{"id":9423,"date":"2025-08-18T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=9423"},"modified":"2025-05-04T19:06:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T19:06:38","slug":"looking-at-slavoj-zizeks-book-2024-christian-atheism-part-12-of-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=9423","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Slavoj Zizek&#8217;s Book (2024) &#8220;Christian Atheism&#8221; (Part 12 of 33)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0129 Back to that law of economics that falls into the lap of a Buddhist economist, while playing with Zizek&#8217;s configuration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide043.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" data-id=\"9424\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide043.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide043.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide043-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Does Buddhism or does Zizek&#8217;s configuration account for this law?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t ask me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am busy preparing a scenario to distract the reader from the question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0130 In&nbsp;<em>our current Lebenswelt<\/em>&#8230; I have to throw in&nbsp;<em>the German term for &#8220;living world&#8221;<\/em>&nbsp;to show that this is serious&#8230; if I fixate, not so much on making high-quality clay pots, but in manufacturing so many clay pots as to attain wealth and power, then I hire a machine or a robot to accomplish the task without illusions&#8230; er&#8230; with singular intent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the content level, the contiguity between acquisition<sub>2a<\/sub>&nbsp;and the exercise of order<sub>2a<\/sub>&nbsp;is mechanically specified, using scientific models for clay and angular momentum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the situation level,&nbsp;<em>the real clay pots that my corporation manufactures with no imaginary components<sub>2a<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;command&nbsp;<em>a certain price<sub>2b<\/sub>,<\/em>&nbsp;due to demand in a market<sub>3b<\/sub>&nbsp;that operates on voluntary exchange<sub>1b<\/sub>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Quality<sub>2b<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;can be defined as&nbsp;<em>the price<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;at which a transaction takes place<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;And so, I may begin my calculations, comparing&nbsp;<em>quality<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;<\/em>to&nbsp;<em>the actual production costs of the specified product<sub>2a<\/sub><\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The larger the difference between quality<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;and production costs<sub>2a<\/sub>, the closer I get to wealth and power for each transaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0131 Hmmm. Does this sound Buddhist in any way?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or am I missing something?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0132 I guess that I am missing&nbsp;<em>the trade-off within the transaction<sub>2b<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, I am missing&nbsp;<em>the oneness of jouissance and the potential of voluntary exchange<sub>1b<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0133 That brings me to&nbsp;<em>the Lebenswelt that we evolved in<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Our current Lebenswelt<\/em>&nbsp;is not the same as&nbsp;<em>the Lebenswelt that we evolved in<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The conclusion is obvious after reading&nbsp;<em>Comments on Michael Tomasello&#8217;s Arc of Inquiry (1999-2019)<\/em>&nbsp;by Razie Mah, available at smashwords and other e-book venues.&nbsp;&nbsp;Professor Michael Tomasello worked for many years at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.&nbsp;&nbsp;Parts of the commentary appear in Razie Mah&#8217;s blogs for January through March, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0134 Jouissance<sub>1b<\/sub>&nbsp;is about desire, under conditions where trade-offs are real.&nbsp;&nbsp;Desire is hidden within the possibility of &#8216;voluntary exchange&#8217;<sub>1b<\/sub>. My desire is not only for quality.&nbsp;&nbsp;I ask, &#8220;Will it satisfy my demands?&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;I want a good clay pot for making tea.&nbsp;&nbsp;I also am interested in a &#8220;reasonable&#8221; price.&nbsp;&nbsp;So, desire pertains to the&nbsp;<em>objet a,<\/em>&nbsp;which is composed of&nbsp;<em>the matter of price<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>the form of quality<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;[Transaction] is&nbsp;<em>the contiguity between price<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;and quality<sub>2b<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Transaction] is like a substance that makes price<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;and quality<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Transaction] is a situation-level&nbsp;<em>petit objet a<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0135 Where does&nbsp;<em>the jouissance of voluntary exchange<sub>1b<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;come from?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uh oh, am I going to talk about human evolution?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is&nbsp;<em>this type of jouissance<\/em>&nbsp;a human adaptation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0136 Michael Tomasello offers an insight.&nbsp;&nbsp;Once our distant ancestors are bipedal, in the ecology of mixed forest and savannah, individuals find that they cannot walk, bring the kids, and forage for the needed calories.&nbsp;&nbsp;So, rather than individually foraging, they adopt&nbsp;<em>collaborative foraging<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;They start working in teams, in order to take advantage of opportunities that are not available to individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, after a big rain in Africa, edible mushrooms sprout on the edges of certain dung heaps.&nbsp;&nbsp;These are not available to an individual&nbsp;<em>Homo erectus.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em>Why?&nbsp;&nbsp;Being out in the open is dangerous and, after a dozen or so mushrooms, the interloper has eaten enough.&nbsp;&nbsp;Abundance is available to a team carrying crudely manufactured baskets.&nbsp;&nbsp;A team, numbering 15, employs a certain degree of labor specialization, such as lookout, gatherer and organizer.&nbsp;&nbsp;That helps.&nbsp;&nbsp;In short order, the team gathers enough to feed&#8230; not only the team&#8230; but the entire band.&nbsp;&nbsp;The band numbers 50.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0137 In this example, pertinent to over 600,000 years ago, obligatory collaborative foraging<sub>3b<\/sub>&nbsp;is the normal context for the team.&nbsp;&nbsp;Voluntary participation reflects jouissance<sub>1b<\/sub>, as the potential of &#8216;situational truth and synthesis&#8217;.&nbsp;&nbsp;The truth is that mushrooms sprout at certain locations on the savannah after a big rain.&nbsp;&nbsp;The synthesis is that every member of the team has acquired knowledge about these mushrooms, which are edible and which should be avoided, plus habits that pertain to keeping a lookout for predators and the ability to throw a rock accurately, plus a certain know-how that keeps everyone on task and tracks how full the baskets get.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0138 The actuality involves a [trade-off].&nbsp;&nbsp;Acquiring mushrooms requires effort and risk.&nbsp;&nbsp;The quantity and quality of the mushrooms is the reward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide044.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide044.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide044.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide044-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0139 Yes, this looks very much like a transaction.&nbsp;&nbsp;It also plays out as an implicit abstraction.&nbsp;&nbsp;This is how foraging happens in&nbsp;<em>the Lebenswelt that we evolved in<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The above figure portrays a species-specific adaptation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In&nbsp;<em>our current Lebenswelt,<\/em>&nbsp;the corresponding &#8220;economic law&#8221; is codified as an explicit abstraction and formulated into some sort of equation.&nbsp;&nbsp;In this regard, the Buddhist has a point.&nbsp;&nbsp;The codified version is like an illusion.&nbsp;&nbsp;The illusion is a trap filled with apparently spiritual beings that say, &#8220;This is the&nbsp;<em>objet a<\/em>&nbsp;that you are looking for.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;Are you looking for price?&nbsp;&nbsp;Or, are you more focused on quality?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0140 That is not all.&nbsp;&nbsp;The dramatic events of living in the wild are missing.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>In the Lebenswelt that we evolved in,<\/em>situation-level team activity is contextualized by&nbsp;<em>the social-circle of the team<sub>3c<\/sub><\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Plus, the team is one<sub>3c<\/sub>, within&nbsp;<em>a panoply of social circles<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Social circles<\/em>&nbsp;characterize&nbsp;<em>hominin society<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;In this regard, see&nbsp;<em>Comments on Clive Gamble, John Gowlett and Robin Dunbar&#8217;s Book (2014) Thinking Big<\/em>&nbsp;(by Razie Mah, available at smashwords and other e-book venues).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can I go so far as to say the following?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mushrooms growing around steaming wet turds<sub>2a<\/sub>, the gathering of the mushrooms by a team on the open savannah<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;and the sharing of those mushrooms with friends and family<sub>2c<\/sub>&nbsp;work in tandem.&nbsp;&nbsp;One flows into the other in a virtual category-based nested form.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The flow<\/em>&nbsp;illuminates an evolutionarily deep expression of Zizek&#8217;s configuration, as shown in the following figure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0141 Here is a picture of&nbsp;<em>the perspective-level<\/em>&nbsp;that virtually contextualizes the situation-level of obligatory collaborative foraging<sub>3b<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide045.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide045.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide045.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide045-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0142 Notice, that the contiguity is not [wealth and power].&nbsp;&nbsp;It is [indirect reciprocity], the expectation that, in giving now, one will later receive a return.&nbsp;&nbsp;The [transaction] of&nbsp;<em>our current Lebenswelt<\/em>&nbsp;supports [direct reciprocity]<sub>2c<\/sub>, the expectation that I give now and immediately get something in return.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Direct reciprocity]<sub>2c<\/sub>?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t that sound like [wealth and power]<sub>2c<\/sub>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nothing is given without an expectation of return?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless, in our current Lebenswelt, [indirect reciprocity]<sub>2c<\/sub>&nbsp;offers an alternate label for [wealth and power]<sub>2c<\/sub>. And, Christ<sub>3c<\/sub>&nbsp;raises the ante with [altruism]<sub>2c<\/sub>, which is&nbsp;<em>giving with no expectation of return<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Surely, these are illusions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, they are also adaptations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0143 Does this explain why Lacan is not a Buddhist?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0129 Back to that law of economics that falls into the lap of a Buddhist economist, while playing with Zizek&#8217;s configuration. Does Buddhism or does Zizek&#8217;s configuration account for this law? Don&#8217;t ask me. 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