THE COURAGE OF HOPELESSNESS

In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as b ad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel.Yet, argues Slavoj iek, it is only when we have admitted to ourselves that our situation is completely hopeless - that the light at the end of the tunnel is in fact the headlight of a train approaching us from the opposite direction - that fundamental change can be brought about.Surveying the various challenges in the world today, from mass m...[Leer más]