We Are Addicts to Chaos

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We are addicted to the system. And precisely because of this, you will never stop. My big problem is, when was it the last election that tony blair won? I was in the ucreand i remember two weeks before elections, there was a big opinion pals on tz big sow. Tens of thousand le voted, who is the most unpopular person in the uce? Tony blair,. Two weeks afterwards, he won the general election. Wasn't it the same in france, relegon the yellow west)? An incredible satisfaction. It was impossible to translate it into the terms of our normal multiparty political system. The same with podemos in spain

Florence Read meets Slavoj Žižek.

In his new book 'Surplus Enjoyment: A Guide for the Non-Perplexed', psychoanalyst and Marxist philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that Western decadence has reached a point of no return. When it comes to the simultaneous crises of climate change, the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, he asserts, only a cooperative global effort will steer us away from catastrophe. But have the culture wars weakened the West too much to regain order in disordered times? Slavoj Žižek joined UnHerd's Florence Read, live from his home in Slovenia, to discuss the cure for chaos.

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