Interesting start
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9 Sep 2008, 08:58
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I just had an interesting start of the day :)
I just watched a very interesting 30 minutes interview with
Slavoj Zizek. He had so many cool and interesting views of many of the resent topics of discussions. Very smart man in my opinion and he makes me want to go more into some of the social and cultural studies which I did at year ago at the university.
So, anyone heard of him, and what do you think?
I just watched a very interesting 30 minutes interview with
Slavoj Zizek. He had so many cool and interesting views of many of the resent topics of discussions. Very smart man in my opinion and he makes me want to go more into some of the social and cultural studies which I did at year ago at the university.So, anyone heard of him, and what do you think?
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0415969212/qid=1079678600/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/002-9672149-6966449?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 worth buying
And so is the people from balkan :p
The fact that they were members of Jugoslavia makes them ex-yugos no matter what they say. So i don't care about what they say.
But anyway, I guess there is a difference between a technical truth and the truth in ppl's hearts.
There are some stuff people never understand. And this is something you'll never understand since you aren't from that area.
but anyway, what makes you think that slovenia is the richest?
if you look at gdp, serbia, croatia, greece, bulgaria, romania all have higher gdp
if you look at gdp per head, greece has it higher
if you look at natural resources, almost all countries from that area have greater natural resources than slovenia, especially croatia
so what do you base your statement on?
If you look on how many citizins the countries have you can clearly see that Slovenia is richer. The standard is a lot bigger in SI than the rest of the countries.
btw:
have you ever been there?
I'm in ljubljana and maribor few times a year for business, not quite sure what you mean by standard being higher, I haven't noticed much difference between slovenia and croatia for example, only that the people are much friendlier in croatia and they don't have those ridiculous vinjetas
just one thing also, slovenia benefits from being a small country with low population, if they were larger with more people you can bet they wouldn't be as "rich"
Try ask a croatian dude what his opinion about this is.
about being rich during yugoslavia time, don't think you know why they were rich and how much money has been redirected from croatia to belgrade and then parts to ljubljana during the years and especially after tito died, and slovenia was the country that prospered the most with the breakdown of yugoslavia when they didn't participate in the war and looted quite a lot of their wealth from national treasury, croatia was quite affected by the war and I think they're doing much better than slovenia atm because they recuperated from a devastating war while slovenia had a nice and clear road towards the future thanks to croatia and somewhat bosnia practically keeping them away from serbian eyes, and I know some things well since my mother worked for the government
slovenia has always been the most yugoslavic country since they had the largest mix of all ex-yu nationalities but they are a very racist and arrogant country which I visit with disgust
but still, serbia and croatia have higher gdp than slovenia
(dont get me wrong)
does my answer satisfy you? :D
And quite the extreme answer :P
But I had a great start of the day, when I opened FireFox I noticed I wasn't banned anymore at crossfire :D
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Slavoj_%C5%BDi%C5%BEek&printable=yes
and wtf "pronounced [ˈslavoj ˈʒiʒɛk])" like anyone knows how top pronounce ˈʒiʒɛk xD
EDIT nice crossfire fail, let fusen implement all characters not only the one on ur keyboard.