THOUGHTLEADER: The practice of individualism, as opposed to an understanding that there is a connective tissue which binds a society together, has been exposed by Covid-19.
, a draft document scripted in 1967, 23 years after the dropping of the atomic bomb by the United States on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, he writes: “The human consciousness asks these questions … What exactly is this all about … has it always been so, and, if not, when and how did such a state of affairs take place?” So, today we ask, how did this current state of affairs come to pass?
And in this, the current pandemic acts relentlessly; illuminating the racial fissures of societies such as the US, where black people die not because of what is euphemistically termed “underlying conditions”, but on account of what such a phrase obscures — namely, the causal, structural factors that create these conditions.
in which he argued that liberty was about forms of government and the ability of one to possess property. But who could possess property at that time? Did this not mean that whiteness and masculinity became the figures in which rights were reposed? The point here is not simply a historical one. Rather, it is to show how some of the central political concepts of the West were formed as narrow and exclusive, and that liberalism is not a universal political doctrine of equality, but was created as part of what Charles Mills calls the “racial contract”. , did not include women, nor did it account for the slaves in the French colonies. In 1791, the butcher’s daughter,. She was guillotined in 1793 as an “unnatural woman”.
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