Henry James Was Not at Home in America

Re:Henry James Was Not at Home in America by mytailorisrich on Friday April 25, 2025 @06:30AM (#43792107)

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].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_savage

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Re:Henry James Was Not at Home in America by myflash13 on Friday April 25, 2025 @06:38AM (#43792149)

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.

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