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In the not-so-distant past political conflict within Western countries centred on the opposition between capitalist-liberal and socialist-egalitarian sentiments. This has now given way to the opposition between ‘progress’ and ‘reaction’, mostly defined at a cultural level. The homogenization process of the universal homogeneous state means that society is defined as an indiscriminate aggregate of individuals stripped of any other cultural identity: ethnicity, nation, tradition and religion – this at the same time that ever-increasing rhetoric is dedicated to the sacrosanctity of ‘culture’ and ‘beliefs’ . All individuals, it is assumed, are capable of taking their place in the economy as workers, consumers, tax-payers and benefit-recipients, and with cultural identity, including most crucially religious identity, relegated to secondary status, social harmony will be guaranteed by ‘tolerance’. This is contemporary liberalism. The assumption is that the social and cultural identity of the universal homogeneous state is nothing in particular: this absence of identity is called ‘multi-culturalism’, a euphemism for the cultural vacuum that is liberalism. Of the course the liberal champions of the universal homogeneous state do not feel ashamed; on the contrary they are proud of the emptiness of their ‘ideal’ and are zealous for this emptiness.

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Yeah but don't be too hard on Dawkins, he just got addicted to being a counter cultural edgelord. Unfortunately for him he's watching his country devolve into a moral relativistic shithole where getting upset at systemic child molestation makes you a racist, but I can't say I feel any sympathy for him