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In ordinary life, care for children is the deepest moral reflex we have as a society. There is no shortage of things that should horrify us about the West’s indifference to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, but the treatment of Palestinian children stands apart.
#WesternSociety #Palestine #IsraelCrimes
https://www.savageminds.co/p/anatomy-of-a-genocide
Europe and the Reversal of Three Centuries of Exceptionalism
At the time Akbar the great was enthroned in the Mughal empire, Spain was taking over Latin America,…
#Europe #EU #AI #China #Decline #declineoftheWest #dominance #European #GDP #globaldominance #Globaleconomy #History #India #industrialization #middleclass #US #West #Westernsociety #Worldeconomy #worldpowers
https://www.europesays.com/europe/56631/
The Identity Politics of Masculinity as a Colonial Legacy
"The #PreColonial #Indonesian notion of personhood diverges from a western conceptualisation and is expressed instead through #cooperation, #mutuality, #sharing, #caring, and a readiness to #negotiate and #compromise – all of which are characteristics that are associated with feminine qualities and were thus considered inferior according to #Eurocentric understandings of the #subordination of women in #WesternSociety"
by Desi Dwi Prianti
03 Nov 2019
"[In this paper] I argue that a hierarchical structure between masculine and the feminine was introduced by the #Dutch #colonisers – a structure in which they considered themselves to represent the superior, masculine side of the binary, whereas the colonised were seen as their effeminate subjects."
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07256868.2019.1675612#d1e112
Argentina’s Milei Blasts Collectivism at Davos: ‘The West Is in Danger’ - Javier Milei, the president of Argentina, blasted what he perceives to be the adva... - https://news.bitcoin.com/argentinas-milei-blasts-collectivism-at-davos-the-west-is-in-danger/ #wordeconomicforum #westernsociety #collectivism #javiermilei #capitalism #economics #socialism #economy #davos
Nietzsche’s declaration “God is dead (and we have killed him)” is often misunderstood as a way of saying atheism is true; but he more means the entirety of Western civilization rests on values destined for “collapse”. The appropriate response to the death of God should thus be deep disorientation, mourning, and reflection...
https://philosophybreak.com/articles/god-is-dead-nietzsche-famous-statement-explained/
#philosophy #nihilsm #secularization #westernsociety
@Anarkat
There seems to be four forces at play causing the #entropicDecline of #westernSociety, the #ForthTurning
1) FakeWars we are growing weary of now,
2) True #environmentalists who want to end the #growth,
3) FinanceCapital (#financialisation) 'eating it out' by #printingMoney for themselves hoping to #takeTheWorldPrivate in its last days (these people are currently winning, close to power)
4) growing #fascist (fake #liberty) movements that want #forcedLabour (#MSMSupported).
3/3
Maybe they exist as a #warmBranklet, "Remember these productions, these are the fruits of the #consumerist #westernSociety we created. Don't you still #love them!?"
"Don't you still love these #celebrities we #elevated, just for your #entertainment while we were out pilaging the #earths resources under the pretense of #humanitarian aide?"