Žižek on Living, Dying, and Virtual Reality

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'Insofar as “death” and “life” designate for Saint Paul two existential (subjective) positions, not “objective” facts, we are fully justified in raising the old Pauline question: who is really alive today? What if we are “really alive” only if and when we engage ourselves with an excessive intensity which puts us beyond “mere life”? What if, when
we focus on mere survival, even if it is qualified as “having a good time,” what we ultimately lose is life itself?

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