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Quotes About Occidentalism

The most recent phase of the alternation between Occidentalism and primitivism has therefore concealed the essential thing, the universality of violence. A selective blindness in one of two forms has obscured the fact that all cultures, and all individuals without exception, participate in violence; that violence is what structures our collective sense of belonging and our personal identities.
~ Rene Girard
In short, the neoconservative Jewish intelligentsia transformed universalism into Occidentalism.
~ Enzo Traverso