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Feb. 12th, 2006 10:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
levertovfan"What is inherent to human speech is the irreducible gap between the enunciated content and its act of enunciation: 'You say this, but why are you telling me it openly now?'" -From an article by Slavoj Zizek on torture, language, ethics, and the TV show 24 that appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle today.
I don't agree, but find it interesting. In my opinion, open acknowledgement and discussion of what behaviors one (or ones' country) exhibits can only be a good thing. Ideally, that can serve as a way of arriving at ethical conclusions. I think what Zizek is trying to get at is that Cheney and a large swath of the US public no longer find it shameful to admit publically to torture, which is a distressing although not surprising thought.
I don't agree, but find it interesting. In my opinion, open acknowledgement and discussion of what behaviors one (or ones' country) exhibits can only be a good thing. Ideally, that can serve as a way of arriving at ethical conclusions. I think what Zizek is trying to get at is that Cheney and a large swath of the US public no longer find it shameful to admit publically to torture, which is a distressing although not surprising thought.
