Western peace was bought by exporting violence to an outside that is Western essence

Evidence

At the same time as we enjoy Joey’s hyper-violent killing of the gangsters, we know that it is impossible for us to position them as the Outside and Stall/Joey as the Inside, and the film reinforces the lesson that Žižek thought we should have learned in the aftermath of 9/11: … Whenever we encounter such a purely evil Outside, we should gather the courage to endorse the Hegelian lesson: in this pure Outside, we should recognise the distilled version of our own essence. For the last five centuries, the (relative) prosperity and peace of the “civilised” West was bought by the export of ruthless violence and destruction into the “barbarian” Outside: the long story from the conquest of America to the slaughter in Congo. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 454

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to Fisher’s chapter 12-14 interest in violence mirroring ruling-class predation, and to Ripley’s predation logic. — connects to: Western dominance rested on organized violence, not superior ideas; The West conquered the world through superior organized violence, not ideas — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 140; European secularism secured domestic peace by displacing religious violence onto the colonized world. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 369

Broader Connections

• European secularism secured domestic peace by displacing religious violence onto the colonized world. #exemplifies (0.90) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 369
• Western dominance rested on organized violence, not superior ideas #expands (0.80)
• The West conquered the world through superior organized violence, not ideas #expands (0.75) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 140