can‘t wait to listen to this!
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I conclude: you always have to take the middle ground, but not always because that would be extreme.
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I’m so glad they have these conversations. I tried reading Zizek and that’s a whole different deal.
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Thank you for the session.
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She was the perfect host for this. I don't think many hosts out there could have handled these two so well.
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Very well put at the end by Slavoj Zizek. There will be a few people who control most of the people. And this all in the name of good intentions. Here we go again...
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after watching this in one sit, i think i'm ready to declare myself as genious
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What Žižek was saying at around minute 29 totally agrees with the many ideas that math of non-linear and chaotic systems tells us, what we expect from a point on a new balance big unbalance can occur
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Yuval’s is an approachable brilliance; Slavoj is a genius.
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Thank you for sharing, always gets me thinking and revisiting my ideas 🙏
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Simply fascinating! You learn so much with these debates.... very good!
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"Anything that is possible is by definition also natural" - Very interesting statement from Harari!
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Yuval and Zizek were of course great, but also kudos to the moderator, she did great. Excellent job to everyone involved in this conversation. Greetings from Monterrey, México.
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Love you both! Well done!
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Slavoj and the favorite child of the DEVlL. Knowingly or unknowingly Slavoj has stepped and is walking on the dark side.
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That was a great talk, thanks for sharing this
