The Central Task of the Ruling Ideology

"The central task of the ruling ideology in the present crises is to impose a narrative which will place the blame for the meltdown not on the global capitalist system as such, but on secondary and contingent deviations (overly lax legal regulations, the corruption of big financial institutions, and so on)."

Slavoj Žižek, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce. Verso Books, London/New York 2009, p. 19.