Zizek/ Wikileaks

[Richard Fiero]

Ian Livingston wrote:
> > I can't find any examples of this but can easily identify several
> > counterexamples: the presidency of George W Bush, Sarah Palin and the
> > resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, the Vietnam war, Iraq and Afghanistan, and
> > so on.
> >
>
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>I'm not sure I follow you here. Are you saying the Ku Klux Klan is an
>example of an individual that develops a values system independently
>of a group he or she admires? And that George Bush and Sarah Palin are
>likewise examples of the same?
. . .
These are people who do not have values but have had some popularity 
certainly not due to consciousness but to the funding behind them as 
they shill for the plutocrats.
There is nothing conscious at work here. This is motivation by animal 
spirits that work quite well under the rules of a fair game. The only 
consciousness here is making the rules fair. No biting, no punching 
below the belt, ballots instead of bullets and so on. That part is an 
anathema to all you free marketers.