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Le cancer américain

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Le Cancer américain

>“America is a cancer. It is, alas, not only across the Atlantic, but here, on our soil,
in our cities, and even our universities, that we must get to know the deep nature of the
peril threatening us,” impossible to isolate, and thus to amputate, “since America has
spread everywhere.”

>The U.S.A. Aron and Dandieu are critiquing is “not a people, still less a land”, but a method, which happens to have “grafted itself onto a whole human group, like a disease”: that of “reason reduced to its technical role,” “allowing our rationalist civilisation to find in the colonies … a kind of tabula rasa to erect its inhuman constructs”, without the reality checks of an older culture to provide any balance.
>“The current crisis is not just a social, national or economic crisis,” Aron-Dandieu maintain: “it is a crisis of conscience, and thus universal.” The American spirit is a misdirection of true spirit, a “hegemony of rational mechanisms over concrete and emotional realities, the deep wellsprings of genuine human progress” that are clogged by the “supremacy of industry and banking over the era’s entire life.”

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