"This is a global problem" | Slavoj Žižek on ChatGPT, Donald Trump, and the future of humanity

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Slavoj Žižek casts his eye over the modern world of politics, picking apart everything from the shamelessness of Donald Trump to the rise of authoritarian, AI-powered regimes.

What ever happened to basic decency?

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Every time the modern world feels like it's hit rock bottom, we drop further. For many, our current political climate is evidence that the world as we knew it is gone. But for radical philosopher Slavoj Žižek rock bottom, what he calls the "zero point," can be a place to retreat, rethink and regroup. In our increasingly multipolar, dangerous and populist world, join Slavoj Žižek, the man who has been called "the most dangerous philosopher in the West," who argues that the only progress we can hope for will be found when we hit rock bottom, and only then will a path forward be possible.

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Slavoj Žižek is a world-renowned philosopher, cultural critic and public intellectual. Foreign Policy named Žižek a Top 100 Global Thinker "for giving voice to an era of absurdity”.

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00:00 Introduction
00:14 Why people vote for Donald Trump
04:09 What the Left can learn from Trump's success
06:08 Artificial intelligence, climate change, and human evolution
10:43 We are approaching new forms of state control

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