Nov 04, 2016 · Slovenian-born philosopher Slavoj Žižek said a Hillary Clinton presidency is a greater danger to the nation than a President Donald Trump.

Žižek may believe that Trump is a ‘centrist liberal” and may also believe in the pathological behavior of Julian Assange as symptomatic of a victim of corporatist statism.

However, if one ignores that quirk and perhaps the double bluff of writing a pro-Assange op-ed for RT, one cannot miss that Assange in his hatred of HRC, helped give us 45*. This endorsement tests any sympathy for either Žižek or Assange.

Even if it identifies the role of big-data corporations in affecting the 2016 election, there are some good ideas from Žižek, even if he ignores the fact of Russian meddling with Assange, Snowden et al.

Worse is the notion that Žižek might actually believe that a conversation between Assange and GOP dirtbags like Dana Rohrabacher and Roger Stone is in the interest of democracy.

Now that Žižek might be spending more time in the US, is he doing this as a double agent so that he doesn’t run afoul of the Trumpian xenophobic hate-machine by maintaining a publicly favorable view of RT, since we know how much that helped Jill Stein and Mike Flynn.

Maybe he’s trying to get an invite to the WH to spend time with countrywoman Melania. Whatever his agenda, it will be hard for anyone on the left to support the objectives of the GRU. It may be a bridge too far.

The overall image emerging from it, combined with what we also know about the link between the latest developments in biogenetics (wiring the human brain, etc.), provides an adequate and terrifying image of new forms of social control which make the good old 20th century “totalitarianism” seem a rather primitive and clumsy machine of domination. The biggest achievement of the new cognitive-military complex is that direct and obvious oppression is no longer necessary: individuals are much better controlled and “nudged” in the desired direction when they continue to experience themselves as free and autonomous agents of their own lives. [...] Because what can be more free than the incessant flow of communications which allows every individual to popularize their opinions and forms virtual communities at the user's own volition? This is why it is absolutely imperative to keep the digital network out of the control of private capital and state power, i.e., to render it totally accessible to public debate. [...] Assange characterized himself as the spy of and for the people: he is not spying on the people for those in power, he is spying on those in power for the people. This is why the only ones who can really help him now are we, the people. Only our pressure and mobilization can alleviate his predicament. One often reads how the old Soviet secret service not only punished its traitors even if it took decades to do it, but also fought doggedly to free them when they were caught by the enemy. Assange has no state behind him, just us, the public – so let us do at least what the Soviet secret service was doing, let’s fight for him no matter how long it takes! www.rt.com/... x Assange works for the people Ã¢ÂÂ now we need to save him (Op-Ed by Slavoj Ã Â½iÃ Â¾ek) https://t.co/Hcy9YndFhW Ã¢ÂÂ RT (@RT_com) April 2, 2018