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A review by izcanbeguscott
Indefensible: Democracy, Counterrevolution, and the Rhetoric of Anti-Imperialism by Rohini Hensman
challenging
dark
hopeful
informative
medium-paced
4.0
If this book was fiction, it would be called trauma porn. It is filled to the brim with abject human misery and the most despicable actions human beings can do to one another - and that is why it works.
Hensmen kicks down the door on the ideas of what she calls "pseudo-anti-imperialists", a more academic term for what terminally online people would call "annoying tankies on twitter." She exposes how brutally simplistic and callous a view accepting the words at face value of those who consider the West their "enemy" truly is; these are all powerful people looking to assert their dominance on others, they will always be self interested and preservationist in the end. She basically does to them what an owner would do to a bad dog who knocked over a vase - put their face right in it and say "look at it."
Her recommendations for a better international global system are certainly correct and well backed, but they are boring. They are the investing in mutual funds of global affairs - accurate, but not something I couldn't have gotten from a ton of other sources.
Hensmen kicks down the door on the ideas of what she calls "pseudo-anti-imperialists", a more academic term for what terminally online people would call "annoying tankies on twitter." She exposes how brutally simplistic and callous a view accepting the words at face value of those who consider the West their "enemy" truly is; these are all powerful people looking to assert their dominance on others, they will always be self interested and preservationist in the end. She basically does to them what an owner would do to a bad dog who knocked over a vase - put their face right in it and say "look at it."
Her recommendations for a better international global system are certainly correct and well backed, but they are boring. They are the investing in mutual funds of global affairs - accurate, but not something I couldn't have gotten from a ton of other sources.