“At this point, we reach the supreme irony: as it functions today, ideology appears as it’s exact opposite, as a radical critique of ideological utopias. The predominant ideology now is not a positive vision of some utopian future, but a cynical resignation, an acceptance of how ‘the world really is,’ accompanied by a warring that if we want to change it too much, only totalitarian horror will ensue. Every vision of another world is dismissed as ideology. Alain Baidou puts it in a wonderful and precise way: the main function of ideological censorship is not to crush actual resistance – this is the job of repressive state apparatuses – but to crush hope immediately to denounce every critical project as opening a path at the end of which is something like a gulag.”
— Slavoj Žižek, “Like a Thief in Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism” (2018).
