Note by Slavoj Žižek on Substack
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Note by Slavoj Žižek on Substack
Dreams are an essential part of a vital life, but they cannot become more real than reality. The trap I fall into is letting my fondness for an ideal future become a fixation on fantasy. Dazed by the divine image of how things could look, instead of working with the raw and gritty reality of my real life.
Tommy Dixon • How to design a good life
Why is it in so many circles, dreaming is thought of as frivolous, individualistic, escapist? As something that is running from reality? I think that’s something that a colonial white imagination is trying to teach us, that dreaming means a rejection of what is, of logic, normality