RE: Happiness/GDP in China

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[Masacree]

Today’s predominant mode of politics is a politics of fear, a defense against potential victimization or harassment: fear of immigrants, fear of crime, fear of godless sexual depravity, fear of the excessive State itself (with too high taxation), fear of ecological catastrophies, fear of harassment (which is why Political Correctness is the exemplary liberal form of the politics of fear). Such a politics always relies on the frightening rallying of frightened men. The big event in Europe in the early 2006 was that the anti-immigration politics “went mainstream”: they finally cut the umbilical link that connected them to the far Right fringe parties. From France to Germany, from Austria to Holland, in the new spirit of pride at one’s cultural and historical identity, the main parties now find it acceptable to stress that the immigrants are guests who have to accommodate themselves to the cultural values that define the host society – it is “our country, love it or leave it.”

This is why the “clash of civilizations” is the Huntington's disease of our time – as Samuel Huntington put it, after the end of the Cold War, the “iron curtain of ideology” has been replaced by the “velvet curtain of culture.” This dark vision may appear the very opposite of Francis Fukuyama’s bright prospect of the End of History in the guise of a world-wide liberal democracy; perhaps, however, the »clash of civilizations« IS »the end of history,« i.e., the ethnico-religious conflicts are the form of struggle which fits global capitalism. In our age of »post-politics,« when politics proper is progressively replaced by expert social administration, the only remaining legitimate source of conflicts are cultural (ethnic, religious) tensions. 

So, to quote President Bush’s unforgettable Freudian condensation, do not misunderestimate Children of Men – Cuaron’s new film strikes at the very heart of our predicament.

[Unkn0wn]

What the fuck?

Since when did you become a spam bot?

[Demon767]

hacked? :O

[Sachaztan]

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[PonySlaystation]

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[tank130]

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[Tymathee]

i bet it was like password or something