The old white man

For the evils of this world, the current debate primarily identifies one culprit: the old white man. He stands for colonialism, racism, and sexism, and is held responsible for global poverty, environmental destruction, and of course, climate change. But how did he become the scapegoat, and what lies behind this collective attribution of guilt? Norbert Bolz analyzes the term and shows that the old white man has become the central symbolic figure in a cultural civil war. "Old" represents tradition and experience, "white" represents European rationality and technological control over nature, and "male" represents courage, risk, and self-assertion. It becomes clear that in this increasingly ruthless conflict, it is not about those being reviled, but about the foundations of the Western world.

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