In the wake of blood-stained butcher Suchinda Kraprayoon’s applause for the Abhisit Vejjajiva administration, this from Slavoj Zizek:
“The ‘conspiracy-theory’ provides a guarantee that the field of the big Other is not an inconsistent bricolage: its basic premise is that, behind the public Master (who, of course, is an impostor), there is a hidden Master who effectively keeps everything under control. ‘Totalitarian’ regimes were especially skilled in cultivating the myth of a secret parallel power, invisible and for that reason all-powerful, a kind of ‘organization within the organization’ – KGB, Freemasons, or whatever – that compensated for the blatant inefficiency of the public, legal Power and thus assured the smooth operation of the social machine: this myth is not only in no way subversive, it serves as the ultimate support of Power … if we are to overcome the ‘effective’ social power, we have first to break its fantasmatic hold upon us.”
“Between Symbolic Fiction and Fantasmatic Spectre” in Interrogating the Real (London: Continuum, 2008), pp.230-1.
