Middle East Eye: The West Is collapsing under its own lies | Yanis Varoufakis

“A mixture of stupidity and nastiness… The liberal establishment is primarily responsible for the genocide of the Palestinians.” 

In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, Yanis Varoufakis unleashes a fierce critique of Western liberalism, and tells us why he feels that the global system is in crisis.

This episode explores the facade of Western moral superiority, the role of empire past and present, how liberal hypocrisy has given rise to fascism, the climate crisis, Gaza and why Varoufakis places his hope in the Global South.

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Thanks to Gaza, European philosophy has been exposed as ethically bankrupt • From Heidegger's Nazism to Habermas's Zionism, the suffering of the 'Other' is of little consequence.

Imagine if Iran, Syria, Lebanon, or Turkey - fully backed, armed and diplomatically protected by Russia and China - had the will and the wherewithal to bomb Tel Aviv for three months, day and night, murder tens of thousands of Israelis, maim countless more and make millions homeless, and turn the city into a heap of uninhabitable rubble, like Gaza today.

Just imagine it for a few seconds: Iran and its allies deliberately targeting populated parts of Tel Aviv, hospitals, synagogues, schools, universities, libraries - or indeed any populated place - to ensure maximum civilian casualties. They would tell the world they were just looking for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his war cabinet.  

Ask yourself what the US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and Germany in particular would do within 24 hours of the onslaught of this fictional scenario. 

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The world has been awoken from the false slumber of European ethno-philosophy. Today, we owe this liberation to the global suffering of…Palestinians, whose…heroism & sacrifices have finally dismantled the barefaced barbarity…of “western civilisation”.https://t.co/3o8ob3PToi

— Jairo I Fúnez-Flores (@Jairo_I_Funez) January 18, 2024

 

Total Depravity and Moral Collapse...

I remember 1967. At 13, I naively believed the very explicit promises that Israel would quickly withdraw from all the occupied territories very soon. That was the end game. A lifetime has passed since then.

— Andrew Kadel @DrewKadel@social.coop (@FrKadel) January 18, 2024