The End of Two Illusions by Hamid Dabashi

Author:Hamid Dabashi [Dabashi, Hamid]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780520976320
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2022-04-18T18:30:00+00:00

America stands before the world as an impetuous void, a fatality without substance. Nothing prepared her for hegemony; yet she tends toward it, not without a certain hesitation. Unlike the other nations which have had to pass through a whole series of humiliations and defeats, she has known till now only the sterility of an uninterrupted good fortune. If, in the future, everything should continue to go as well, her appearance on the scene will have been an accident without influence. Those who preside over her destiny, those who take her interest to heart, should prepare her for bad times; in order to escape being a superficial monster, she requires an ordeal of major scope. Perhaps she is not far from one now. Having lived, hitherto, outside hell, she is preparing to descend into it. If she seeks a destiny for herself, she will find it only on the ruins of all that was her raison d’être.19

As I write these words late in April 2020 in self-quarantine in New York, I wonder if the coronavirus pandemic of 2020 is the first sign of that descent.

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