Tito dies happy / Yugoslav debt accumulation

As told 3

“A whole country fell apart so that in order to protect the chicken's ignorance. It's Yugoslavia.”
1:04:06 Fear Thy Neighbor as Thyself2007-11-26 · 1:55:58

“They made a collective decision that Tito should die happy. So they prolonged the false welfare by collecting incredible debts.”
58:24 Year of Distraction1:16:41

“they accumulated a debt in a couple of years, billion dollars, just to keep Tito happy. The chicken shouldn't have known it.”
~0:00 How are we embedded in Ideology?2007-11-16 · 1:15:40

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

the big Other ×3 subject supposed to believe ×1 ideology ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Julius Rosenberg2 Paul Robeson2 Ágota Kristóf2 Père Joseph (François Leclerc du Tremblay)3 Lavrentiy Beria3 Gustáv Husák1 Jeffrey Mehlman1 Irena Grudzińska-Gross1

alongside works

The Conflict of Faculties2 The Shining (novel)2 The Notebook / The Proof / The Third Lie1 On Totalitarianism1 In Search of Lost Time2 Grey Eminence3 Romance2 Button1

Told together with

50% Japanese workers and unused holiday rights 2 shared talks 50% South African Truth and Reconciliation Committee vs. Nazi Germany 2 shared talks 50% Stephen King's The Shining as neighbor 2 shared talks 33% Proust's grandmother on the telephone 2 shared talks 30% Father Joseph / Père Joseph, Gray Eminence 3 shared talks 29% Judith Butler: 'be one species among many', Žižek's respectful refusal 2 shared talks 23% Martin Luther King and Tolerance 3 shared talks 22% Hitchcock's Vertigo, the missing underwear 2 shared talks 21% Rumsfeld's known/unknown matrix and the fourth term 3 shared talks 20% Yugoslav army and homosexual innuendo 2 shared talks 17% Daisetz Suzuki's Knife 3 shared talks 13% Stalinist prohibition of the prohibition 2 shared talks

Every retelling 3

1:04:06 Fear Thy Neighbor as Thyself2007-11-26 · 1:55:58

Inner-circle nomenclature knew in the early 1970s that Yugoslavia was in deep trouble but accumulated $15B+ in debt to keep Tito happy until his death, a real-world instantiation of the chicken-joke logic: we know, but the big Other must not., illustrating big Other,transposed belief,appearances

58:24 Year of Distraction1:16:41

The Yugoslav nomenklatura knew in the 1970s the country was in deep economic trouble but accumulated enormous debt so Tito could die happy, a whole country collapsed to maintain the big Other's ignorance., illustrating the big Other,appearances and symbolic fiction

~0:00 How are we embedded in Ideology?2007-11-16 · 1:15:40

The inner circle of Yugoslav Nomenklatura knew the economy was catastrophic but accumulated billions in debt to keep the dying Tito happy, 'the chicken (Tito) must not know.' Illustrates how the Big Other's innocence can drive an entire system to ruin., illustrating the Big Other,ideology and appearances,Stalinism and its logic