modernity ⁽¹⁾

Displaced belief (exemplum) : “Do you believe in god?” “No, but I go to church to keep the children happy.” I think Slavoj Žižek describes it correctly, but is wrong about the dates. Displaced belief is the basic compromise of 'modernity' which goes back into the late paleolithic. Well before Žižek’s example of Luther, well before Bruno Snell’s Discovery of the Greek…