Since the end of the war against Iran, there has been a sense of suffocation of almost two years. Reality has become a busy place of noise, shout and pain that has no words. It is difficult to distinguish between fact and interpretation, between memory and trauma. Everything mixes in a flat and flat discourse, a kind of thick soup where it is almost impossible to say something that will sound true. But maybe here, in the confusion, there is room for philosophy – not as a smart answer, but as an open question, as a breath.
The Slovenian philosopher Salvoy Jazzk, who is now considered one of the most important and influential thinkers in the world, describes exactly what is happening to us now: “We know very well that this is not true, but we continue to act as if it is true.”