Is the State at Its Best?

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The symbols of surplus enjoyment, cocacola and macdonald abaks have all fled from russia after the invasion of ukraine. Should we be getting rid of them from america and europe as well? That's a good question. I think that sometimes the multiplicity of choices can mask the real choice. The identification of freedom with choice is a fake. We need something like an efficient state. So fight for good alienation ente ent ent. And please remember that beneath your beautiful liberal appearance, now, your stalinitself should come up.

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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