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Slavoj Žižek: philosopher with Panic Ideology Syndrome (PIS)

In 2003, Žižek made a prescient observation to explain how the US under George Bush borrowed a plot twist from Alfred Hitchcock to justify the invasion of Iraq. He called it the "Iraqi McGuffin." Now, what is a McGuffin? Two men who have never met before run into each other on a train. One is dressed as a chocolate covered doughnut. That, says Žižek, is a McGuffin.

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Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 28, 2013 at 5:16am: Hoppefully, the Self-Appointed Stickler for Detail and Corrector of Spelling Mistakes will forgive my error.

(Not that it makes much of a difference to this absolutely spell-binding monologue)

Comment by Ian C Dengler on November 27, 2013 at 11:01pm: the mysterious ingredient is the customer

Comment by Ian C Dengler on November 27, 2013 at 10:45pm: I wuz working on the McDonalds mysterious ingredient.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 27, 2013 at 8:10pm: Slazoj -- you are extracting the urine.

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