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This is concerning. It's also concerning when the country you live in contains as many idiotic conspiracy theories shared hundreds of thousands of times just li
by throwaway3627 7y ago
This is concerning. It's also concerning when the country you live in contains as many idiotic conspiracy theories shared hundreds of thousands of times just like the DRC.
- LandR 7y agoAnti-vaxxers?
- cm2187 7y agoI suspect it has more to do with anti-westerners.
- cojxd 7y agoDarwinism in action. Isn't this forum pro-theory of evolution and against imperialism?
- mc32 7y agoImperialism has both good and bad. The bad comes in the form of top down governance. The good comes in the form of modernization. See Roman and imperial China Empires among others.
- cojxd 7y agoTrue. If you want modernisation from imperialism then you get top down governance. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
- Nasrudith 7y agoUmm that is exactly what happens with colonization - the colony grows big enough to be self-sufficient and starts getting its potential squandered by the home country's top down governce seeing them as a resource reserve instead of another part of their country. Either things are reorganized such that they gain more local autonomy granted effectively losing the top down control or they break off. In either case they typically do better because of it. Even with problems in the aftermath they typically rise further - India for instance.
- Iv 7y agoThis is not because you understand the theory of evolution that you consider it a moral thing to happen. Actually, letting the weak die and selecting only the fittest is almost diametrically opposed to the very idea of civilization. Our goal as civilized animals is to make selection an outdated part of evolution. Cure the sick, help the handicap, preserve the old, protect the young. We don't let people die to diseases in order to strengthen mankind. We take the helm and exterminate pathogens.
- cojxd 7y agoMaybe. I don't consider the Congo to be part of my civilisation, so I don't care.
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- dfeojm-zlib 7y agoI wouldn't read it as a false-dichotomy us/them conclusion, but to the literal facts: Philipines, DRC, US, many countries in Europe are becoming hyperpolarized.. with the intent and aggression being laid down, the only difference is the scale and nakedness of violent acts that result. It's definitely social warfare that's being promulgated with aid of the internet by charlatans and crazies alike.
- cm2187 7y agoThat's one thing but there is also a strong anti-french and anti-british spirit in central africa which isn't new (was the case in the 90s already), and I think this hostility must be much of the source of the defiance toward foreign (ie usually white) health organisations.
- dfeojm-zlib 7y agoYeap. The world is flattening as many countries end their brief (and ever briefer) socioeconomic growth. Happenings in one place become not a first-/third-world disparity, but a near-universal condition. InfoWars hate-radio sparking white nationalist stochastic terrorism here, Rwanda hate-radio sparking genocide there.