Looking for a certain link for yesterday's book review I remembered just how much I dislike Slavoj Zizek. He is in my humble opinion the worst human being alive today. As if his philosophy, worldview and policy goals weren't bad enough, he also seems to be an extremely shitty person.

Now, many famous intellectuals were horrible or pathetic people; Socrates supposedly couldn't deal with his wife, Rainer Maria Rilke refused to go to his daughter's wedding because he was hoping to write a poem, Franz Kafka was a complete pussy etc. etc. Zizek, however, manages to be both horrible and pathetic at the same time, and does a great job of revealing those qualities in this interview with the Guardian. Half the answers could just as well have come from a depressed fat teenage goth girl and the rest are even worse. This one is the most repulsive of all:

What makes you depressed?

Seeing stupid people happy.

However pathetic it is to resent the happiness of one's fellow human beings, I could at least understand if someone was jealous of smart people, rich people or good-looking people; they at least have something to envy and better chances at gaining happiness. But stupid people? Being stupid never made for an easy life and it's definitely not easy in our high-tech world. Stupid people don't have much to be happy about, and it's no surprise that they are more likely to suffer clinical depression than the rest of us. To begrudge stupid people what little happiness they get in their lives and then get depressed over it yourself takes a real fucking shithead.