By Bernard-Henri Lévy
During this remarkable critique, Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of many world’s major intellectuals revisits his political roots, scrutinizes the totalitarianisms of the previous in addition to these at the horizon, and argues powerfully for a brand new political and ethical imaginative and prescient for our instances. Are human rights Western or common? Does anti-Semitism have a destiny, and, if this is the case, what is going to it seem like? and the way is it that progressives themselves–those who some time past defended person rights and fought fascism–have now turn into the breeding floor for brand new types of risky attitudes: an unthinking loathing of Israel; an obsessive anti-Americanism; an concept of “tolerance” that, in its justification of Islamic fanaticism, for instance, may possibly turn into the “cemetery of democracies”; and an indifference, masked via relativism, to the best human tragedies dealing with the realm at the present time? Illuminating those and different questions, Lévy additionally brings to lifestyles his personal autobiography, highlighting the thinkers he has identified and scrutinized and the ideological battles he has fought over thirty years–revealing their concerning the present.
Above all, Lévy bargains a robust new imaginative and prescient for progressives all over the place, one dependent neither at the failed idealisms of the earlier neither nor on their present erroneous, bigoted, and dangerously sentimental attachments yet on an absolute dedication to wrestle evil in all its guises. The “new barbarism” Levy compellingly diagnoses is actual and needs to be faced. At a time of ideological and political transition in the USA, Left in darkish occasions is a polemical, incendiary articulation of the threats all of us face–in many situations with no our even being conscious of it–and a riveting, cogent stand opposed to these threats. dazzling and likely to be arguable, clever and freed from cynicism, it truly is probably the most very important books but written via one of the voices of our time.
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I was born during the day, but not yesterday and I realized a long time ago that the caca that passes for “news” is just that: caca. Norah O’Donnell readily and unashamedly admitted to me that she deliberately, intentionally and will full knowledge aforethought spreads propaganda that she knows is not true! She conspired with others on her production team to broadcast lies. How often does this happen? Most of the time? “News” shows are not only lying but are fully aware that they are propagandizing you.
During the Crass Materialism Holidays (ooops, I mean Christmas), not only does the White House light many trees, but municipalities all over the country do so. Then there’s the Easter Egg hunt on the White House lawn, and these same spectacles take place all over this nation. Confidentially, even though we celebrate this Christian symbolism, Christmas trees and Easter Eggs are pagan symbols, but don’t tell the Paper and Cardboard Christians…. Is it by our active participation in Christian-State Rituals or our passive silence in the face of them that allows us to allow our State to demonize others that aren’t Christian?
After he became Senator from Illinois, he voted for every war funding bill and Candidate Obama was very clear about his foreign policy: Agonizingly slow withdrawal from Iraq, more troops to Afghanistan, 92,000 more soldiers for the military, no option “off the table” for dealing with Iran and continued drone bombings into Pakistan (which killed 33 the day I am writing this). McCain’s foreign policy would have been super-similar to Obama’s and that’s why I say the Robber Class always wins. No matter who is president, the Robbers in defense-related industries will prosper (along with the Banksters, but more about that next chapter).