Milošević as holiday-maker-in-chief

As told 3

“Milošević changed the daily life of Serbs into one great holiday and enabled us all to feel like high school pupils on a graduation trip, which means that nothing, but really nothing of what you do can be punishable.”
1:41:28 The Ambiguity of Obscenity2009 · 2:13:18

“milosevic changed the daily life of serbs into one great holiday and enabled us all to feel like high school pupils on a graduation trip”
1:02:32 Maybe We Just Need a New Chicken2008-11-09 · 1:42:23

“Milošević turned the daily life of Serbs into one great holiday and enabled us all to feel like high school pupils on a graduation trip, which means that nothing but really nothing of what you do can be punishable.”
~0:00 On Violence2008-09-15 · 1:11:30

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

obscene supplement ×2 if God exists, everything is permitted ×1 false transgression / false liberation ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Aleksandar Tijanić2 Tadeusz Borowski1 Tom Stoppard1 Golda Meir2 John McCain1 Hassan Ngeze1 Peter Handke1 Kurt Vonnegut1

alongside works

Mirror1 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance1 Star Wars: The Phantom Menace1 This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen1 Revolutionary Road1 Post-Theory (volume)1 The Prison-House of Language1 Kangura1

Told together with

43% Karadzic's permissive poem 3 shared talks 18% They Live / critique of ideology glasses 3 shared talks 10% Santa Claus Belief 2 shared talks 4% Niels Bohr's horseshoe 2 shared talks

Every retelling 3

1:41:28 The Ambiguity of Obscenity2009 · 2:13:18

Žižek quotes Serb journalist Aleksandar Tijanić: Milošević suited the Serbs because he turned daily life into a permanent holiday, abolished work time, allowed weapons, car theft, insults to world leaders, freeing people from all constraint. This illustrates how authoritarian power works through covert permissivity., illustrating fundamentalism as covert permissivity,obscene supplement,ideology

1:02:32 Maybe We Just Need a New Chicken2008-11-09 · 1:42:23

Serbian columnist Alexander Tijanic described the Milosevic regime as changing Serbian daily life into 'one great holiday', smuggling, black market, insulting world leaders on state TV, driving stolen cars, Žižek uses this to illustrate the libidinal appeal of transgressive permissiveness in nationalist rule., illustrating obscene supplement,fascism-populism,transgressive freedom of nationalism

~0:00 On Violence2008-09-15 · 1:11:30

Serbian journalist Aleksandar Tijanić described Milošević's Serbia as a permanent holiday: no work, flourishing black market, right to insult world leaders on state TV, right to carry and use weapons, stolen cars routine, 'nothing but really nothing of what you do can be punishable.', illustrating false carnivalesque liberation,ideology's obscene underside