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🧵 Free speech is the foundation of honest journalism. Without it, journalists cannot challenge power, expose corruption, or ask the questions those in charge would rather leave unanswered.
A press that fears speaking freely cannot hold anyone accountable.
Censorship doesn’t just silence journalists. It deprives the public of the truth. When certain perspectives are deemed unacceptable, important stories go untold.
The answer to bad speech is more speech, not less.
1/ 🧵 Slavoj Žižek’s philosophy of life is deeply unsettling:
The things we believe will make us happy often keep us trapped. Freedom is not about getting everything you want. It’s about confronting the uncomfortable truth that you may not even know what you want.
Here are 8 ideas that explain his worldview.
9/ The world doesn’t owe you a coherent story.
We want our lives to follow a logical narrative: work hard, make the right decisions, find love, and eventually become fulfilled.
But reality is contradictory, unpredictable, and often absurd.
Žižek’s philosophical tradition encourages us to confront those contradictions rather than invent a perfectly harmonious world in which they disappear.
10/ The ultimate lesson of Žižek’s philosophy:
Stop assuming that happiness, success, and freedom mean getting exactly what you want.
Question where your desires come from. Examine the systems shaping your beliefs. Recognize the contradictions in your own life.
And resist the temptation to believe that understanding the world automatically puts you outside of it.
Perhaps the hardest form of freedom is learning to question the fantasies that make your life feel bearable.
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