Reading Response - Essay Example

Autoimmunity as a Global Immunization Dissecting Derrida’s views in his interview with Giovanna Borradori was like entering a warzone and desperately seeking a way out. The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were transcended to be interpreted in a more global perspective. Derrida’s political leanings reflected his desire for Europe to be a stateless society in order to have freedom may have been an unexpected response to a topic that usually calls for analysis of American and Middle-eastern conflict.

The September 11 attacks were a result of autoimmune crises, or, the response of a country against its own components due to terrors brought about conflicts with other nations. USA was unaware that within its soils, there were actions being done by the terrorists to work against it in a major event. Derrida, as a philosopher, still believes in the power of great thinkers coming together to deconstruct the state and achieve reforms. His strategy is the use of intellectual and political pressures coming from international groups of intellects who will persuade powers that be to promote peace instead of war.

His idealism can be infuriating, not to mention, arrogant, to believe that intellectuals like himself can solve the global crises from their ivory towers! How elitist! Still, his passion for freedom is commendable. It seems he has thoroughly thought this through, as he was eloquent in his rambling against the national state system and the people’s discontent with it. Autoimmunity is not a solution but a symptom to a greater problem. He is right in thinking unity amongst people should prevail, but not only the intellectual class but the working class as well, as they are the majority stakeholders in the fight for a world free from intimidation, terrorism and war.