Very pleased that Pankaj Mishra has responded to Martin Amis's appallingly snooty assault on Islam in the Observer this week. Read it all the way through, but I want to quote this paragraph, because it ties in with something I've been noting about the 'dark play' of American empire in the post below:
We have no choice but to find new forms of co-existence in an interdependent and highly politicised world, where it is no longer possible to enjoy the imperial luxury of remaking reality, and in which the many enemies created - and united - by these blundering attempts can also unleash devastating forms of violence.
The 'imperial luxury of remaking reality' is exactly what I've been referring to, well put.
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