[Buddha-l] Zizek: expert on Buddhism and what "we" think

[jkirk]

Hi Frantz

The article appeared in the NYT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/11/opinion/11zizek.html
Why not send them a letter to the editor about this? I suspect they'd print
yours. 
IMO Zizek is overrated.
Joanna 
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Look, I respect and appreciate an intelligent and powerful critique of the
Western commodification of religion and the foolish way in which some of us
treat culture as if it were a preference in breakfast cereal. Zizek is right
about this and we can learn from his radical critique. But that does not
excuse the PRC or the Taliban's actions. 
The simple fact is that, contra Zizek, "China's reincarnation laws" ARE
"alien to our sensibility." And thank God for that.

Franz Metcalf

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