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Slavoj Žižek: “What would be my—how should I call it—spontaneous attitude towards the universe. It’s a very dark one. The first one, the first thesis would have been: a kind of total vanity. There is nothing, basically. I mean it quite literately, like… ultimately…. ultimately there are just some fragments, some vanishing things, if you look at the universe its one big void. But then how do things emerge? Here, I feel a kind of spontaneous affinity with quantum physics where—you know—the idea there is that universe is a void but kind of a positively charged void. And then, particular things appear when the balance of the void is disturbed. And I like this idea spontaneously very much that, the fact that, it’s not just nothing, things are out there, it means: something went terribly wrong. That what we call creation is a kind of a cosmic imbalance, cosmic catastrophe, that things exist by mistake. And I am even ready to go to the end and claim that the only way to counteract is, is to… assume the mistake and go to the end. And we have a name for this: it’s called love. Isn’t love precisely this kind of a cosmic imbalance? I was always disgusted that, with this notion of “I love the world, universal love”. I don’t like the word. I don’t know h…how… I, basically I am somewhere between I hate the world or I am indifferent towards it. But the whole of reality, it’s just it, it’s stupid, it’s out there. I don’t care about it. Love for me is an extremely violent act. Love is not I love you all. Love means: I pick out something and I… you know it’s again this structure of imbalance. Even if this something is just a small detail, a small fragile individual person, I say: I love you more than anything else. In this quite formal sense love is evil.”
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