[lit-ideas] Re: 21. century European anti-Semitism
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 06:40:40 -0700 (PDT)
I was using the term 'community,' as it was used
previously in this thread, in the sense of a group
that defines itself in terms of mutual loyalty as well
as difference / separation from the outsiders.
Residents of an elite suburb might so define
themselves privately to some extent, but we haven't
heard of an initiative to proclaim Lewittown
independence. Rather, Lewittown is presented as a
materialization of the American Dream itself:
http://tigger.uic.edu/~pbhales/Levittown.html
Wondering why Lewittown does not face the need for
collective self-defense is a bit like wondering why
the US Senate does not.
O.K.
--- Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am not sure what the examples purport to show.
> Suburbs are hardly communities in any meaningful
> sense, at least in modern Western societies. (The
> Sadr
> City near Baghdad is more so, and it faces the issue
> of defense.) The first-century Christians were only
> a
> community in the making, and lacked any mechanisms
> for
> organized self-defense, which doesn't mean that they
> had no need for it.
>
> O.K.
>
>
> --- "Steven G. Cameron" <stevecam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > John McCreery wrote:
> >
> > > On 2004/04/19, at 15:33, Omar Kusturica wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>Yes, newly formed communities do tend to have
> more
> > at
> > >>stake at self-defense.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Consider, for example, Levittown or Park Forest
> > (though, arguably,
> > > suburbs do not count as communities)....
> >
> > **Or first century Christians...
> >
> > TC,
> >
> > /Steve Cameron, NJ
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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