{"id":3323,"date":"2011-01-17T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.transversalmedia.eu\/this-is-precisely-our-situation-today-we-face-the\/"},"modified":"2011-01-17T13:00:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T13:00:07","slug":"this-is-precisely-our-situation-today-we-face-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theresearchpapers.org\/archive\/this-is-precisely-our-situation-today-we-face-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This is precisely our situation today: we face the shameless cynicism of a global order whose agents only imagine that they believe in their ideas of democracy, human rights and so on. Through actions like the WikiLeaks disclosures, the shame \u2013 our shame for tolerating such power over us \u2013 is made more shameful by being publicised. When the US intervenes in Iraq to bring secular democracy, and the result is the strengthening of religious fundamentalism and a much stronger Iran, this is not the tragic mistake of a sincere agent, but the case of a cynical trickster being beaten at his own game.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v33\/n02\/slavoj-zizek\/good-manners-in-the-age-of-wikileaks\">Slavoj \u017di\u017eek \u00b7 Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, from the same article:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The ultimate show of power on the part of the ruling ideology is to  allow what appears to be powerful criticism. There is no lack of  anti-capitalism today. We are overloaded with critiques of the horrors  of capitalism: books, in-depth investigative journalism and TV  documentaries expose the companies that are ruthlessly polluting our  environment, the corrupt bankers who continue to receive fat bonuses  while their banks are rescued by public money, the sweatshops in which  children work as slaves etc. However, there is a catch: what isn\u2019t  questioned in these critiques is the democratic-liberal framing of the  fight against these excesses. The (explicit or implied) goal is to  democratise capitalism, to extend democratic control to the economy by  means of media pressure, parliamentary inquiries, harsher laws, honest  police investigations and so on. But the institutional set-up of the  (bourgeois) democratic state is never questioned. This remains  sacrosanct even to the most radical forms of \u2018ethical anti-capitalism\u2019  (the Porto Allegre forum, the Seattle movement etc).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Incidentally, after hearing him speak many times, I have troubles reading \u017di\u017eek as, in my mind, I read whatever he writes in his distinctive \u017di\u017eek accent, adding &ldquo;and so on and so forth&rdquo; randomly at the end of his statements. I guess his media friendly persona ate the writer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is precisely our situation today: we face the shameless cynicism of a global order whose agents only imagine that they believe in their ideas of democracy, human rights and so on. 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