Monday, January 3, 2011

What are We Doing at War in the First Place?

“In its very invisibility, ideology is here, more than ever: We are there, with our boys, identifying with their fears and anguishes instead of questioning what they are doing at war in the first place.”
Slavoj Žižek, “A Soft Focus on War: How Hollywood hides the horrors of war.” In These Times,
April 21, 2010.