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THE COURAGE OF HOPELESSNESS

THE COURAGE OF HOPELESSNESS

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 Dinesh
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. . . .In today’s globalization, the world system completed its development and, as a capitalist system, came to determine all conditions of life. The first symbol of this development was the Crystal Palace in London, the site of the first world exhibition in 1851, the inevitable exclusivity of globalization as the construction and expansion of the world interior whose boundaries are invisible, yet virtually insurmountable from without, and which is now inhabited by the one and a half billion ‘winners’ of globalization. Three times this number are left standing outside the door. Consequently, ‘the world interior of capital is not an ‘agora’ or a trade fair beneath the open sky, but rather a hothouse that has drawn inwards everything that was once on the outside.’ This interior, built on capitalist excesses, determines everything: ‘The primary fact of the Modern Age was not that the earth goes around the sun, but that money goes around the earth. . . . . Page 11
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The following excerpt is from "Identity" -- Author 'Francis Fukuyama

. . . .Rural people, who are the backbone of populist movements not just in the United States but in Britain, Hungary, Poland, and other countries, often believe that their traditional values are under severe threat by cosmopolitan, city-based elites. They feel victimized by a secular culture that is careful not to criticize Islam or Judaism, yet regards their own Christianity as a mark of bigotry. They feel that the elite media have put them in danger by their political correctness, as when the mainstream German press failed to report for several days an incident of mass groping and sexual assault by a crowd of mostly Muslim men at a 2016 New Year’s celebration in Cologne, all for fear of stroking Islamophobia. ~ Page 120

Similar things are happening in other liberal democracies. White nationalism has a long history in Europe, where it was called fascism. Fascism was defeated militarily in 1945 and has been carefully suppressed ever since. But recent events have loosened some of the restraints. As a result of the refugee crisis of the mid-2010s, a panic has arisen in Eastern Europe over the possibility that Muslim migrants might shift the region’s demographic balance. In November 2917, on the anniversary of Poland’s independence, an estimated sixty thousand people marched through Warsaw chanting ‘Pure Poland, white Poland’ and “Refugees get out!” (this was despite Poland’s being hom to a relatively small number of refugees.) the ruling populist Law and Justice party distanced itself from the demonstrators, but like Donald Trump, sent mixed signals that suggested it was not entirely unsympathetic to the aims of the marchers.

. . . The remedy for this is not to abandon the idea of identity, which is too much a aprt of the way that modern people think about themselves and their surrounding societies. The remedy is to define larger and more integrative national identities that take account of the de facto diversity of existing liberal democratic societies. This will be the subject of the two following chapter. ~ Page 121/122
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IDENTITY
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