Was he right?

[Anonymous No.17633712]

>Qutb added that:

>‘America has forgotten one thing: one thing has no value here – the spirit (روح). Here, a PhD student submits a thesis on the best method for washing the dishes.This is more important than a thesis on the Bible, if not more important than the Bible itself....America is good as a workshop for the world . . .but, certainly, it will be a disaster for humanity if the world became America.’

>Qutb emphasized that America has a fascinating civilization, but that ‘absolute pleasure that is free from any form of restriction or customs’ tends to forget to balance material and spiritual needs. The balance that distinguishes humanity from other beings, as Qutb noted, could not be achieved because the Americans were ‘exhausted’. Speaking generally, Americans did not ‘have a balance as regards either their own assets, or their Greek and Roman intellectual heritage.’

On jazz
>The American is primitive in his artistic tastes, whether in his judgment of art or his own artistic works. Jazz music is his music of choice. It is this music that the savage bushmen created to satisfy their primitive desires, and their desire for noise on the one hand, and the abundance of animal noises on the other. The American’s enjoyment of jazz does not fully begin until he couples it with singing like crude screaming. And the louder the noise of the voices and instruments, until it rings in the ears to an unbearable degree, the greater the appreciation of the listeners. The voices of appreciation are raised, and palms are raised in continuous clapping that could deafen ears.

[Anonymous No.17633717]

[Anonymous No.17633842]

>>17633712
Which book is this from op

[Anonymous No.17633926]

>>17633712
>was he right?
In what way was he even remotely wrong? Lol

[Anonymous No.17634342]

He was right except about Jazz.
>>17633842
The America I Have Seen

[Anonymous No.17634884]

>>17633926
>In what way was he even remotely wrong?
Being muslim, to begin with

[Anonymous No.17635510]

Interesting how every foreigner visiting America criticizes their materialism, you can see something similar in some letters Dickens wrote. Funny because the protestants who decided to settle there were extremely frugal.