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Seawolf's avatar

From the review of Submission by The Social Pathologist:

"... Islam achieves a victory in France and makes strides into Northern Europe as well. Houellebecq's realises that Islam does not need to conquer by force, all it needs to do is fill the vacuum as the ability to resist it has gone."

But remember the film, No Country for Old Men: it wasn't the scary psychopath antagonist who finally did the protagonist in, it was the professionals at the very end.

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Abram Hess's avatar

It's a curious comparison in this newsletter that we have Knausgaard talking about Western civilization quietly conquering Japanese culture; and then Houellebecq talking about Islam doing the same to Europe.

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Aaron M. Renn's avatar

The United States is also presently overpowering France.

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Abram Hess's avatar

Capitalism effects one kind of cultural expansionism, fecundity another.

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