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Slavoj Žižek's documentaries "The Pervert's Guide to Ideology" and "The Pervert's Guide to Cinema"
Sut Jhally's documentaries "Dreamworlds II" and "Dreamworlds III"
"Our Consumer Society" and "How The Internet Was Stolen" by Then & Now on YouTube
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Adam Curtis documentary "Century Of The Self" (4 hours length)
Please don't recommend people zizek, that guy's a total cryptofash.
His documentaries from the past are valuable and have no issues. I consider him fine upto the Zizek-Peterson debate. With the Ukraine conflict he picked the wrong side, and I do not like him from that point onwards. Funnily, I was one of the first persons on grad who pointed it out for discussion.
That's when you noticed the guy was fucked up. He's been spouting shit long before you noticed that "oh this guy actually sucks" It would be like if you said "oh no Vaush used to be good until he started NATO simping" my brother he was always a pedo-nazi you just didn't see it because he was saying shit you agreed with. How much you agree with someone is the single worst metric you can use for trustworthiness.
It was just not me though. Plenty socialists have liked his old documentaries. And they are a good way to convey ideas. Infact, Bayarea on r/sino praised his work and said Zizek's works were one of the things that sparked his brain, arguably the best socialist tuber we ever had. And Bayarea's recommendation was what led me to check Zizek's works.
I don't know what to say. Good for you that you got something positive out of it, but who knows what kind of damage they've done as well.
I recommend you check Bayarea's archived videos, many of them are on Hopper Marxist on YouTube, to know his level. Bayarea and Hakim were more or less equal, Bayarea a bit more popular and based (dunked on BadEmpanada and Vaush a lot), until he was doxxed last year and went private.
Uh oh, what did badempanada do...?
Sometimes he had bad political takes in leftist circle.
Uh huh... Don't take this the wrong way but I'm not going to trust a zeizek offshoot over "had some bad takes" that sounds like your average cryptofash wrecker shit. Sorry, burnt hard by the la rouchites, learned not to pick any side in drama that isn't the material facts.
Bayarea is not Zizek offshoot. It is like saying Einstein is the CEO of evil because he provided the "E=mc²" formula which created atom bombs. Zizek is not some Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton or Epstein or Ghislaine.
Zizek's past documentaries are objectively good regardless of his current geopolitical leaning, and its not like he committed terrorism or did bad things to children.
You need to retune your compass because, my friend, you are completely out of touch with reality. Your argument boils down to "well he's not a serial killer rapist pedophile" which is not even remotely an acceptable argument to be making. Please rethink your path.
Zizek has criticisms, but I am not "cancelling" his great past works. Learning to absorb the good and throwing away the bad is true knowledge enlightenment. Throwing out baby with bathwater has never resulted in a net benefit. And I believe in getting more knowledge, as a digital data archivist/curator.
There is nothing that does a better job on ideology (2012) and cinema (2006) than Zizek's works. His expertise on psychoanalysis, ideology critique, media literacy and political academia is a rare deadly combination.
Have a more open mind. Do not just put a political gas mask on your brain. It is unhealthy. But then, I do not care about appeasing leftist circles, and despise liberals and rightists, so I am pretty alone on the path I walk. So you can choose to play safe, I take risks for knowledge.
I am going to continue my hardline stance against people who wield fascism because every time I laxed up on that stance, it fucked me over. Yes that means we're going to be put at odds, that's just the way things are. I shot my shot but you're all in, so whatever. I'm moving on.
I usually refer Žižek appreciators to Gabriel Rockhill: Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek
I'll save this message for the next time I need it, thanks a ton.
I am a very determined idiot. It takes a bit of crazy to use low or no filters while absorbing knowledge, while not going crazy or burning your brain out or become a bad person. Not sure there is a playbook to train yourself to be like this, other than exposing yourself to too much knowledge, so I consider it a natural gift. Humans are risk averse anyway... maybe I am not human lol. On very rare occasions I feel the brain burnout but it is an acceptable cost.