"The politics of identity is a postmodern twist on the liberal religion
of humanity. The Supreme Being has become an unknown God – a species of
human being nowhere encountered in history, which does not need to
define itself through family or community, nationality or any religion.
Parallels with the new humanity envisioned by the Bolsheviks are
obvious."
Thus an interesting article in the Times Literary Review by John Gray. If freedom from traditions go hand in hand by selective deconstruction of identity (exclusively exercised on traditional values, not on minorities), the result is the tyranny of bland conformity, because every individual is different and in the same time, somehow similar. How the human mind creates the very result it set out to overcome:
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