10/19/13
‘What Do America’s College Students Want? They Want to Be Oppressed’
The psychological woes of the “The Wannabe Oppressed” are analyzed by Stanley Kurtz at NRO:
‘What Do America’s College Students Want? They Want to Be Oppressed’
The psychological woes of the “The Wannabe Oppressed” are analyzed by Stanley Kurtz at NRO:
In his important new book, The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse: Save the Earth, Punish Human Beings, French intellectual gadfly Pascal Bruckner does the most thorough job yet of explaining the climate movement as a secular religion, an odd combination of deformed Christianity and reconstructed Marxism. (You can find Bruckner’s excellent article based on the book here.) Bruckner describes a historical process wherein “the long list of emblematic victims — Jews, blacks, slaves, proletarians, colonized peoples — was replaced, little by little, with the Planet.” The planet, says Bruckner, “has become the new proletariat that must be saved from exploitation.”
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