Q: How often do you have sex?
Zizek: It depends what one means by sex. If it’s the usual masturbation
with a living partner, I try not to have it at all.
It is pretty apparent that the so-called internet philosophers are not only sex-obsessed, but also anti-intellectuals of the worst sort. Here is where I agree with aarvoll: those who claim to be intellectuals without having read Aristotle are indeed kind of a joke. (In a video I saw some time ago, titled something like Why I want to Build a School or so.)
After all, they are not Wittgensteins, who actually did joke about the fact the now he has been made a professor of philosophy without having read a single line of Aristotle (he said this to Gottlob Frege, who was rather perplexed at what he heard.)
What is just as laughable is that the same people often enough make fun of smart men who read books, calling them nerds and so on. Well, you idiots, of course you have to read and think a lot if you want to be … a thinker. This is bordering on intellectual debility.
Countless times did I have to suffer reading or hearing such vulgar nonsense; not only him, but guys like Vox Day and his friends often did this. This cannot be defended. Worse, if Vox Day says that most people hardly read—giving a rather fictional 95%—, then why denigrate those few who actually do read books as nerds? What is this, what are we dealing with when it comes to such internet philosophers? A huge mental institution? Seems so.
For example, in an interview (archive.org) Zizek said:
Q: How often do you have sex?
Zizek: It depends what one means by sex. If it’s the usual masturbation with a living partner, I try not to have it at all.
Such an answer would get attacked rabidly by most people in these circles. You not only have to want it, nay, you should even prefer a deranged life like that of Hugh Hefner (archive.is: [1], [2]). This is bordering on insanity. This is worse than murder.
Don Colacho would have agreed:
The modern mentality’s conceptual pollution of the world is more serious than contemporary industry’s pollution of the environment.
It is fine to demand that the imbecile respect arts, letters, philosophy, the sciences, but let him respect them in silence.
The cultural rickets of our time is a result of the industrialization of culture.
In no previous age did the arts and letters enjoy greater popularity than in ours. Arts and letters have invaded the school, the press, and the almanacs.
No other age, however, has produced such ugly objects, nor dreamed such coarse dreams, nor adopted such sordid ideas.
It is said that the public is better educated. But one does not notice.Intellectual boorishness is the defect that we least know how to avoid in this century.
The majority of men have no right to give their opinion, but only to listen.
We should ask the majority of people not to be sincere, but mute.