critical theory with slavoj zizek: With all my admiration for Noam Chomsky, I partially disagree with him. It’s an underlying premise of his work that you don’t have to do any theory — just tell all the facts to the people. The way ideology works today is much more mysterious — not more complex, one can always say this, things are always more complex, it means nothing just to say this. People just do not want to know too much. There’s an active refusal to know. If you ask average citizens with enough of their own worries, they’d say, “Don’t even tell me this. We pay taxes so the government can do all the dirty things that I don’t want to know about.”