Slavoj Žižek: The World’s Saddest Revolutionary

Slavoj Žižek: The World’s Saddest Revolutionary

Slovenian neo-Marxist philosopher and cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek has spent 50 years telling us everything is broken. Has anyone considered that the diagnosis might be personal? He hates parties. He hates small talk. He hates long dinners. He hates teaching. He hates students, whom he has described as mostly stupid and boring. He hates his own face, which he once asked a photographer not to capture because it looked, he said, like something t…