The Liberal Establishment Is ‘a Stranger to Self-Examination’

 

いつもの英米のリベラルなエスタブとその太鼓持ち批判なのだけれど、BLM運動の国際性云々に冷や水を浴びせたところはよかった。via @thenation https://t.co/CBNlsqqONF

— mozu (@mozumozumozu) November 23, 2020

The Liberal Establishment Is ‘a Stranger to Self-Examination’

うんっ！表題はいいねえ。

the default intellectual culture in Anglo-America is overwhelmingly right wing. It tends to take reactionary and anti-left positions and has done so for a long time. The names can change. People can switch institutional affiliations. But the defense of the establishment and the US-led liberal order and other Cold War verities such as classical liberalism, Western values, the Enlightenment, and Zionism remains their primary task. This is the legacy of the lucrative conformism noted by Alfred Kazin and Czeslaw Milosz

結局、・・自己中心、アメリカ中心 主義

A figure like Gandhi had a broader experience of the world, in three different continents—Asia, Africa, and Europe—than the Frankfurt school theorists when he wrote of the mass deceptions and hidden violence of Western democracies. And Hannah Arendt hadn’t started writing about British concentration camps in South Africa when Jawaharlal Nehru declared fascism as the twin of Western imperialism. 

To take one instance, Rabindranath Tagore wrote some of sharpest critiques of competitive nationalisms and imperialisms—of Japan as well as the United States—in the 1910s and 1920s while Thomas Mann and many other German, French, and Italian writers were still going on about the glories of their civilizations. 

 欧米の有名人ばかりがスター扱いだからな。