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Unlocked: Myth of the Month 8: "The West"

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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The West Is Just This Kind of Phantom or Mirage

If you're concerned about the fate of western society, then look first to your own local world. You can't conceive of what it is to be european if you don't have some sense of what it means to be dutch or portuguese or scottish. The concept of european is just not useful. And likewise with the idea of western. If we're going to talk about a bigger, much more abstract, much more diffuse, much more ambiguous entity like the west, it's really not going to mean anything. It's not going to provide that sense of situated ness in the world,. That sense of purpose, or identity, to use the big

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