We live in a mass society where people have been shorn of their connections to each other and to the past, even to themselves in favour of absolute personal autonomy. What is friend in this context?
It would be interesting to get your take on Bruce Gibney’s “A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America” through the prism of Schmittian friend-enemy distinction.
There are many explanations about how one generation managed not only to squander the greatest wealth assembled by previous generations, but also to sell their kids and grandkids down the river.
It would be interesting to get your take on Bruce Gibney’s “A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America” through the prism of Schmittian friend-enemy distinction.
There are many explanations about how one generation managed not only to squander the greatest wealth assembled by previous generations, but also to sell their kids and grandkids down the river.
I am going to have look that one up.