In der vorigen Woche ist Bettina Gaus gestorben, sie wurde nur 64 Jahre alt. Ihr Tod ist ein schwerer Verlust, nicht nur für jene, die ihr nahe waren.
I was at Günter Gaus’s grave one year ago today. Much of life in this dystopia seems an extended bidding farewell to modernity.
„In every society there is a whole network of unwritten rules, how politics works, and how you build consensus. Trump disturbed this. And if Trump wins, both big parties, Republicans and Democrats would have to return to basics, rethink themselves, and maybe some things can happen there.
That’s my desperate, very desperate hope, …“
Full transcript: Žižek website.
This was the day before the election five years ago, 03.11.2016. The Democrats have not been, and show no signs of starting to, fundamentally rethinking themselves – their version of rethinking is consideration of how to be seen as better Republicans. US and UK media carry on covering Democratic operative struggles within quite a narrow conceptual spectrum. I have found it quite easy to substitute „Biden“ for „Hillary“ without altering the substance of Žižek’s statement here.
