Ghost of a flea

Slavoj Žižek on Star Wars: Revenge of Global Finance

"Where, then, does this leave us? The ultimate postmodern irony is today’s strange exchange between the West and the East. At the very moment when, at the level of 'economic infrastructure,' Western technology and capitalism are triumphing worldwide, at the level of 'ideological superstructure,' the Judeo-Christian legacy is threatened in the West itself by the onslaught of New Age 'Asiatic' thought. Such Eastern wisdom, from 'Western Buddhism' to Taoism, is establishing itself as the hegemonic ideology of global capitalism. But while Western Buddhism presents itself as the remedy against the stress of capitalism’s dynamics–by allowing us to uncouple and retain some inner peace–it actually functions as the perfect ideological supplement."

Posted by Ghost of a flea at December 17, 2015 09:28 AM