He seems to hit an amazing triple point of terribly intelligent, forcefully casual, and doesn't-give-a-shit, when normally each one of those would prevent one of the others.
I have better ones: tulips AREN'T lurid and I can walk by them without commenting. Better ideas through subtraction.
http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=105252
...and starring Slavoj Zizek as a modern Socrates-as-seen-by-Aristophanes
I badly want Zizek to be on a show like the parody shows in the movie Network or the GTA games. I just want to hear him flap his lips about capitalism and tulips and someone's shoes and a movie until the powers that be decide he has to die and he has to choose whether to kill himself and how.
Why? What's the matter with Vice? I generally find their segments to be pretty interesting. I'm not aware of any particular deficiencies, but I'm open to being persuaded.
I think Vice indulges in their own medicine a bit much, so no matter how fun or on target it is, it's still the rantings of coke-addled hipsters who think and do very bad things. So it's just begging to be taken far too seriously.. I think that's what he's saying?
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