Sandinistas
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| - | "Over the years, I had absorbed a notion of [[liberalism]] that was passive, defeatist, guilt-ridden. Feelings of guilt governed my worldview: [[post-colonial]] guilt, [[Western guilt (concept)|white guilt]], middle-class guilt, British guilt. But if I was guilty, [[9/11]] shattered my innocence ... For while I realized almost straightaway that 9/11 would change the world, it would be several years before I accepted that it had also changed me." --''[[The Fall-Out]]'' (2007), Andrew Anthony | + | |
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| - | '''''The Fall-Out: How a Guilty Liberal Lost His Innocence''''' is a book by [[Andrew Anthony]]. It was published in 2007 by [[Vintage Books]]. | + | |
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| - | Anthony writes: "Over the years, I had absorbed a notion of liberalism that was passive, defeatist, guilt-ridden. Feelings of guilt governed my world view: [[Western guilt (concept)|postcolonial guilt]], [[white guilt]], middle-class guilt, British guilt. But if I was guilty, 9/11 shattered my innocence... For while I realized almost straight away that 9/11 would change the world, it would be several more years before I accepted that it had also changed me." | + | |
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| - | In this memoir, he recounts such episodes as a youthful excursion to [[Nicaragua]] to help the [[Sandinistas]], leading reviewer [[Anthony Cape]] to call this the best first-hand description of "the way comprehensive education and the right-on educational philosophies of 1970s schoolteachers let a bright boy from a poor background down," that he had ever read. | + | |
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