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Vera Keller

2010-04-27 Origins of Modern Public, CBC Ideas

My main view, which I wish people would think about it, is that, you know that 19th Century commonplace that if you don’t know history you’re doomed to repeat it? That’s what most people think’s,the reason why you do history, is you’re doomed to repeat it. Historians don’t think that you’re doomed to repeat it, historians don’t think in cycles of history the way they did in say, the 14th Century, we think in terms of arrows of time. You’re not doomed to repeat anything, what you’re doomed to do is to continue it. Early Modern Euprope has established so much of the modern world, and so many of the ideas that we have in our brain were thought up, once upon a time, for some reason, that made sense perhaps, perhaps not, at that time. We continue to have those ideas inside our heads and we don’t even realize that they’re products of history, unless you understand the history, you have no choice to examine those ideas and decide whether or not they make sense, whether they’re moral, whether they have anything to do with you or your culture. And so it’s only by understanding your whole world as a historical product and specifically as a product of Early Modern Europe that you can do anything to change your world. [51:23]

Slavoj Zizek on Democracy Now! October 18 2010

The Left have abandoned the proletariat-classes and their grievances are now addressed by fundamentalists with Right-leaning ideology.

John Le Caré on Democracy Now! October 11 2010