Struck now, reading it in the age of Trump (i.e. Thiel), how Girard-compatible Chua's World on Fire is. Envy-contagion as driver of history.
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... Chua demands a softly esoteric reading, because: a) She layers a scrupulously PC veneer over her insights, and (more importantly) ...
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... b) She sees ethnonationalism being confused with socialism, rather than -- from the beginning -- explaining what the latter really is.
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... She predicts -- in 2003 -- an enraged irruption of atavistic tribalism, in response to the contradictions of liberal democracy. ...
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... That has to be worth a few Cassandra points, irrespective of the mealy-mouthed polite-society platitudes.
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