one way to understand the moment’s grand conflict is between apartheid and inclusion as the structuring ideal of the state. 1/

is the best state like UAE, an Elysium maintained and served by a subordinate underclass without full rights? 2/

or is it one in which all residents of the territory have full rights, and the capacity in practice to participate in political and social affairs on broadly equal terms? 3/

i suppose the conflict is hardly new to just this moment. perhaps it feels new because until recently (by which i mean say 2008) the side i preferred seemed clearly to be winning. /fin