John Gray, in his latest book The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths, quotes the German journalist Sebastian Haffner's account of society in Germany being comraded into happiness. A sort of environment where the not so active hater of the other still partakes in the happiness generated in the haters' non-hating activity. This must be true; for another author, Romesh Gunasekera, in a completely different context describes a happiness and preoccupation quite similar. And, with a war that's impending.
One is tempted to draw parallel to the Hindu right wing echo chamber of relatively strange people on Twitter who seem to enjoy othering Muslims.
One is tempted to draw parallel to the Hindu right wing echo chamber of relatively strange people on Twitter who seem to enjoy othering Muslims.
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