How come it is easier for us to imagine the end of all life on Earth, an asteroid hitting the planet, than a modest change in our economic order?
Perhaps the time has come to set our possibilities straight and to become realists by way of demanding what appears as impossible in the economic domain.
The surprising explosion of Occupy Wall Street protests, the mass mobilization in Greece, the crowds on Tahrir Square, they all bear witness to the hidden potential for a different future. There is no guarantee that this future will arrive, no train of history on which we simply have to take a ride. It depends on us, on our will.
Slavoj Žižek in “The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology”
First published May 21, 2015
(The end-of-the-world thing was not Žižek’s but I’m not sure its origin.)