Malaparte vs. de Beauvoir; Idi Amin and the Mamdanis' Antifascism
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Malaparte vs. de Beauvoir; Idi Amin and the Mamdanis' Antifascism
In the states of savagery, of barbarism, in nomadic culture, medieval society, in the tribe and the clan, one’s position was fixed by the commandments of the community. It was only with the advent of modernity (starting with the ancient Greeks), with the birth of freedom and of the individual, that such matters ascended to the fore. These are not e
... See moreSteven Pressfield • The War of Art
Hyper-individualism rests upon an emancipation story. The heroic self breaks free from the stifling chains of society. The self stands on its own two feet, determines its own destiny, secures its own individual rights. Hyper-individualism defines freedom as absence from restraint. In this way, hyper-individualism gradually undermines any connection... See more
David Brooks • The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
In considering the tendency of objective knowledge to excite tyrannical tendencies, and ‘self-knowledge’ to require the surrender of the hero, we turn up a seeming paradox. The tyrant’s attention is self-focused.
Philip Shepherd • Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being
That sentence—“exterminate all the brutes”—is the murderous annihilatory impulse to pursue one’s interests at all costs. It is the supremacist mindset that casts the extinguishments of entire peoples and cultures not merely as an unavoidable element of the march of progress but also as a salutary stage in the evolution of the human species.