“Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots”
One of many great ideas by Slavoj Žižek – who btw doesn’t know the door number of his own apartment in Ljubljana. And why should he? He knows how to get home already.
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Stupid idiots as a group, fiercely enginuitive when working alone to solve problems. Humans have it coming, too. Sorry to all those species we have doomed, especially the ones that are still currently alive.
Crazy ticks and hard to follow at times but Slavoj hits the nail on the head time and time again. He knows you know.
People are boring because most of their time is spent doing boring things. If they had a way to feed themselves and their families other than working to make someone else rich, they would – or would they? Many people fall into the easy way out, monotony isn’t as scary as pioneering and taking risks, which is why they are not the ones getting rich. Up to you how boring you want to make your life. Eat stolen fruit from trees and find clothes if you want a simple life. In other countries, this would be a better option. Not in the west though. We deserve boring. Boring is safe, we like safe.
I think this old article is where the idea comes from. Hard to knock it to be honest. Though, not MY friends, he says…