This way of speaking about the other is the norm outside of WEIRD (Western Educated Industrialized Rich Democractic) countries and those that bear their influence.
It's why those who have experience of those places find WEIRD self-flagellation on race so hard to fathom.
It's why those who have experience of those places find WEIRD self-flagellation on race so hard to fathom.
https://twitter.com/DrugGovoruna/status/1407697263376228353
Now the anti-colonial critique would be that "well, now that they became wealthy atop exploitation of the rest of the world, they get to be moral"; similar to "now that they are wealthy through industrial pollution, they get to be environmentalists", which is in a real sense true
And then it comes down to whether the actual source of Western wealth and hegemony is domination and exploitation or the creation and scaling up of non-zero economies and societies.
The actual study of history provides the answer.
The actual study of history provides the answer.
The answer is: the breakthrough to scalable non-zero sum dynamics is what is distinctive and novel about those societies, domination and exploitation, which played a role in getting there, is the familiar old dynamic that was never sufficient to get us where we are today
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