- 28 Apr 2016 04:29
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I'm reading an anthology of 80s Russian literature, First Love by: Turgenev, and Captains Courageous by: Kipling.
Wandering the information superhighway, he came upon the last refuge of civilization, PoFo, the only forum on the internet ...
In the wake of the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris on 7 January 2015, millions took to the streets to demonstrate their revulsion, expressing a desire to reaffirm the ideals of the French Republic: liberté, égalité, fraternité. But who were the millions of demonstrators who were suddenly united under the single cry of ‘Je suis Charlie’?
In this probing new book, Emmanuel Todd investigates the cartography and sociology of the three to four million who marched in Paris and across France and draws some unsettling conclusions. For while they claimed to support liberal, republican values, the real middle classes who marched on that day of indignant protest also had a quite different programme in mind, one that was far removed from their proclaimed ideal. Their deep values were in fact more reminiscent of the most depressing aspects of France’s national history: conservatism, selfishness, domination and inequality.
By identifying the anthropological, religious, economic and political forces that brought France to the edge of the abyss, Todd reveals the real dangers posed to all western societies when the interests of privileged middle classes work against marginalised and immigrant groups. Should we really continue to mistreat young people, force the children of immigrants to live on the outskirts of our cities, consign the poorer classes to the remoter parts of the country, demonise Islam, and allow the growth of an ever more menacing anti-Semitism? While asking uncomfortable questions and offering no easy solutions, Todd points to the difficult and uncertain path that might lead to an accommodation with Islam rather than a deepening and divisive confrontation.
http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9781509505777
anasawad wrote:World Order by Henry Kissinger.
anasawad wrote:Can you give link to the memories of Ariel Sharon >? Or is it hard copy ?
Sphinx wrote:I started reading the memoirs of Ariel Sharon.
skinster wrote:Ugh.
Paradigm wrote:The Reign of Quantity by René Guénon
Violence and the Sacred by René Girard
Still working on Aristotle's Metaphysics
Sphinx wrote:Started reading "Theory of Population" by Thomas Malthus.
It is a classic. I would like to see if it says anything other than the expected humanity-is-doomed thing.
Dagoth Ur wrote:It is a worthless piece of hyperbolic hysteria is what it is. Malthus was an idiot.
anasawad wrote:Parenting for dummies
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