While on the road, when I am not driving, and we are not talking – I plan to read more from Slavoj Zizek’s book The Courage of Hopelessness A Year of Acting Dangerously. Here are ideas from a paragraph in the first chapter.

Today’s globalization, as a capitalist system,
came to determine all conditions of life….
the inevitable exclusivity of globalization
as the construction and expansion of a world interior
whose boundaries are invisible,
yet virtually insurmountable from without,
and which is now inhabited by
the one and a half billion “winners” of globalization.
Three times this number are left standing outside the door.

Consequently,
the world interior of capital is not an agora or a trade fair
beneath the open sky,
but rather a hothouse
that has drawn inward everything that was once on the outside.
This interior, built on capitalist excesses determines everything:

The primary fact of the Modern Age
was not that the earth goes around the sun,
but that money goes around the earth.

The two aspects of capitalism are inseparable:
it’s global reach grounded in the way it introduces
a radical class division across the entire globe,
separating those protected by the sphere
from those outside its cover.

— excerpt from the chapter entitled Global Capitalism
And It’s Discontents p. 11 by Slavoj Zizek

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These few lines are a presentation of a thesis by the author from Peter Sloterdijk’s book, In the World Interior of Capital, published 2013.  I plan to buy a copy.