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Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Monday, June 19, 2017
The Courage of Hopelessness — Video
( June 18, 2017, Boston, Sri Lanka Guardian) In
these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future
ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all
that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Yet, argues Slavoj
Žižek, it is only when we have admit 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 migration and geopolitical
tensions to terrorism, the explosion of rightist populism and the
emergence of new radical politics – all of which, in their own way,
express the impasses of global capitalism – Žižek explores whether there
still remains the possibility for genuine change. Today, he proposes,
the only true question is, or should be, this: do we endorse the
predominant acceptance of capitalism as a fact of human nature, or does
today’s capitalism contain strong enough antagonisms to prevent its
infinite reproduction? Can we, he asks, move beyond the failure of
socialism, and beyond the current wave of populist rage, and initiate
radical change before the train hits?