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laodan rated 18 months ago- Identity and migration via 3QD, in Prospect by Francis Fukuyama.
Modern liberal societies have weak collective identities. Postmodern elites, especially in Europe, feel that they have evolved beyond identities defined by religion and nation. But if our societies cannot assert positive liberal values, they may be challenged by migrants who are more sure of who they are. Identity and migration
Speaking of identity in the context of immigration undoubtedly reinforces the idea but it also charges it ideologically which in the end risks devaluing the concept itself in the eyes of those who think that positing immigration as a risk is not acceptable. It's a fact that the individuals in modern societies do not share any longer a common worldview. In that sense Western societies are helpless, or at least weak, in their encounter with groups or societies that are closely knitted behind a common worldview. But we should remember that in most of those encounters Western capitalism ends up destroying the traditions of the other. I believe that the only real challenge laying ahead for Western modernity will come from those South countries that succeed to integrate the logic of capital while keeping their populations firmly glued behind their ancestral worldview. China and India come immediately to mind... The centrally most vexing question here is that the Western abandonment, along modernity of the principle of a shared worldview by all in their society, is so badly understood and so dramatically absent from the preoccupations of Western intellectuals. Many of the great contemporary unresolved questions have their answer laying in our understanding of this question...
- Identity and migration via 3QD, in Prospect by Francis Fukuyama.
- edelwater rated 18 months ago
- interesting piece of writing by Francis Fukuyama
