“Populism is ultimately always sustained…by the cry ‘I don’t know what’s going on, but I’ve just had enough of it! It cannot go on! It must stop!’ Such impatient outbursts betray a refusal to understand or engage with the complexity of the situation, and give rise to the conviction that there must be somebody responsible for the mess—which is why some agent lurking behind the scenes is invariably required. Therein, in this refusal-to-know, resides the properly fetishistic dimension of populism.”— Slavoj Žižek, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
(Emphasis mine.) Loving the Žižek quotes.
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(Emphasis mine.) Loving the Žižek quotes.
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