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And then they did it again not even 30 years later and would have done it again if it wasn’t for the threat of mutual nuclear annihilation. Remember that when
by empath75 7y ago
And then they did it again not even 30 years later and would have done it again if it wasn’t for the threat of mutual nuclear annihilation.
Remember that when people talk about the superiority of western civilization.
- hprotagonist 7y agoI mean, Vonnegut sure as shit knew that when he wrote those words. 30 years later he was in the basement of a slaughterhouse when his countrymen firebombed him and the rest of the city into slag, after all. And I distinctly recall a rather large and conspicuously non-Western nation being involved in that particular war. Possibly more than that, depending on how you count.
- corporateslave5 7y agoAll that we have is a product of the west, there are arguments about why that is, but the fact remains
- siegeofcondor 7y agoFrom religion to letters to numbers to agriculture to civilization itself, these are not the product of the west. I think you are crediting too much to the west.
- thundergolfer 7y agoYou can't really believe this, as it's so obviously wrong. It is also a contention that has pretty racist adherents; Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment book comes to mind. This isn't a coincidence, as suggesting that non-western peoples have contribute nothing of value to this "we" is pure western chauvinism, which is racism's non-identical twin brother.