onlooker wrote: Patriarchy, Class struggle, Racism and warfare have been pretty universal. The difference as was alluded to is one of scale. More people means more incidence of these behaviors.
...research from the Walk Free Foundation based on its Global Slavery Index 2016 estimated that there were about 70 million slaves around the world in 2016, with 58% of them living in the top five countries—India, Pakistan, China, Bangladesh, and Uzbekistan...
dohboi wrote:I love you, too, cog!
If all critique of Western and US culture are off the table, we are not likely to get very far in figuring out how we got to this point in the current Great Mass Extinction Event.
But some people perhaps are more interested in preserving their pre-conceptions than in searching for important truths...?
dohboi wrote: people engulfed it a rah-rah pro-Western ideology are going to see all Western negatives as exceptions and all non-Western negatives as norms.
dohboi wrote:.... Jeffrey Dahmer .....
Cog wrote:Pick your flavor of doom. Societal, environmental, climate change, or peak oil doom. At the end of each of those will be a socialist white knight wanting to divert money from one pocket to another. They literally can't just state the science, without the ever present desire to social engineer a solution.
Its transparent to me that the science takes a back seat to their real purpose. Which has been to destroy capitalism as the supreme cause of all evil in the world.
Cog wrote:Pick your flavor of doom. Societal, environmental, climate change, or peak oil doom. At the end of each of those will be a socialist white knight wanting to divert money from one pocket to another. They literally can't just state the science, without the ever present desire to social engineer a solution.
Its transparent to me that the science takes a back seat to their real purpose. Which has been to destroy capitalism as the supreme cause of all evil in the world.
Cog wrote:Some people just hate the Western civilization and Americans in particular. As if there were any other cultures around the world superior to it. Perhaps its self-hate or guilt. Or they were just dropped on their heads as infants. The possibilities are endless with this group. A whole lot of virtue signaling for sure.
KaiserJeep wrote:But all the favorite Doom scenarios seem pretty tame compared to the biggies above. Economic conniptions, forced major lifestyle changes, famines, pandemics, wars, overpopulation, etc. - even the favorite Doom of all around here, Climate Change - seem pretty small and lame compared to the things that have already happened, that the human race or it's predecessor species survived.
KaiserJeep wrote:I believe the answer is obvious, we are an intelligent species, master of technology, and thus resilient.
Cog wrote:Some people just hate the Western civilization and Americans in particular.
Ibon wrote:Cog wrote:Some people just hate the Western civilization and Americans in particular.
It used to be the case maybe, to single out Americans. Not anymore. Almost the entire planet has followed the lead of shallow consumption.
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