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Staff Picks: Myth of Whitness and Western Civilization / Ben Ehrenreich

Staff Picks: Myth of Whitness and Western Civilization / Ben Ehrenreich

Producer Sebastian muses on origin and utility of…

This Is Hell!

May 19, 20221h 17m

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Show Notes

Producer Sebastian muses on origin and utility of racial categories and introduces a 2019 interview with writer Ben Ehrenreich explains how Enlightenment-era ideas of progress and Western civilization collapsed time and space around the bumbling, destructive European ideology of early capitalism, and why those ideas still mis-guide the bumbling, destructive European ideology of late capitalism on a dying planet. https://thebaffler.com/salvos/after-the-storm-ehrenreich