Technically, this is a fallacy, call it The Western Imperialist
Fallacy, but ask yourself whether any of them, people of any color, even white, would believe it, even if they could understand it......See eg, Paul Bairoch
"...(because our security problems do not arise from a competition among the great powers, but rather out of the seething underclass, domestically and in the Third World, that has been seduced by the cult of consumption at a time when the future dictated by its demographics moves this class ever farther from realizing its fantasies)..." The Shield of Achilles, p. 258.
Maybe, if the White West had not some dominated the Rest, the overwhelming majority of them might now have three bowls of rice a day, instead of two, and now live in a somewhat larger thatched roof dirt floor hut.
Convergolescence is closing in on billions.
Re Bobbitt's passage, I would just note in passing that it is not merely demographics, or even that and the cult of consumption together, that is moving this so called class farther from reaching its fantasies. It is also other processes, some working for centuries now, others only very recently, as well.
Maybe, if the White West had not some dominated the Rest, the overwhelming majority of them might now have three bowls of rice a day, instead of two, and now live in a somewhat larger thatched roof dirt floor hut.
Convergolescence is closing in on billions.
Re Bobbitt's passage, I would just note in passing that it is not merely demographics, or even that and the cult of consumption together, that is moving this so called class farther from reaching its fantasies. It is also other processes, some working for centuries now, others only very recently, as well.
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