Enjoy Your Nation as Yourself! (was: 'Psychological' )

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Ken:
>Why was the "West" so fascinated by the disintegration of
>Communism in Eastern Europe? (asks Slavoj Zizek).
>
>Because democracy in "the West" shows signs of decay and
>crisis and is lost in bureaucratic routine and publicity
>style election campaigns (the politics of fashion).

Signs of 'decay and crisis' of 'democracy' in the 'West'?  As if it had
ever been anything better than what it is now!  Then again, Zizek is a
liberal democrat....

Yoshie