Post by jabinkhatun908 on Feb 25, 2024 5:40:35 GMT
Two Reasons May Explain This Difference. On the One Hand Applebaum Assimilates These Turns Toward Ethnonationalism in Central and Eastern Europe to Other Illiberal Turns by Acquaintances of His From the S and Early S. Some of Them Were Prominent Former Dissidents From Central and Eastern Europe but Many Came From From the Conservative Tory Circles of London Simon Heffer Roger Scruton or the Neoconservative Circles of New York Laura Ingraham or Madrid Rafael Bardaj. If the Same Thing Can Happen in Terms of Ideological Devolution to Western Intellectuals and Politicians as to Their Eastern European Counterparts Then Surely Krastev and Holmess Postcolonial Explanation Can Only Have Limited Validity.
The Second Reason Why Applebaum Does Not She Defended a Position Opposite to His During the First Years of the Postcommunist Transition. As Part of the Idealist Wing of the Neoconservatives She Identified the Unipolar Moment With the Global Diffusion of Human Germany Mobile Number List Rights and Democracy. However Since She Sees the Us as the Direct Embodiment of Those Universalist Values She Finds Krastevs Analogy Between the Post Westernization of Central and Eastern Europe and Cultural Colonization Unconvincing. That Comparison Would Only Be Appropriate if the West Were Just One Particular Culture or Civilization Among Others and Not an Embodiment of Universal Values.
The Reason Why Applebaum Does Not Feel Like a Cultural Imperialist Becomes Clear if We Remember an Idea Shared by Many European Observers and Forcefully Expressed by Gk Chesterton for Its Most Loyal Citizens the United States is Not a Nation but a Religion. It is Not a Specific Territorial State That Projects Its Power Outside Its Borders a Great Power but a Church That Spreads Its Universal Creed. Its Cultural Hegemony Therefore Does Not Arise Through Colonization but Through Proselytism the Acceptance of the Creed Its Norms and the Corresponding Way of Life Directly Transforms the Proselyte Into a Universal Man Into an Imago Dei Not Into Someone Assimilated Into the Culture of Another Particular Nation. In His Review of Applebaums Book Krastev Claims That She Doesnt Really Take Into Account How Much Her Former Central and Eastern European Friends Who Underwent a Nationalconservative Turn Resent People Like Her.
The Second Reason Why Applebaum Does Not She Defended a Position Opposite to His During the First Years of the Postcommunist Transition. As Part of the Idealist Wing of the Neoconservatives She Identified the Unipolar Moment With the Global Diffusion of Human Germany Mobile Number List Rights and Democracy. However Since She Sees the Us as the Direct Embodiment of Those Universalist Values She Finds Krastevs Analogy Between the Post Westernization of Central and Eastern Europe and Cultural Colonization Unconvincing. That Comparison Would Only Be Appropriate if the West Were Just One Particular Culture or Civilization Among Others and Not an Embodiment of Universal Values.
The Reason Why Applebaum Does Not Feel Like a Cultural Imperialist Becomes Clear if We Remember an Idea Shared by Many European Observers and Forcefully Expressed by Gk Chesterton for Its Most Loyal Citizens the United States is Not a Nation but a Religion. It is Not a Specific Territorial State That Projects Its Power Outside Its Borders a Great Power but a Church That Spreads Its Universal Creed. Its Cultural Hegemony Therefore Does Not Arise Through Colonization but Through Proselytism the Acceptance of the Creed Its Norms and the Corresponding Way of Life Directly Transforms the Proselyte Into a Universal Man Into an Imago Dei Not Into Someone Assimilated Into the Culture of Another Particular Nation. In His Review of Applebaums Book Krastev Claims That She Doesnt Really Take Into Account How Much Her Former Central and Eastern European Friends Who Underwent a Nationalconservative Turn Resent People Like Her.