Re:Henry James Was Not at Home in America
by myflash13 on Friday April 25, 2025 @06:08AM
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This is the typical Western have-it-all superiority complex thinking. "No one has it better than us. No one has built a better civilization than us." I say that as a Westerner myself. You simply can't imagine what a better life looks like, and how shitty life has gotten in the over-financialized West until you actually experience something truly different.
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Re:Henry James Was Not at Home in America
by mytailorisrich on Friday April 25, 2025 @06:30AM
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A bit harsh. This is not a "superiority complex" this is my experience of actually visiting third world countries and the reality of data (education, health, migration, etc). Also strange to hit on Westerners when you mentioned that you live in Europe.
This sounds a little like the utopian and ideological Westerner who thinks that the West is 'bad' (I don't even know what "over-financialized West" means...) and non-Westerners may be poorer but happier, which in the extreme archs all the way back to the "Myth of the Noble savage" [1].
Re:Henry James Was Not at Home in America
by myflash13 on Friday April 25, 2025 @06:38AM
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It is Europe but not the West. The “West” I am defining here as the NATO countries with a high GDP. Over-financialized means exactly that — over-reliance on interest-based and venture capital funding, and a culture of profit optimization at all costs that ruins everything else.