'Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots'

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this is the kind of statement i'd expect from a boring idiot

I miss the humanity is not ok, and 99% of people are not boring idiots option tbh

it takes one to know one?

you can choose "humanity is not ok", which include on subtest the "borinf idiot"
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I like to differentiate between the two, but I'll count my blessing with that one, ta

errr..i meant if humanity is not ok - most people within it gotta be boring idiots

Except for THE ONE PERCENT amirite

huge crossover potential with the Facebook macro thread here

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"Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots"

-bob marley

Žižek trolls at a 3rd Grade level, or his thought processes really are the same as 15 year-old goth, can't decide

I voted

humanity is OK, but I'm a boring idiot, so humanity is 99% not interested in me. but interest gets pretty tiresome, so we're all 99% OK with this deal

miss the humanity is not ok, and 99% of people are not boring idiots option tbh

― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 22:55 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This one.

people have different interests to my own. some bore me. i probably bore them.

ok, humanity is boring, 99% of idiots are people

pretty sure it's 100%, to be honest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkNIlf9-8OI

I can't agree with the assumption that idiots are boring.

When you suffer from average intelligence, like I do, the world is filled with smart, interesting people.

And I'm hoping I'm average; not many people would rate themselves a dullard.

voted "humanity is not ok, and 99% of people are not boring idiots"

i dunno, i think one of the first signs of dullardry is believing that you're more intelligent and interesting than 99 percent of yr species

"I can't agree with the assumption that idiots are boring."

the idiots which are not boring are included in the 1%.
which means the 1% include: interesting idiots, boring smart, and interesting smart.

Is it possible to have a civil society without boring people?

wow! a 'zizek finds himself endlessly fascinating and becomes so fixated upon his own magnificence that he spends only 1% of his time contemplating the existence of other people' shockah!

Normally I'm not even huge on humanity, but I just read a story about a 10 year old who found Refrigerator Perry's superbowl ring, bought it for $8500, and then gave it back to him. So right now humanity's ok, but at least 85% are boring idiots, so...

Actually, scratch that. Now that we have stuff like this, is there even a need for humanity?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RBSkq-_St8

Stopped reading this because this guy's human so fuck him.

i quite liked zizek when all i knew about him was a couple youtube clips. in anything more than small doses, i'm discovering, the man is intolerable. the 15-year-old goth comparison is so OTM. his solipsism puts my (dreadful) 15-year-old self to shame.

cool

99% of people itt are being boring idiots

i blame the guardian for having a terrible article and nostormo for making a stupid thread about it. 99% of people jerk their knees all the damn time, if you don't find that boring then you're not part of the humanity that's OK

being a boring idiot is unavoidable, literally no one is a special snowflake, this is a basic dealwithit

that's how you get to the 'OK' part

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7hj3tYerg1qhkwfjo1_500.jpg

He described himself in oxymoronic terms, "a cynical existentialist, antihuman humanist, antisocial social darwinist [sic], realistic idealist and godlike atheist" on his YouTube user page Sturmgeist89.[14][15] The police investigation confirmed that Auvinen was frequently bullied at school.[16] One of his teachers described him as militant radical interested in both far-right and far-left movements. He was also interested in history and philosophy.[17]

and none of this has much to do with slavoj zizek xp

Isn't the dealwithits of life's miseries caused by special snowflakes rather than boring idiots?

I guess boring idiots do enable malicious snowflakes though.

special snowflakes also ask 'penetrating questions' xp

being a boring idiot is unavoidable if you're being scrutinised by somebody who sees boring idiots everywhere

we may not all be special snowflakes, but every moment may be unique. and in what does the boredom lie beyond the mind's eye of the beholder?

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/6/8/1339179097554/Slavoj-Z-iz-ek-at-his-hom-008.jpg

He described himself in oxymoronic terms, "a cynical existentialist, antihuman humanist, antisocial social darwinist [sic], realistic idealist and godlike atheist" on his YouTube user page Sturmgeist89.[14][15]

i have images off and honestly thought this was about zizek up to + including "sturmgeist89"

haha otm

i was like "godlike atheist" come on zizek rly

Who would y'all rather have as your dentist: by the book B+ dental student or robin williams?

Lol, yes, I had the same thought re: that description. Actually Zizek is okay in book form, it's his "small doses" public persona that's stupid. But even that's a kind of loveable stupid, as far as I'm concerned.

^

i imagine he does his small doses public persona thing because it's good for his career and he gets bored by 99% of academia

yes, that.

I've met a pretty small percentage of humanity.

To be honest, anyone who ever takes "Slavoj Zizek in 'scandalous' remark shocker" bait (the type usually peddled by places like The Guardian) is probably a boring idiot. These articles (and these statements, which are usually meant to simply rank the ire of boring idiots to begin with) have absolutely so little merit in paying attention to that the real source of complaint is the people that actually make anything of it.

Also, dude's written books and stuff. Why don't y'all read those instead of some C rate troll journalism.

yeah!

BAN NOSTORMO, ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE

C rate troll journalism

Let's see how this works. zizek says something. a reporter quotes him accurately. the result is C rate troll journalism.

he was joking tho. he's not really misanthropic. he's wrote books.

99% of people are boring idiots. haha! good one!

narcissism is hilarious and has no bad consequences

no such things as pure 'consequences' of narcissism nor indeed any other human trait *nods*

alright, narcissism of this type makes you look like an ignorant cunt will that do?

true peace is not to be found striving for the acceptance of others -_-

i don't think it's about being accepted by others i think it's about being receptive to the endless fascination of the world around you

ah but one must listen for the stillness of the mind to truly hear that which is all around us

the humanity quote isn't even the dumbest thing in the article

Žižek has had to quit most of his teaching posts in Europe and America, to get away from these intolerable students. "I especially hate when they come to me with personal problems. My standard line is: 'Look at me, look at my tics, don't you see that I'm mad? How can you even think about asking a mad man like me to help you in personal problems, no?'"

I like to do crazy things. But I did my Marxist duty. I got friendly with the Pakistani taxi driver who showed to me and my son reality. The whole structure of how the workers there live was explained, how it was controlled. My son was horrified." This summer they are off to Singapore, to an artificial island with swimming pools built on top of 50-storey skyscrapers. "So we can swim there and look down on the city: 'Ha ha, fuck you.' That's what I like to do – totally crazy things.

this guy...so crazy! so crazy!

he's not a columbine goth kid he's the fat teenager w/ a 'I do what the voices in my head tell me to do' t-shirt. so wild. so unpredictable.

Reminds me of HOOS's stories of his high school years, tbh. btw, isn't it SOP that Marxist intellectuals must fiercely hate the proletariat?

humanity is not ok, but we're kinda stuck with it, so whatever

having not met 99 percent of currently living humans i demur on the other half of the question

Look at me, look at my tics, don't you see that I'm mad?

initially read tics as 'ties' and would have much rather it did say that

this one's got a piano on it!!!

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