Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years
ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist,
fascist, capitalist, whatever. Today, nobody even debates these issues.
We all silently accept global capitalism is here to stay. On the other
hand, we are obsessed with cosmic catastrophes: the whole life on earth
disintegrating, because of some virus, because of an asteroid hitting
the earth, and so on. So the paradox is, that it's much easier to
imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical
change in capitalism.
Slavoj Žižek in Žižek! (2005)
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