What a friend has to say.
Zizek, who writes in The Guardian, always takes a contrary view to the popular one.
Sometime's he's on the ball, sometimes just mad, but always interesting.
It did stick in the craw a bit that an American president would receive the biggest cheer at Mandela's funeral when the apartheid regime could not have kept going without the support of the US and only when the US and UK began to withdraw support, after the end of the Cold War, did the regime begin to crumble. Or am I mad too?
But before I read Zizek I had drafted something comparing the funerals of JPII and Mandela with the funerals of John the Baptist and Jesus, our faith is in someone who left this world despised and rejected by everyone except his closest family and friends.
The link to the article: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/09/if-nelson-mandela-really-had-won
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