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Its by turns brilliant, opaque, and downright infuriating, and has massive holes in some of the "transitions" between sections, but its an unavoidable beast. Read the bit on "life" for eerily proto-Deleuzian vitalism.

Absolutely- and not only that but immorally extracted. Charity is repulsive. Also- that Pakistan will fall apart is a fact widely agreed upon amongst Pakistani friends of mine... "Democracy" I take this to mean a form of occasional public votes for "the winning coalition"-- which has shades of...

This sounds similar to my ex who went from depression to serious hard drug addiction-- however she claimed that DESPITE that the SSRIs did actually work. Despite the fact that even though they "were working" she slipped into a near oblivion of chemical self-abuse. To my mind the key is to...

I'd absolutely go along with this (on the specificity thing). I don't think its great for depression/anger etc. My therapist worked with private clients and professional athletes (obviously on very specific issues- "why can't I score goals anymore!?" presumably). The fact she said "stop making...

But the thread is called "are you psychotic"!!! This test's answer makes (slightly) more sense for psychosis than psychopathia.

This I would like to hear in more detail!

Yup, a psychopath will seem totally normal, until they hideously fuck you over without a second thought once they can get away with it. The Psychotic will just sit there banging on about the queen chasing them around Berkshire.

Sure. I don't know enough about the inside of Swears mind to know if it might work or not for him. Worth a shot- but one thing I would advise- if after giving it your all you see no benefit within two months, stop.

My friend/ex/whatever says she has no bad side effects from withdrawing and begs me on a regular basis to go on them. But then again she hasn't actually tried to come off them properly and has been on them for ten years now. I literally trust big Pharma on things like this less than I'd trust a...

Yes it is.

My favourite: pissed bloke in a pub said I looked like Julian Cope (specifically when he was in The Teardrop Explodes) My least favourite: Bar man in a pub in Oxford reckoned I resembled Rick Astley (untrue, and it still hurts...)

I found it was utter platitudinous shite which you could do for yourself from a book, basically. Not that it worked.

The Zizek piece is in the introduction to a new collection of Robespierre's writings, called "Virtue and Terror". It reprints large bits of his piece on Badiou however which is available online "Notes from an ongoing debate"... http://zizekstudies.org/index.php/ijzs/article/view/26/85 Tho the...

Agreed.

I've been reading Zizek on virtue and divine terror, and the irreducible nature of terror within the revolutionary moment. Thematized in a variety of ways but mainly via the Hegelian "Fight to the death" or risking of life as moment of transformation within self-consciousness. And Zhao- read...

Its more Ctrl-Z that I need.

I googled the answer and its none of these folks. Its tricksier than that. Dunno how this is meant to show yr a sociopath tho.

Don't worry Vimothy it's between-the-lines enough for you to never get in any trouble.

Thanks Zhao- about a year and a half ago I was arguing along these lines and got savagely shot down specifically on the issue of how much labour was necessary...

Time to go and look up the word "fascism". Contra to the selection of rightwing nutsacks you voraciously consume Vim it does not simply= "someone with whom I strongly disagree." Here is Wikipedia's attempt: "Fascism is an authoritarian political ideology (generally tied to a mass movement)...