ext_137954 ([identity profile] dervishspin.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] jducoeur 2008-11-21 11:54 am (UTC)

There is a book by Derek Jensen called The Culture of Make Believe.

It is along a similar line, tracing the history of hatred, but not limited to hatred of Judaism; our cultural insistence of hatred of the Other. The deeply ingrained hatred of a set of people is not unique to Judaism, but it does seem to be unique to our Western Culture. We are cultural amnesiacs in this regard, especially in the US, with living victims of the Holocaust still among us.

This book questions the validity of civilization itself. It's brilliant. I don't think I can bring myself to read it more than once though.

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