The first part of the text presents critical response to the still predominant trust in automatic linear global "progress". Despite the dramatic cases, it appears that the problem of unsustainable management of modern hyper complex societies is not yet conceived. Because of this, more than anything else it is difficult to present a convincing alternative to the existing unsustainable, self-destructive social systems. Due to the increasing complexity of the societies even the hierarchy of the problems is a growing problem. This is why neo-liberal simplified strategy is gaining support since even the fundamental developmental issues should be selected by the market. In the next part the text deals with the Slovene crisis as the ilustrative example of creative helplessness and blunders of "the end of history ideology". In the background is an unfinished modernisation, as the basic structural factor that motivates the simplistic naïve understanding of regional and global integration processes. In the final part the text is trying to justify the rationality of utopian thinking, but not in the form of concrete social constructions, which are inevitably followed by a disillusionment, but as a method of assessing alternatives to maintain "the horizon of hope". This idea makes sense following the observation that the key problem in fact is not the magnitude of the crisis, but in particular the deficit of convincing ideas about how to create something really new and different.
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