urph the surf on Thu, 25 Feb 1999 01:35:51 -0500 (EST) |
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Re: Syndicate: Zizek: a bearded Eastern European intellectual |
>The Independent (London) >With a renaissance man's grasp of the world around him (as Slovenia >"ambassador of science" he has developed an in-depth knowledge of quantum >physics) and a journalist's eye for detail (he writes regularly in one of >the national papers) Zizek's often contentious observations are usually >rooted in hard evidence: "I spoke with a psychiatrist whose main >customers are Microsoft people and she told me that they can take it for a >couple of years then the job gets so suffocating they disappear. They move >a little >bit East, you know, towards those horrible states like Montana and Idaho >and then become - how do you call them? - survivalists, extreme >right-wing gangsters. They simply want to escape! They cannot stand it!" Hey, watch it, buster. I'm from that horrible state Idaho and I'm no extreme right-wing gangster. If you're going to make cultural generalizations at least know who you're talking about. Jeesh! Rob _____________________________________________________ ROBBIN MURPHY robbin.murphy@nyu.edu 73 East Second Street #9, NYC 10003 <i> i o l a </i> http://artnetweb.com/iola/