[lbo-talk] Zizek's view on the embrace of ignorance

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 9:40 PM -0700 4/24/03, Mike Ballard wrote:
>Zizek indicates that people don't want to know, they like the idea 
>of being represented by a simpleton (Bush) who is manipulated behind 
>the scenes by the evil intellectual genius (Cheney) because they 
>accept that 'their' governing structures will do bad things and they 
>don't want to have to think about it.

By "people" does Zizek mean about 70% of Americans who say they 
support the war on Iraq?
-- 
Yoshie

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