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When I say we live in a post-political world, I refer to a wrong ideological impression. We don't really live in such a world, but the existing universe presents itself as post-political in the sense that there is some kind of a basic social pact that elementary social decisions are no longer discussed as political decisions. They are turned into simple decisions of gesture and of administration. And the remaining conflicts are mostly conflicts about different cultures. We have the present form of global capitalism plus some kind of tolerant democracy as the ultimate form of that idea. And, paradoxically, only very few are ready to question this world.
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When I say we live in a post-[[political]] [[world]], I refer to a wrong [[ideological]] impression. We don't really live in such a world, but the existing [[universe]] presents itself as post-political in the [[sense]] that there is some kind of a basic [[social]] pact that elementary social decisions are no longer discussed as political decisions. They are turned into simple decisions of gesture and of administration. And the remaining conflicts are mostly conflicts [[about]] different cultures. We have the [[present]] [[form]] of [[global]] [[capitalism]] plus some kind of tolerant [[democracy]] as the ultimate form of that [[idea]]. And, paradoxically, only very few are ready to question this world.
  
 
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Latest revision as of 21:14, 20 May 2019

When I say we live in a post-political world, I refer to a wrong ideological impression. We don't really live in such a world, but the existing universe presents itself as post-political in the sense that there is some kind of a basic social pact that elementary social decisions are no longer discussed as political decisions. They are turned into simple decisions of gesture and of administration. And the remaining conflicts are mostly conflicts about different cultures. We have the present form of global capitalism plus some kind of tolerant democracy as the ultimate form of that idea. And, paradoxically, only very few are ready to question this world.