Slovenian Marxist philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that humanity faces three major crises: environmental collapse, artificial intelligence, and the threat of global war. He says existing political and economic systems lack the mechanisms to confront them. Invoking Antonio Gramsci, Žižek describes a “morbid” interregnum in which the old liberal world order is dying but the new cannot be born, leading to a "universalized morbidity" that is darker than traditional capitalism, bordering on a form of digital feudalism, as described by Yanis Varoufakis. He says Donald Trump is a symptom of the American state’s failures and criticizes the Left for prioritizing political correctness and opposition to Trump over developing a concrete vision rooted in social solidarity and morality. Žižek raises the possibility that confronting these crises may require a form of “leftist authoritarianism” or emergency state intervention to implement the necessary and bitter measures to survive upcoming catastrophes. 🎥 BBC Newsnight