" This brings us to the specific temporality of the symbolic event: the abrupt reversal of ‘not yet’ into ‘always-already.’ There is always a gap between formal and material change: things gradually change at the material level, and this change is subterranean, like a secret spreading of a deadly infection; when the struggle erupts into the open, the mole has already finished its work and the battle is de facto over – all one has to do is to remind those in power to look down and perceive how there is no longer any ground under their feet, and the whole edifice collapses like a house of cards. "

― Slavoj Žižek , Event