Tibetan path ritual of submission

As told 4

“he was obliged to put a sleeve over his shoulder bow down and look with the eyes up and stick his tongue up like the whole ritual of appearing totally stupid”
48:22 Ideology as Augmented Reality2017-05-15 · 1:57:46

“When in the late '50s Chinese wanted to prohibit this, of course, what was the outcry? 'Oh, imperialists, you are meddling in our way of life.'”
33:58 The Courage Of Hopelessness2017-05-20 · 1:32:11

“I know the expression 'eat my tongue.' But wasn't this meant as a metaphor? I think simply—I don't particularly research into this, but from my personal experience, it's just like a way of saying hello.”
1:30:36 Slavoj Zizek - Buddhism, happiness and sacrifice day 012023 · 1:51:03

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

way of life ×3 jouissance ×2 universality ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Bruno Kreisky1 Didier Eribon1 Garret FitzGerald1 Ramesh Srinivasan1 Sergei Pankejeff1 Quentin Tarantino1 Hermann Göring1 Michael Elan1

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Told together with

40% Mexican rape acquittal for lack of enjoyment 2 shared talks 30% Radio Yerevan / Rabinovich and the car 3 shared talks 25% The abandoned shopping cart in Walmart 2 shared talks 23% Roma girl and arranged marriage in Slovenia 3 shared talks 18% Goebbels's Totaler Krieg speech 2 shared talks 17% Darian Leader patient / 'Bed for two please' 2 shared talks

Every retelling 4

48:22 Ideology as Augmented Reality2017-05-15 · 1:57:46

On narrow mountain paths in old Tibet, when a peasant and a feudal master met going opposite ways, the peasant had to step off the path, put a sleeve over his shoulder, bow down, look upward, and stick out his tongue, a precise ritual of total abasement. The Chinese eventually intervened to stop this, which was condemned as interference in Tibetan way of life., illustrating way of life,antagonism within tradition,Tibet and imperialism

33:58 The Courage Of Hopelessness2017-05-20 · 1:32:11

Ancient Tibetan custom required lower-status people to bow on mountain paths and adopt an idiotic facial expression when meeting superiors; when Chinese tried to prohibit this in the 1950s, the outcry was 'you are meddling in our way of life.', illustrating ways of life,jouissance,internal antagonism

1:30:36 Slavoj Zizek - Buddhism, happiness and sacrifice day 012023 · 1:51:03

Žižek discusses a Tibetan student’s explanation of sticking out one's tongue as a greeting. He reveals that historically, in feudal Tibet, this was a humiliating ritual for serfs meeting masters ('eat my tongue'), but now it is just a way of saying hello. He uses this to argue against idealizing Tibetan culture, pointing out the 'pornographic Dalai Lama' and the need to know a culture's inter-tensions, not just its idealized image., illustrating subjectivity,ideology

~0:00 Populism as a way to disavow social antagonism2017-05-24 · 2:24:54

Until 1959, Tibetan custom required lower-status people to step aside on narrow paths, lean down, and stick out their tongue in ritualized self-humiliation before lamas. The Chinese prohibited it after 1959; lamas protested the intrusion. Žižek uses this to argue for connecting emancipatory struggles across cultures rather than defending local practices wholesale., illustrating jouissance,way of life,universality,emancipatory struggle