Just finished reading Slavoj Zizek's First as Tragedy, Then as Farce.
It was definitely dense and full of tangents within tangents, but when he hits it on the nose- he really HITS it.
"We should thus ruthlessly abandon the prejudice that the linear time of evolution is "on our side," that History is "working for us" like the famous old mole digging under the earth, doing the work of the Cunning of Reason. Should we then conceive of history as an open process in which we are offered choice? Within this logic, history determines only the alternatives we face, the terms of the choice, but not the choice itself. At each moment of time, there are multiple possibilities waiting to be realized; once one of them is actualized, others are cancelled. The supreme case of such an agent of historical time is the Leibnizian God who created the best possible world: before creation, he had in mind the entire panoply of possible worlds, and his decision consisted in choosing the best among these options. Here, possibility precedes choice: the choice is a choice among possiblities."
-Zizek
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