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“Racial Identity in Europe” with Thomas Chatterton Williams
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps
Exploring the Spectrum of Societal Detachment
Exploring how detachment from society can lead to behaviors like littering and extremism, highlighting the significance of fostering a sense of ownership and connection within communities.
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Speaker 2
back to the question of buy-in, of like buy-in to the society, buy-in to the host society feeling? I mean, it may be a stretch because maybe one will say that, you know, anyone who's attempted to become a jihadist is mentally unstable or something. But I mean, they are the tip of an iceberg of dissatisfaction or, you know, there have to be underlying reasons why people do things in addition to Islamist ideology. We were talking earlier before the tape was rolling about littering and my bafflement walking through New York and seeing people like Eda Hamburger and just drop
Speaker 1
the wrapper on the
Speaker 2
ground, which is not something that happens in Australia. And you said that's about not having buy-in to the society.
Speaker 1
Yeah, not feeling like you have ownership
Speaker 2
in the society or that it's... Would I be totally crazy to see jihadism and dropping a wrapper on the street as like opposite ends of the same basic spectrum of detachment from...
Speaker 1
No, I don't think that's a crazy spectrum to draw. I think that jihadism would be the superlative of whatever that small rebellion is of just disrespecting the local environment by seeing no reason to invest in upkeep of it. It's probably coming from a similar impulse to
Speaker 2
he's a great authority on this.
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