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Alexzander7/18/2011 12:48:29 am PDT

re: #415 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin

I think I know what Zizek means by that. At least, my own version is, I call myself a cultural Black Protestant nontheist.

Sounds pretentious as eff, and takes five years to say, but it’s the most accurate thing I can come up with. One stops believing. One does not just stop being culturally what one is.

Levinas (and of course Derrida) had a big impact on me. Well, all of the phenomenologists did. It was the times, what could I say.

I dont know how best to label myself yet - perhaps something like Nietzschean post-atheist.
I’m still deeply influnced by Derrida and Levinas and if anything I’ll probably go deeper that way.

Don’t let the problems of this world
Drive you slowely out of your mind
Just smile, look at the problem
And say it be’s that way, be’s that way sometime