Susan Sontag I (1969)

[Latimer]

"The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx and Balanchine ballets don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history; it is the white race and it alone –its ideologies and inventions –which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself. What the Mongol hordes threaten is far less frightening than the damage that Western “Faustian” man, with his idealism, his magnificent art, his sense of intellectual adventure, his world-devouring energies for conquest, has already done, and further threatens to do.”​

 

[NotHardUp1]

It is another example of effete social theory that is the domain of rarefied Western urbanite culture.

Nature wouldn't allow such unsustainable radicalism to survive in the wild. It would be self-extinguishing, hence we don't see this in the "free market" of the world of ideas, only in the artificial environment of intellectual zoos.

Doubtless this sort of self-hating rhetoric is instantly decried by the thought police.

No?

 

[belamyi]

"The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx and Balanchine ballets don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history; it is the white race and it alone –its ideologies and inventions –which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself. What the Mongol hordes threaten is far less frightening than the damage that Western “Faustian” man, with his idealism, his magnificent art, his sense of intellectual adventure, his world-devouring energies for conquest, has already done, and further threatens to do.”​

"The white race" is an invention produced by a certain group belonging to one or a couple of ethnicities, that has been bought and swallowed even by its supposed opposers, stepped in the same mental religious righteousness than the oppressive religion they likewise purport to oppose: "don't redeem".

 

[Essex Boy]

The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx and Balanchine ballets don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world.

She could have added collections of essays by well-read New York sophisticates to the list. Haters gonna hate. The chattering classes gonna chatter.