Pangur Bán
Deconstructed
A large number of people on the far left seem to direct much resentment against everything Western. They'll hate America, be obsessed with evrything "bad" in western history, like the Crusades or Imperilalism, dismiss the West's unsurpassed cultural, scientific and religious achievements. It goes without saying that they'll hate Christianity, even if they don't dislike religion in general.
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This is how history looks to them:
Ancient Times:
Ancient Greece stealing all its ideas from superior middle eastern or African cultures
The Evil Roman Empire expands, with its primary goal to extinguish the memory of better civilizations to the east or south
Medieval Times:
A period of unsurpassed backwardness; no cultural achievements; totally dependent on, say, the Arabs, for all knowledge. The main western achievements in this period were the Crusades and the Inquisition
Early Modern Period:
The West begins a period of systematic exploitation of superior cultures; colonization, slavery. Western intellectuals conspire to rid memories of other cultures's achievements.
Modern Period:
Western evil culminates in the Nazis and America's even worse Capitalist World Empire; the only good thing is the fall of imperialism, even if this is only an opportunity for increased American commercial expansion; invention of nuclear weapons
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Are you one of these people? Do you think that the West is essentially evil? Would the world be better off without us?
EDIT: My opinion is that the West, America, etc, have been a blessing on the World, in general. Western scientific achievements have brought mankind in general, the wonders of modern life: modern medicine, mass communication, entry into Space, etc, etc.
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This is how history looks to them:
Ancient Times:
Ancient Greece stealing all its ideas from superior middle eastern or African cultures
The Evil Roman Empire expands, with its primary goal to extinguish the memory of better civilizations to the east or south
Medieval Times:
A period of unsurpassed backwardness; no cultural achievements; totally dependent on, say, the Arabs, for all knowledge. The main western achievements in this period were the Crusades and the Inquisition
Early Modern Period:
The West begins a period of systematic exploitation of superior cultures; colonization, slavery. Western intellectuals conspire to rid memories of other cultures's achievements.
Modern Period:
Western evil culminates in the Nazis and America's even worse Capitalist World Empire; the only good thing is the fall of imperialism, even if this is only an opportunity for increased American commercial expansion; invention of nuclear weapons
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Are you one of these people? Do you think that the West is essentially evil? Would the world be better off without us?
EDIT: My opinion is that the West, America, etc, have been a blessing on the World, in general. Western scientific achievements have brought mankind in general, the wonders of modern life: modern medicine, mass communication, entry into Space, etc, etc.
