The Politics of Non-Belonging

"I think these gotcha things are like times where you get to play the super, you get to exert the super egoic pressure on the other position," he says. "It turns the political struggle into a moral one and then there's no one winning." The World Cup is just such a good example of how cultural differences don't have to be surmounted by exporting values or whatever,. He adds that calling Qatar backward really means in that state you are disavowing exactly what happened at that nightclub.