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A review by lpm100
The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto by Daniel Boyarin
Did not finish book. Stopped at 8%.
Book review
The No-state Solution
0/5 stars
"With prose like this, who needs waterboarding?"
******
Even as short as this book was, I couldn't get more than 15 pages into it.
Books published on University labels tend to be intensely boring, and so I have a little bit more patience with them.
But every man has his limits.
The takeaway message that I get from this book is: Even though they seem to be different, academics and Kollel avreichem really are on opposite sides of the same circle.
Both are excellent examples of what happens when people retreat into a "labyrinth of textuality, such that reality does not exist for them anymore."
What we have here, of all possible things, is an academic that teaches Gemara.
What could possibly go wrong?!?!
In the mind of somebody that studies Gemara for a living, everything is floating abstraction and anything could be true or false.
So, that explains how A Jewish Man could come to the mental state to write a book about a "no-state solution."
Right in the introduction the author starts out with the word "social construction" and he also mentions the postmodern dogma that "there are no biological races." (And it's just a coincidence that all of the lowest HDI countries are all black African and all of the lowest performing people in the United States are black.)
Another way to look at this topic (I'm still not sure what it is, 12 pages in) is that: That which is can be.
If the circumstances make it such that the State of Israel can exist, then one can reverse engineer the answer to "what is Jewishness?" (When circumstances were not right for Israel to be reestablished, then Jews were The Diaspora Nation; Now that the circumstances are fitting, they can be a nation-state. If circumstances change again, then they can go back to being A Diaspora Nation.)
So, what difference do ab initio definitions make?
And what are we supposed to do with sentences like this? ("[Christian supersessionism] as has been shown in various works of post-colonial criticism, deeply informs modern colonial ideologies of Eurocentric progressivism.")
******
Verdict: EMPHATICALLY NOT RECOMMENDED.
$25.63 I spent for this piece of crap.
And the best I can get as a buyback is about $6 - - not even enough to reach the $10 threshold for somebody to cut a PayPal deposit.
Vocabulary:
bruit
The No-state Solution
0/5 stars
"With prose like this, who needs waterboarding?"
******
Even as short as this book was, I couldn't get more than 15 pages into it.
Books published on University labels tend to be intensely boring, and so I have a little bit more patience with them.
But every man has his limits.
The takeaway message that I get from this book is: Even though they seem to be different, academics and Kollel avreichem really are on opposite sides of the same circle.
Both are excellent examples of what happens when people retreat into a "labyrinth of textuality, such that reality does not exist for them anymore."
What we have here, of all possible things, is an academic that teaches Gemara.
What could possibly go wrong?!?!
In the mind of somebody that studies Gemara for a living, everything is floating abstraction and anything could be true or false.
So, that explains how A Jewish Man could come to the mental state to write a book about a "no-state solution."
Right in the introduction the author starts out with the word "social construction" and he also mentions the postmodern dogma that "there are no biological races." (And it's just a coincidence that all of the lowest HDI countries are all black African and all of the lowest performing people in the United States are black.)
Another way to look at this topic (I'm still not sure what it is, 12 pages in) is that: That which is can be.
If the circumstances make it such that the State of Israel can exist, then one can reverse engineer the answer to "what is Jewishness?" (When circumstances were not right for Israel to be reestablished, then Jews were The Diaspora Nation; Now that the circumstances are fitting, they can be a nation-state. If circumstances change again, then they can go back to being A Diaspora Nation.)
So, what difference do ab initio definitions make?
And what are we supposed to do with sentences like this? ("[Christian supersessionism] as has been shown in various works of post-colonial criticism, deeply informs modern colonial ideologies of Eurocentric progressivism.")
******
Verdict: EMPHATICALLY NOT RECOMMENDED.
$25.63 I spent for this piece of crap.
And the best I can get as a buyback is about $6 - - not even enough to reach the $10 threshold for somebody to cut a PayPal deposit.
Vocabulary:
bruit
Content Warnings
BORING AS FUCK