I agree with you Bibor.
Personally i am very facinated with China, the more i learn especially about the history and culture. I also hold the belief that our western idea that our way of life is the 1 only way to happiness and justice doesnt neccessarily have to be true.
There are always people of a different opinion, and we frankly dont have the right to impose our way of living onto any others against their will. Then if that will is the will of the few leader or the people is a judgement to be made.
But indeed the truth cannot be avoided, the "blade runner future" we face will be dominated by mandarin and indo, not only due to the population growth but also due to the industrialization in China and India.
And although some nations may have methods which the western world deems inhumane, we must face the reality that the vast majority of the population in these nations are very patriotic. Is it our right to dismiss their patriotism as uneducated "they dont know whats good for them" nonsense, and move on to impose our standards on them? I think not.
But i disagree with your statement that "Humans were never self-governed. We just replaced beasts and nature with different beasts and the unnatural. Humans are primarily governed by fear, because it's hardcoded that fear promotes self-preservation. Exceptions to this rule are exceptions."
Its a pretty common cynical "cool-thing-to-think-these-days".
We're not primarily governed by fear, nor is it hardcoded anymore. We've not evolved much in terms of physical evolution since 10000 or 100000 years ago, when we roamed the steppes, but we've evolved far more in terms of mentality and co-existance than people with that cynical opinion give us all (yourself included) credit for.
Even if our brains remain nearly identical, how we use it has changed alot.
Of course you can make examples of a man born and grown up in the wilds, but the modern examples include as you said, billions of people living together, many of which (what was the latest statistic, over half of the worlds population?) live in cities now.
Something which was inconcievable 100,000 years ago, not only because of the low human population but because we simply did not THINK in the method required to co-exist to that extent.
We did truly think in a fear-driven self-preservation manner, and if we still did we would not have cities with millions of inhabitants and nations with up to a billion inhabitants.
These arent millions and billions of maniacs driven by fear, resorting to any means possible for self-preservation, these are real people, not beasts or animals anymore.
The exceptions, are the beasts, the murderers and state leaders (they are the ones who declare war, not the civilians).
They are the ones who are driven by fear and self-preservation, not the majority.
Going to the store to pick up a loaf of bread isnt driven by fear.
Assassinating a foreign diplomat or declaring war to prevent nuclear proliferation, that is driven by fear, and the tiny minority.
