{"id":298134,"date":"2021-02-14T15:28:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T20:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=298134"},"modified":"2021-02-18T12:48:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T17:48:27","slug":"slavoj-zizek-feat-rammstein-we-have-to-live-till-we-die-is-the-covid-era-inspiration-we-all-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/lt\/slavoj-zizek-feat-rammstein-we-have-to-live-till-we-die-is-the-covid-era-inspiration-we-all-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Slavoj Zizek feat. Rammstein: \u2018We have to live till we die\u2019 is the Covid-era inspiration we all need"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #008080\">&#8220;We have to LIVE, till we die.&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0 lyric from the Rammstein song &#8220;Dalai Lama&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">\n<p>One piece of wisdom the media bombards us with is that the Covid-19 pandemic taught us about our mortality and biological limitation: we should abandon our dreams about dominating nature and accept our modest place in it.<\/p>\n<p>Is there a more sobering lesson than being humiliated and reduced to near-impotence by a virus, a primitive self-reproductive mechanism which some biologists don&#8217;t even count as a form of life? No wonder that calls for a new ethic of modesty and global solidarity abound.<\/p>\n<p>But is this the true lesson to be learned here? What if the problem with living in the shadow of a pandemic is exactly the opposite: not death but life, a strange life that drags on, allowing us neither to live in peace nor to quickly die?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/affenknecht.com\/lyrics\/rammstein-dalai-lama-lyric-with-english-translation\/comment-page-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lyrics to the song &#8220;Dalai Lama&#8221; (with translations)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/op-ed\/515419-zizek-rammstein-covid-lockdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rael.maitreya\/posts\/10159436046419345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT: &#8220;We have to LIVE, till we die.&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0 lyric from the Rammstein song &#8220;Dalai Lama&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":298147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}