These links provide background:

Parke Burgess on Violence
(6:18 minutes)

I think it would be fair to say that Žižek's take on Burgess' video, would probably be similar to his general dismissal of Buddhism which has often been a target of his fury. He labels it "the paradigmatic ideology of late capitalism". The idea here is that the Asiatic religion fails because its interior cultivation of detachment allows people to go with the flow without going nuts -- even if the flow is a horror show. I think though that that critique misses the depth of Parke Burgess's thinking about violence.

Slavoj Zizek on Violence
[10:00 minutes)

[It's difficult to find the time to watch the other 11 parts, but you might want to do that.

Go Deeper:

Our Tragic Flaw by Parke Burgess
Violence by Slavoj Zizek
Review of Violence by Burgess
Another review of Violence
***************************
The picture I use in this video is an exquisite corpse.


************************

I've been thinking a lot about the machine within twenty-first century materialistic reductionism. Beginning with Descartes's automata theory and followed by
Julien Offray de La Mettrie's L'homme machine ("Machine man") materialistic machine represent a new kind of consciousness which in the eighteenth century began supplanting older ideas of religion and metaphysics.