Žižek Demands the Free Cookie

POV: you’re a Subway employee, and you just told Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek that he can’t have a free cookie No because I want you to break this down for me WHY can’t I have the free cookie if I gave you the coupon... The coupon EXPIRED? I want to see your fucking boss, and so and so forth, I mean This is PURE ideology

A man in a white shirt performs an increasingly animated argument about refusing Slavoj Žižek a free Subway cookie because the coupon expired. The joke is that an ordinary customer-service dispute is recast as Žižek-style philosophical analysis, ending with the absurd declaration that the expired coupon is “pure ideology.” It works as a reaction to bureaucratic rules, petty disputes, or overintellectualizing a simple problem. EN: A man in a white shirt performs an increasingly animated argument about refusing Slavoj Žižek a free Subway cookie because the coupon expired. The joke is that an ordinary customer-service dispute is recast as Žižek-style philosophical analysis, ending with the absurd declaration that the expired coupon is “pure ideology.” It works as a reaction to bureaucratic rules, petty disputes, or overintellectualizing a simple problem.

POV, you're a subway employee and you just told Slovenian philosopher Slavo Žižek that he can't have a free cookie. No, because I want you to break this down for me. Why can't I have the free cookie if I gave you the coupon? The coupon expired! Well, you already know what I'm going to say. I want to see your fucking boss and so on and so forth. This is pure ideology.

• @jeppa420 / 17963 2021-06-02