Hi, this is against everyone with Connor Habib, a weekly podcast featuring my conversations with

countercultural figures and presenting complex, philosophical, spiritual, and political ideas in an

engaging and accessible way. Well, friends, before I start this episode with Vic Mensa, I want to talk

about how we get stuck in revolution.

It has a lot to do with the things that Vic and I talk about.

But to do that, I'm going to start with the revolutions in France in 1968.

Without going into almost any detail, basically these revolutions were started or at least

provoked by university students who were staging occupations to resist capitalism, consumerism,

canned and shitty art, all that kind of stuff, and their resistance spread out and led to general strikes

that began to threaten the people in power. I'm not going to tell you too much more about it.

You can look it up. There's volumes and volumes written about this revolution, but I am going to

hone in on one moment right around this revolution. And that's the moment that university students were seeking answers

from the French psychoanalyst and philosopher Jacques Lacan,

who was a big intellectual in France at the time.

And what Lecon said right around this time was something that was

very frustrating and controversial. Basically, he said, revolutionaries, what you want as revolutionaries

is just another master, or what you aspire to as a new master.

Now obviously it's very frustrating and yet I think there really is something to it.

What Lacan was saying, in other words, was we become so stuck in our struggles that we begin to identify with them,

and that we seek to overturn a certain condition so we can find ourselves right back into it.

Let me break this down into a much more sort of mundane version so maybe we can understand.

And I talk about this a lot, actually, on the very first episode of the show a few years back.

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