I don't think there is any natural balance to which wecan return. To be free in our daily, ordinary life means that you are tree only within a certain network of implicit and explicit rules. In some basic sense, what does it mean to be a human being? Now i am more as you and i proudly assume the term 'spiccis'
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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