Through the Glasses Darkly

What if the between-the-lines Republican message (don't be afraid, there will be no real change) is the true illusion?

By Slavoj Žižek

When the hero of John Carpenter's 1988 They Live puts on a pair of weird sunglasses that he has stumbled upon in an abandoned church, he notices a billboard that once invited us to a Hawaii beach holiday now simply displays the words: "MARRY AND REPRODUCE." [RETURN TO ARTICLE]