Boredom Is the Root of All Evil | Kierkegaard & Žižek @RahulSam

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“Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite.” - Søren Kierkegaard

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$Boredom Is the Root of All Evil | Kierkegaard & Žižek “Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite.” - Søren Kierkegaard {Podcast} Substack: https://rsampod.substack.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake {Website} https://rahulsam.me/ {Social Media} https://twitter.com/trsam97 https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/ {Reference Links} https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24970.Either_Or {Music Used} JAY-Z - On To The Next One ft. Swizz Beatz {Images & Videos used} https://youtu.be/FheVftrguhg If the ideas I discuss in this channel evoke your interest, consider visiting https://theunhappyman.substack.com/ Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statutes that might otherwise be infringing. If you are or represent the copyright owner of materials used in this video and have a problem with the use of the related material, please email me at mrrahulmaxcontact@gmail.com, and we can sort it out. Thank you.$ $Philosophy Needs to Reinvent Nature Prof. Matthew David Segall (@Footnotes2Plato) explains how nature needs to be reframed as being alive and organic. Drawing from the metaphysical frameworks of Whitehead and Schelling, this perspective stands in stark contrast to the lifeless, mechanistic outlook imbued by Descartes, Newton, and modernity. 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If you are or represent the copyright owner of materials used in this video and have a problem with the use of the related material, please email me at trahulsam@gmail.com, and we can sort it out. Thank you.$ $Nikhil Venkatesh: Left-Utilitarianism and Socialism for Effective Altruists Dr Nikhil Venkatesh is a fellow in the Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre for Politics, Philosophy and Law at Kings College London. He specialises in moral, social, and political philosophy. His research focuses primarily on utilitarianism and socialism. His PhD thesis argues that recognising the social nature of persons makes utilitarianism more defensible. In this episode, we discuss the social nature of a person contra human nature, collective vs. individual actions, Marxism, socialism, utilitarianism, Effective Altruism, and Longtermism. You can find more of Dr Venkateshs work at ⁠⁠https://nikhilvenkateshphilosophy.com⁠ and ⁠⁠https://x.com/nikvenkatesh/. RSam Podcast #51 {Podcast} Substack: https://rsampod.substack.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake Available on other platforms at https://link.chtbl.com/PDBAf9Zd {Website} https://rahulsam.me/ {Social Media} https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/ https://substack.com/@trsam/ https://x.com/trsam97 https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/ {Reference Links} https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10164799/ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/25/american-pronatalists-malcolm-and-simone-collins If the ideas I discuss in this channel evoke your interest, consider visiting https://theunhappyman.substack.com/ Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statutes that might otherwise be infringing. If you are or represent the copyright owner of materials used in this video and have a problem with the use of the related material, please email me at trahulsam@gmail.com, and we can sort it out. Thank you.$ $What Does Slavoj Žižek Mean by Enjoy! Is Superego? My take on what Slavoj Žižek means by Enjoy!, Is Superego? and the moral injunction of our time is Enjoy! How do we account for this paradox that the absence of Law universalizes Prohibition? There is only one possible explanation: enjoyment itself, which we experience as transgression, is in its innermost status something imposed, ordered - when we enjoy, we never do it spontaneously, we always follow a certain injunction. The psychoanalytic name for this obscene injunction, for this obscene call. Enjoy!, is superego. (For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor) Although jouissance can be translated as “enjoyment,” translators of Lacan often leave it in French in order to render palpable its excessive, properly traumatic character: we are not dealing with simple pleasures, but with a violent intrusion that brings more pain than pleasure. This is how we usually perceive the Freudian superego, the cruel and sadistic ethical agency which bombards us with impossible demands and then gleefully observes our failure to meet them. No wonder, then, that Lacan posited an equation between jouissance and superego: to enjoy is not a matter of following one’s spontaneous tendencies; it is rather something we do as a kind of weird and twisted ethical duty. (How to read Lacan) {Podcast} Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake {Social Media} https://twitter.com/trsam97 https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/ Facebook Group: https://goo.gl/JoL9CA {Reference Links} https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18919.How_to_Read_Lacan https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/90568 Why Love Matters: https://theunhappyman.substack.com/p/why-love-matters {Images & Videos used} https://youtu.be/FheVftrguhg https://youtu.be/AoNNG9byXuw https://youtu.be/KjEtmZZvGZA If the ideas I discuss in this channel evoke your interest, consider visiting https://theunhappyman.substack.com/ Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statutes that might otherwise be infringing. If you are or represent the copyright owner of materials used in this video and have a problem with the use of the related material, please email me at mrrahulmaxcontact@gmail.com, and we can sort it out. Thank you. The description may contain affiliate links to products. I receive a commission for purchases made through these links. I only recommend products that have genuinely helped me.$ $What Žižek Gets Wrong about Christianity (w/ Treydon Lunot) Treydon Lunot (@telosbound) comments on Christian atheism and Slavoj Žižek understanding of the crucifixion and the Lacano-Žižekian notion that The Big Other Doesnt Exist. Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/ubyeJYhZsMI?si=5QPLlNQuAGevW-HA {Podcast} Substack: https://rsampod.substack.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake {Website} https://rahulsam.me/ {Social Media} https://twitter.com/trsam97 https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/ If the ideas I discuss in this channel evoke your interest, consider visiting https://theunhappyman.substack.com/ Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statutes that might otherwise be infringing. If you are or represent the copyright owner of materials used in this video and have a problem with the use of the related material, please email me at mrrahulmaxcontact@gmail.com, and we can sort it out. Thank you.$ $German Idealism, Trotsky and Meister Eckhart | April 2023 Book Haul Books mentioned: German Idealism: The Struggle Against Subjectivism, 1781-1801 by Frederick C. Beiser Trotsky: A Biography by Robert Service Lessons of October by Leon Trotsky Selected Writings by Meister Eckhart Russia, from workers state to state capitalism by Chris Harman, Peter Binns, and Tony Cliff Conspiracy & The Subject: A Lacanian Enterprise by Hunter A. Coates {Podcast} Substack: https://rsampod.substack.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake {Website} https://rahulsam.me/ {Social Media} https://twitter.com/trsam97 https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/ {Images & Videos used} https://youtu.be/ipxoY1aKofQ If the ideas I discuss in this channel evoke your interest, consider visiting https://theunhappyman.substack.com/ Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statutes that might otherwise be infringing. If you are or represent the copyright owner of materials used in this video and have a problem with the use of the related material, please email me at mrrahulmaxcontact@gmail.com, and we can sort it out. Thank you.$ $Hunter Coates On Kant, Hegel & Lacan | RSam Pod #20 Hunter Coates (@dissatisfiedphilosophy ) is an undergraduate student and aspiring academic. Currently, he is pursuing a philosophy and history double B.A. at Georgia College and State University. After graduation, he plans to work towards a PhD in philosophy. In February 2023, Hunter published his first full-length text titled “Conspiracy and the Subject: A Lacanian Enterprise.”: https://www.amazon.com.au/Conspiracy-Subject-Enterprise-Hunter-Coates/dp/B0BW267JC5 In this episode, we discuss Kant, Hegel, Lacan, Žižek and Christian Atheism. Hunters YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dissatisfiedphilosophy9723 {Podcast} Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake {Website} https://rahulsam.me/ {Social Media} https://twitter.com/trsam97 https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/ Facebook Group: https://goo.gl/JoL9CA {Reference Links} Books mentioned: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/170169 https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/13095855 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90568.For_They_Know_Not_What_They_Do https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/30292 {Images & Videos used} The Perverts Guide to Ideology Director: Sophie Fiennes Screenplay: Slavoj Žižek Producers: Sophie Fiennes, Martin Rosenbaum, James Wilson, Katie Holly Film series: The Perverts Guide to Cinema Cast: Slavoj Žižek Distributed by: Zeitgeist Films If the ideas I discuss in this channel evoke your interest, consider visiting https://theunhappyman.substack.com/ Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. 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Connect with Euwyn at: https://twitter.com/euwyngoh https://memoirworthwriting.substack.com https://www.instagram.com/euwyngoh {Podcast} Substack: https://rsampod.substack.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake {Website} https://rahulsam.me/ {Social Media} https://twitter.com/trsam97 https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/ If the ideas I discuss in this channel evoke your interest, consider visiting https://theunhappyman.substack.com/ Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statutes that might otherwise be infringing. If you are or represent the copyright owner of materials used in this video and have a problem with the use of the related material, please email me at mrrahulmaxcontact@gmail.com, and we can sort it out. Thank you. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Introduction 2:38 - The modern pursuit of happiness 5:47 - The experience and concept of happiness 11:10 - Happiness as Ideology 22:43 - The stages of pleasures development 28:48 - The misconceptions of happiness 33:20 - Therapism 42:42 - Human condition 52:00 - Kierkegaards stages of life 59:00 - Beyond Happiness 1:04:49 - The religious dimension 1:17:30 - Absurdity 1:19:30 - Happiness through lifes stages 1:25:15 - A caveat$ $Best Books on Hegel (2023) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) is one of the most influential figures of German idealism and philosophy. His influence extends across the entire range of contemporary philosophical topics, from metaphysical issues in epistemology and ontology to political philosophy, the philosophy of history, art and religion. Books mentioned: The Sublime Object of Ideology by Slavoj Žižek The Plague of Fantasies by Slavoj Žižek Žižeks Ontology: A Transcendental Materialist Theory of Subjectivity by Adrian Johnston Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism by Slavoj Žižek Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution by Todd McGowan German Idealism: The Struggle against Subjectivism, 1781–1801 by Frederick C. Beiser Hegel by Frederick C. Beiser A New German Idealism: Hegel, Žižek, and Dialectical Materialism by Adrian Johnston Valences of the Dialectic by Fredric Jameson For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor by Slavoj Žižek Absolute Recoil: Towards A New Foundation Of Dialectical Materialism by Slavoj Žižek The Future of Hegel: Plasticity, Temporality and Dialectic by Catherine Malabou {Podcast} Substack: https://rsampod.substack.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake {Website} https://rahulsam.me/ {Social Media} https://twitter.com/trsam97 https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/ If the ideas I discuss in this channel evoke your interest, consider visiting https://theunhappyman.substack.com/ Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. 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Connect with Euwyn at: https://twitter.com/euwyngoh https://memoirworthwriting.substack.com https://www.instagram.com/euwyngoh {Podcast} Substack: https://rsampod.substack.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake {Website} https://rahulsam.me/ {Social Media} https://twitter.com/trsam97 https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/ {Images & Videos used} Thumbnail: Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David If the ideas I discuss in this channel evoke your interest, consider visiting https://theunhappyman.substack.com/ Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statutes that might otherwise be infringing. If you are or represent the copyright owner of materials used in this video and have a problem with the use of the related material, please email me at mrrahulmaxcontact@gmail.com, and we can sort it out. Thank you. 0:00 - Criticism vs critique 2:00 - Background on self-help 6:00 - The problem of assumed oughts 9:54 - Self-help as modern ideology 20:50 - Self-help as conformist category 23:48 - Performativity 30:45 - Conformist difference 35:10 - Self-helpism as parody of aspiration 39:00 - Capitalism and self-help 43:32 - Spirituality and self-help 49:39 - Infinite ideals 54:10 - Salvation 58:23 - Profoundness 1:14:45 - Self-helps proper category$ $Žižek and the Abyss of Self-Relating Hell Treydon Lunot (@telosbound) explains how the Žižekian subject results from self-relating negativity severed from Gods communal ontology. Watch the full podcast here: https://youtu.be/b-TnZFslmR8?si=5O2eGKyQ7Yx7ewa1 {Podcast} Substack: https://rsampod.substack.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake Available on other platforms at https://link.chtbl.com/PDBAf9Zd {Website} https://rahulsam.me/ {Social Media} https://twitter.com/trsam97 https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/ https://substack.com/@trsam/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/ {Reference Links} You can also watch Treys video here: https://youtu.be/zrnY9uyJpiM?si=NYB0RSpFuKAfWPtR If the ideas I discuss in this channel evoke your interest, consider visiting https://theunhappyman.substack.com/ Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. 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Paul’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PFJung Paul’s debate with Vaush: https://youtu.be/hHn9WMSQyyk {Podcast} Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake {Website} https://rahulsam.me/ {Social Media} https://twitter.com/trsam97 https://www.minds.com/trahulsam/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/ https://trahulsam.medium.com/ https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/ Facebook Group: https://goo.gl/JoL9CA {Reference Links} https://www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-origins-of-totalitarianism-9780241316757 If the ideas I discuss in this channel evoke your interest, consider visiting https://theunhappyman.substack.com/ Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statutes that might otherwise be infringing. If you are or represent the copyright owner of materials used in this video and have a problem with the use of the related material, please email me at mrrahulmaxcontact@gmail.com, and we can sort it out. Thank you. The description may contain affiliate links to products. I receive a commission for purchases made through these links. I only recommend products that have genuinely helped me.$