Amish and Tibetan Buddhists: genuine indifference without envy

As told 4

“they don't envy us... it's just this benevolent indifference”
1:38:43 Maybe We Just Need a New Chicken2008-11-09 · 1:42:23

“They don't have any envy. They don't hate... Their idea is we found our way of life. You have yours nice, we can be friends.”
1:36:53 The REAL Point of Trump’s Tariffs | Aaron Bastani Meets Slavoj Žižek2025-04-13 · 2:07:22

“Tibetans it shocked me they don't have any expansionist logic or any hatred towards others their idea is we found our way of life you can have yours there is no envy”
10:09 Slavoj Žižek: I’m against pseudo use of psychoanalysispub. 2026-01-25 · 22:52

What it carries

one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)

contents · one story, 3 jobsuses

authentic fundamentalism ×5 envy (of the other's enjoyment) ×1 envy as fundamental ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Jordan Bardella2 Peter Thiel3 Esther Dyson1 Giolitti1 Kazuo Ishiguro1 JD Vance3 Wilhelm Reich2 Kurt Vonnegut1

alongside works

Hegel in a Wired World2 Star Wars: The Phantom Menace1 Global blah blah and local communities1 Superintelligence1 The Possibilities for Our Grandchildren1 Nozze di Figaro1 Marquise of O1 Let's pray that Trump will survive next couple of years1

Told together with

40% The Wire fuck scene 2 shared talks 33% Neuralink and the Crippled Man 2 shared talks

Every retelling 4

1:38:43 Maybe We Just Need a New Chicken2008-11-09 · 1:42:23

Žižek encountered Amish and Tibetan Buddhist practitioners who showed genuine, benevolent indifference to liberal lifestyles, no envy, no secret fascination. He uses them as the model of 'true fundamentalism' against the envious fake variety., illustrating true vs fake fundamentalism,religion-theology,envy

1:36:53 The REAL Point of Trump’s Tariffs | Aaron Bastani Meets Slavoj Žižek2025-04-13 · 2:07:22

Žižek contrasts authentic fundamentalists (Amish, Tibetans) who have no envy and just want to be left alone, with pseudo-fundamentalists (US right-wingers) who are secretly obsessed with and envious of those they hate., illustrating pseudo-fundamentalism,authentic vs. destructive fundamentalism

10:09 Slavoj Žižek: I’m against pseudo use of psychoanalysispub. 2026-01-25 · 22:52

Žižek contrasts the Amish (who accept modernity's tools situationally, have no envy of 'Englishmen', and simply wish to live their own way) and Tibetans (who harbor no expansionist hatred of Han Chinese) with pseudo-fundamentalists driven by resentful obsession with the Other., illustrating authentic fundamentalism,pseudo-fundamentalism,envy and the Other's enjoyment

53:27 Žižek Chillstep Lofi background lecture for cleaning with ADHD | 2025 Slavoj Zizek Downtempo2025-09-04 · 1:12:48

Žižek contrasts Tibetans and Amish, who live by their principles without envy or resentment toward outsiders, with modern fundamentalists who are defined by their hatred of the 'other' (e.g., LGBT)., illustrating logic of resentment,ideology