Hello everyone, I'm Stephen West, this is philosophize this.

So we're going to be connecting a lot of dots today from the last five episodes of the show

we've been talking about Slavagizizizhek. Highly recommend listening to those before this one.

You obviously don't have to, but just know outside of a short recap about what's been said.

I'm not going to be re-explaining Laconian Desire, dialectics, absolute knowledge, postmodern subjectivity,

but you'll need to know what these are to get the most out of this episode.

I put them out there, they're all there for you to enjoy, check them out if you want to.

Now that set, Slava Jijek says that the postmodern subject we talked about all last episode

when they fully take on this way of looking at the world

supposedly without grand narratives to make sense of things.

That person usually has about three choices at their disposal he says

for how they can live their life from here on out

and as he says they often oscillate between these three choices just depending on what

position they're in in life how frustrated they are etc the first choice of postmodernist

has is just to burn out. We can all relate to this one in some way.

You know, the idea is with no objective meaning to anything, and where the only thing I can do is shoot for career achievements that are ultimately going to be meaningless just a few years after I'm dead.

Easy place to go in your head from there is what's the point of doing anything?

I mean in that world, why not just give in to my worst impulses every day?

When life is giving me these psychological symptoms of burnout,

the anxiety, the depression, the ADHD,

why not just medicate yourself with something?

Enesthetize yourself to geejek things like drugs, alcohol, sex, video

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