Either [we will see] more aggressivity towards the threatening Outside in short: to a paranoiac acting out. Or [we] will finally risk stepping through the fantasmatic screen that separates it from the Outside World: accepting its arrival in the Real world, making the long-overdue move from ‘A thing like this shouldn’t happen here!’ to 'A thing like this shouldn’t happen anywhere!’. That is the true lesson of the attacks: the only way to ensure that it will not happen here again is to prevent it happening anywhere else.

SLAVOJ ZIZEK on attacks in the West. Welcome To The Desert Of The Real http://ift.tt/29NP4Qh