I'll admit, I read this just for the title. Did I expect something deeper than the somewhat facile that history is not a linear trajectory? Yes. And sprinkling a little Daoism on top didn't fix it.
Non-universal configurations, or states of being, can exist simultaneously on trajectories that are not predetermined...[and this] fits our circumstances perfectly.
I was hoping for some interesting way to think about history and our current reality. It was not proposed. Rather it turned out to be about political movements in society.
“Europe is our last hope,” as he puts it. At least, for now, it is striving to get beyond the haunting tribal passions of its past through norms and transnational institutions governed by law and the rule of reason.
That is not my impression of things.
The article is a summary of a talk by Slavoj Žižek, so perhaps I should have pursued the original...but I don't think I will.