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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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hoary

whether earthquake or electricity failure or the hoary Millennium Bug

—p.79 Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile: (63) by Slavoj Žižek
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he is more preoccupied with others than with himself

An evil person is thus not an egotist, ‘thinking only about his own interests’. A true egotist is too busy taking care of his own good to have time to cause misfortune to others. The primary vice of a bad person is precisely that he is more preoccupied with others than with himself. [...]

—p.78 Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile: (63) by Slavoj Žižek
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ascesis

The demand for justice is thus ultimately the demand that the excessive enjoyment of the Other should be curtailed so that everyone’s access to jouissance is equal. The necessary outcome of this demand, of course, is asceticism.

—p.76 Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile: (63) by Slavoj Žižek
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an impersonal blind force

Friedrich Hayek knew that it was much easier to accept inequalities if one can claim that they result from an impersonal blind force: the good thing about the ‘irrationality’ of the market and success or failure in capitalism is that it allows me precisely to perceive my failure or success as ‘unde…

—p.76 Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile: (63) by Slavoj Žižek
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they are fighting their own temptation

However, are the terrorist fundamentalists, be they Christian or Muslim, really fundamentalists in the authentic sense of the term? Do they really believe? What they lack is a feature that is easy to discern in all authentic fundamentalists, from Tibetan Buddhists to the Amish in the US: the absenc…

—p.72 Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile: (63) by Slavoj Žižek