First as tragedy, then as farce

Difficult to follow, unnecessarily referential; am I supposed to have Wikipedia open whilst reading pop philosophy?

I like Slavoj's brand of leftism. It's bold, unapologetic and he doesn't try to intellectualise concepts away into obscure inaccessibility. I don't always agree with the implicit morality beneath some of this arguments, but that's neither here nor there. This book is just hard to read – not in a “Kant is hard to read” but in a “this Facebook comment chain keeps getting derailed”, (before they introduced nesting replies, of course). Stick to the point!