The Basic Paradox of Our Social Life

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When i was serving the army old ugslavarn 76, I noticed how you have ruled discipline and then you have a whole network of implicit rules which told you how to violate rutes. Many gay people don't when i powned this ouse out, but it's so true. On the one hand, at the explicit level, the army universe was totally homophobic. But do you know that at the same time, i never was in a social space so penetrated by homosex innuendos as in the army? When i met a soldier in my unit in the morning, we didn't say each od to each other selow, good morning. The strict formula

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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