Rethinking the Predicaments of Contemporary American Politics and Culture
The results of the 2024 U.S.presidential election make it necessary for us to rethink the deep logic of contemporary American politics and culture.American society today faces dramatic ethnic conflicts,the return of white supremacy,and the rise of the"alt-right."From the dual perspectives and theoretical re-sources of psychoanalysis and political philosophy,we can locate the political and cultural dilemma of contem-porary America in terms of the mechanism of"civilization and its discontents".The"politically correct"politi-cians in the political circles and the"cultural left"in the intellectual circles have created a large number of"discontents with civilization",and when such discontents cannot be resolved vertically but can only spread horizontally,society will quickly fall to the verge disintegration.The mechanism of"civilization and its discon-tents"makes human civilization structurally unable to reach the ultimate"ideal society",and how to deal with the"discontents with civilization"generated from this structural gap determines the stability of a society.
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