The paradise of the title is the democratic and liberal capitalism that for decades has sold us as the best possible social order, and the problems are, naturally, the chains of that ghost that, for lack of a better name, for years we have called crisis economic. Slavoj ZiZek comes to our aid with his new work, where, with his lucid style and his inimitable mix of erudition and popular culture, he offers us an accurate diagnosis of this social and political moment that condemns citizens to an increasingly passive role. and powerless.