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‘If land could be had as easily as air, no one would pay rent’, wrote the young Engels. He could not imagine that the converse might one day become true: in an era where clean air is becoming scarce, we will soon, one way or another, be forced to pay for it.
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
While the word ‘democracy’ was thus reinterpreted as the name of a liberal individualism opposed to state collectivism, the corresponding demos was at the same time redefined or reimagined in a neo-traditionalist fashion as an ethnos whose identity was threatened by the ‘permissive society’, another name for the social, racial, sexual and generational emancipation that was then vigorously underway. The strange ideological unity of this liberal-conservative populism was inseparably individualistic and authoritarian, entrepreneurial and traditionalist. __Economic neoliberalism, entering the sphere of politics, was thus associated with a kind of national-democratism with sexist, homophobic and racist overtones. It was in this contradictory, slowburning unity that one of the major sources of the current political pathologies of Western liberal democracies undoubtedly lies.__
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
For the first time, she realizes that being alone is a contradiction in terms. Even in a body’s most private moments, something else joins in.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
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