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Zizek in The Guardian ..

the journalist Fareed Zakaria pointed out how democracy can only “catch on” in economically developed countries. If developing countries are “prematurely democratised” the result is a populism that ends in economic catastrophe .. What is new today is that, with the financial crisis that began in 2008, this same distrust of democracy – once constrained to the third world or post-communist developing countries – is gaining ground in the developed west itself: what was a decade or two ago patronising advice to others now concerns ourselves .. the true message of the “irrational” popular protests all around Europe [is that] the protesters know very well what they don’t know; they don’t pretend to have fast and easy answers; but what their instinct is telling them is [] that those in power also don’t know it [either]. In Europe today, the blind are leading the blind

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