Meditações - Events don't unfold from the past; they retroactively reshape it

Neither science or democracy will deliver a coherent future

Slavoj Žižek

(In his new book Quantum History, Žižek argues that incompleteness isn't a failure of knowledge but a property of existence itself. Events don't unfold from the past; they retroactively reshape it.

In conversation with Omari Edwards, he applies this to politics: the collapse of the liberal centre, Trump as symptom, and the quiet rise of authoritarian capitalism… all signs, he argues, that we need not better policy, but an entirely new way of thinking.)

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