I am personally affected and involved here.
To brag, I had indirect contacts with Mousavi.
- I was involved in some manifestos.
- Really? - Absolutely.
I gave a statement and wrote a text
which were so sensational
that for two days, and not more,
I was the negative star of the day.
Because I gave them a Leninist advice
in an interview.
They were losing and didn't know what to do now.
Be Leninist, I said. Some network must remain.
Organisational network. Don't become resigned
old men, talking nostalgically of your struggle.
And millions were asking who
is behind all this.
The joke was in that for two days they were
running headlines about me, saying
that I was CIA's middleman
to the Greens.
My cynical idea was to write an open letter to CIA.
"If you are paying me, where is the money?"
All my friends are worried about what
is happening in Israel.
I've written an article for Le Mond about
sexual relationships there. Don't laugh.
Young people are normal. Young Israelis
and Palestinians have sexual contacts.
An ultra paranoia has started.
Because it is viewed as Palestinian terror
when Palestinians seduce innocent
young Israeli girls.
By the way, this is a commendation.
As far as I know them,
an innocent young Israeli girl
is like woody iron.
You don't know how ...
Our Slovene nationalists can learn from them.
They have special phone numbers
which you can call if you think your daughter
is in contact with a Palestinian. Guards will
pick her up and take her to the psychiatric ward,
because this is considered an illness.
And so on and so forth ...
Some people in our (parliament) opposition
like to draw this parallel ... That here too
we must overthrow the "forces of continuity".
Look deeply into your heart.
I won't mention any names.
Ask yourself, is there any politician (in Slovenia),
whose name can begin with any letter ...
... for example with "J" ...
Is there a politician whose public appearances,
when he is really wrathful, remind you of
Gaddafi, of his speech two days ago?
I think there is.
Thank you very much.
I know it has other potentials,
I am for Islam.
I think it has great emancipatory
potential. What?
- I will tell you. Now I will provoke you.
- Be brief. - Yeah, yeah.
Do you remember the "scandalous"
statement of an Australian Mufti or something?
A woman was raped and he sided
with the rapist. It was a big scandal.
He compared a raped woman to ...
He said it like this.
If someone left a slice of
unwrapped meat in the street,
and a dog came by and ate it,
who would you blame?
Probably the owner of the meat,
not the dog. It is the same with rape.
It's her own fault for walking alone etc.
Don't laugh. A feminist potential is hidden here.
Did you notice what utter contempt
for men is implied here?
We men are like dogs.
We see, we seize, we can't help it.
Only the woman is treated
as minimally ethical.
You will say I am delirious. I'm not.
If you now the history of Islam just a bit,
then you know ... how Mohammed
became a prophet.
He thought an evil spirit had appeared
to him. Khadijah, his wife,
had to persuade him
it was a good angel.
As if the authority of a man can only be
affirmed through a woman's judgement.
This is to me much more interesting than
all the nonsense about primordial mother Earth.
Things are very tense here.
May I add one sentence, literally.
Today everybody is saying how ...
and I have no sympathy for our PM ...
- Be short, Slavoj. - Yeah.
How Borut ... which is it ... the other is a writer ...
- Borut Pahor. - The young one.
How he went to Gaddafi and humiliated himself.
But didn't Jansa (former PM)
go on an official visit to Saudi Arabia?
Yes. Honestly, they're both shit.
But I would be more ashamed to go to Saudi Arabia.
Last year I met with Hosni Mubarak.
Now continue.
As I said before, when we take over,
your tie will come in useful.
We know who to hang and
we have the instrument. We'll just turn it upside down.
- I want an orange tie. - I know. You like orange,
CIA revolutions. You'll get a green one.
How can you say that Mubarak
didn't expect it,
when he had a horrific repressive apparatus?
He didn't know it?!
- He didn't tell me. - You think he would say,
"Pavel, you are the force of continuity,"
"tell me, how did you open The Department
of State Security, so I can do the same?"
Thank you. Slavoj Zizek.
I've chattered too much already,
so I shall forgo my closing statement.
Thank you. That was a nice ending,
we are speechless.
