After a long season of turmoil and confinement, the rhetoric of diversity and inclusion seemed ineffectual. But one thing is indisputable: In the vacuum of lockdown, blood cried out from the ground.
Aruna khilanani born professional#
We can speculate why protests spread so quickly-systemic racism, endemic violence in poor black communities, networks of professional agitators. We can argue endlessly about what killed George Floyd-drugs in his bloodstream, vicious police tactics, a criminal justice system that targets blacks. The result was an explosion of protests across the United States that often descended into violence and looting. In June 2020, amid the existential void of the universal lockdown, police in Minneapolis arrested an agitated, unruly black man named George Floyd, who died under restraint. Nature abhors a vacuum-especially human nature, which is sociable and restless. Politicians responded by throwing entire countries into lockdown, an unprecedented measure that put society in a state of suspended animation for months. Fear of death and disease rippled through the population, especially among influential, university-educated people, who in the West are especially anxious about their health and safety. Panic struck in March 2020 as a virus originating in China spread around the world. Ī few months after Return of the Strong Gods was published, the strong gods returned.
This essay is adapted from the preface to the forthcoming paperback edition of Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism, Populism, and the Future of the West.
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