Slavoj Zizek is proof that you can sell ignorant people trained on TV ad pitches the idea that nonsense on a large range of topics is philosophical wisdom as long as the bull shit artist talks fast, preferably in some European accent or other, throwing in words, names and phrases about things the mark doesn't understand but doesn't want other people to think he doesn't understand. If Zizek is fuller of crap than Camille Paglia is hard to say but mostly because it's so painful to sample them for even a few minutes at a time that it's like giving yourself permanent brain damage to sample it in longer doses. His relative ubiquity is the pseudo-intellectual equivalent of the blanket coverage that the American media gives Donald Trump. Both are, in the end, consumer products. Sort of like melamine tainted formula for the chronologically adult child.
I'll go with Walter Brueggemann, Marilynne Robinson, James Cone, etc.
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