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"... the 'middle class' is, in its very 'real' existence, the embodied lie, the denial of antagonism - in psychoanalytic terms, the 'middle class' is a fetish, the impossible intersection of left and right which, by expelling both poles of the antagonism into the position of antisocial 'extremes' which corrode the healthy social body (multinational corporations and intruding immigrants), presents itself as the neutral common ground of Society."
Slavoj Zizek

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"What we have here is the tragicomic reversal of the Benthamite-Orwellian notion of the panopticon society in which we are (potentially) 'observed all the time', and have nowhere to hide from the omnipresent gaze of power."
Slavoj Zizek

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"...why it has persisted for half a century when everybody knows the only workable solution: the withdrawal of Israel from the West Bank and – conclusively – Gaza, the establishment of a viable Palestinian state and, as part of that process, a compromise over the status of Jerusalem..."
Slavoj Zizek

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"The only measure of the greatness of the event is how it succeeds in structuring everyday life."
Slavoj Zizek

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"On today’s market, we find a whole series of products deprived of their malignant property: coffee without caffeine, cream without fat, beer without alcohol…"
Slavoj Zizek