But, he argues, this so-called progress came at the expense of millions of people of colour. Global inequality is not an accident, he argues - it is designed to keep the hierarchy of race intact.
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The west was built by the hard work and dedication of millions and millions of people, ALL races have been enslaved and some still are. This guy is a race baiter looking for free shit.
does he realize that 2%-3% of all slaves made it to North America?
we are creating an entire generation of young kids of color who will grow up to be professional victims but thanks to this nutcase and people like him they will have some one to blame for all their failures........we are already seeing this play out at college campuses.
I think it's entirely wrong to claim the suffering of your ancestors as you're own, and it's a gross insult to those ancestors, especially when you're an entitled, spoilt snowflake who's never gone without, never gone hungry, never suffered.
Empires, expansionist invasions, industrial revolutions exploit whoever they can, they don't discriminate, apart from perhaps, between those who are easy to exploit and those who are more difficult to exploit.
btw: Has our government now banned cigarette avatars ... I can see their point, if there are no fag avatars, no kids will take up smoking and then they will all be healthy slave workers who will never suffer any respiratory diseases .... how can one argue with that
The above two commenters are correct. This article is extremely flawed, biased and therefore, despicable.
The factory model, the ballyhooed industrial revolution, which is now centuries old and still increasing in momentum and force, has resulted in mass production of various 'consumer' and 'luxury' items of 'incessant quality' (ie., worthless in spiritual denomination, and serving only as a stimulant and excuse for greed). It (the factory model) has been conducted expressly via the mass exploitation of as many people of all types as possible. The color of the people (or their sex) exploited has very little to do with it, instead it is their need to trust and the ease with which they can betrayed and violated.
It is in the nature of humans (and all creatures everywhere), to trust. This need to trust, is built into the world of 'goodness'. In normal settings, all goes well, for the most part, because people who are good do not violate trust. Only by accident would they do this and when they realize they have accidentally violated trust, they make amends as quickly as possible. This is how the world is made, how it conducts itself properly.....I and others call it, the Tao.
But when certain people who consistently violate trust, rise to power, the world comes unglued. Naturalness is lost (disrupted) totally, and exploitation reigns supreme.
The natural glue, which is trust, is replaced by increasingly complex and artificial laws and decrees. The laws and decrees are issued by the violators and exploiters. People get so they cannot distinguish the natural glue or order, with the phoney and the psychotic. The world spirals ever downward into madness of an amazingly complex and inextricable design.
Have a nice day.
ned, out
Ned: Re: mass production
Good explanation for our world's increasingly complex uselessness, or the increase in our social systems' useless complexity to the point of increasing In-efficiency, a/k/a, entropy; (but - as currently in effect, via a self-sustaining hierarchical system that's par for the modern course. Again, entropy, but just getting there the long way round to keep the useless breeders and feeders too busy to get smart. (See Orwell/1984's reasoning behind the cause of war being to waste the products of the machine to keep folks dumbed down.)
Yours: Well put. Mine above: long way around. Oh well.
R.C.
And always will be.
Amen...!!! or Sieg Heil...!!!
@lysna:
Sometimes the little fish can cause great disturbance and discomfort to the big fish while hiding in their bellies.
It is a little trick that little fish can do.
God willing, of course.
ned, out
and I know because I am a little fish
If you start at the tail what do you expect.
Sorry my friend facts are facts.
God is always MIA when people use Fairy Dust ideologies whilst rubbing their WANDS too hard.
And that takes a lot of hard work.
I'm not being personal but painting a big picture.
Would it not be more accurate to say the west was built on psychopathic entitlement, and titles, and a ponerized society completely brainwashed into doing their masters bidding? Go kill and die for Queen and country.
So is the west really a psychopaths "factory" for the divine right to " go forth and multiply ", with the pathological ideology of course?
So maybe its about the proliferation of this gene pool.
Pathology for the world, i.e western values. Debt, lots of it!
While the west destroys your culture, and replaces it with the spiritually dead western one.
Chew on that while eating a big mac, living on your smart phone. The individual is great, to hell with the family,
and your community, and while you buy that, suckers!, then in this mixed up gender pro nouns etc, in the nanny state you now find yourself in, uncle sam knows best. Ah you don't buy it, well who gave you permission to think?
Maybe i'm being racist though.
Nations are racist & supremacists too.
The quicker we see that the faster we develop as humans.
But is racism part of a deeper problem?, or is it skin deep?
We want to disguise it as being part of a different problem because that's where it hides so well.
And so do we.
In the end its harder to do harm to your own kind because of these so called "problems"
Easy if you look down on yellow red black white...
Even if you haven't a problem one will find one as an excuse.
But hiding behind that problem...is guess who..???
Hope it makes sense...it's very late & bed time..
yes i get what you are saying.
Speaking for myself, i am not racist, and never have been.
Neither am i blind to it, i know its a serious problem, but it ain't hiding in me under the guise of any problem.
The problems i see are psychopaths running amock in this world, and the masses blindly following.
My own kind are human beings.
So yes, you make sense.
Good night.
Best example is our own constitution, not only women and black people couldn't vote-non landowners who were white were excluded too.
Tell me why they needed to AMEND it with the bill of rights so soon?
Through history we see people like mlk not get assassinated for civil rights by race, but get killed when they unite the working class. These newspapers are just dividing people, like the Trump/Hillary bs does.
But if they were black or yellow that was OK.
No it's about class & not race.
I don't think so.
I love George Carlin but it's not the gospel you know, so to speak.
that I can deduce from comments thus far is: *all* are potentially racist/imperialist because all have been racist/imperialist, and thus all could be so in the future.
Sounds plausible enough. But here's an anomaly for you.
In the early to mid-15th century, the most advanced, most populous, most well-armed country on Earth was China. They sent out huge naval forces that reached (at least) as far as southeastern Africa. They did some exploring, some trading, some battles with pirates. Then they went home, and then these 'diplomatic missions' ceased. No one knows why exactly, but historians assume the Chinese decided against far-flung imperial conquest for 'some philosophical reasons'.
Now, they *have to* explain it in ideological/philosophical terms because all their usual material measures don't fit: China, the theory goes, *should have* become global hegemon (or at least striven for it like the Europeans who soon followed them into the Indian Ocean; first the Portuguese, then the Spanish, Dutch, British, etc) because that's what every heavily-centralized, industrialized, profit-seeking state seeks to do, right?
But they didn't.
Rather than ask, 'why not?', maybe the question is 'why western Europeans?'
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.... Yeah very inoffensive this asians.
You want to talk about slavery? why dont you talk about the first slave owner and promoter of slavery in north america... the black man Anthony Johnson. What about the jewish slave traders?? what about the arabs being the biggest slave owners in history??? what about africans having slaves centuries before the white men arrieved to Africa???
I do not profess to know the answer to that one, but i will speculate anyway.
Hopefully, spark off others to chime in, and maybe someone can throw more light on it.
So first of all, western Europeans, like others have already stated, are not the only ones guilty of imperialism, slavery, and empire building. However, in centuries past, the known world was a lot smaller. In the modern world, the world has grown somewhat, and now has shrunk again. The earth breathing, lol. (Sorry about that.) So in Genghis Khans time for example, "global" conquest was not even a concept, neither was the earth as a globe. The driving force behind empire has not changed, subjugate the masses, and total control. With elite psychopathic, megalomaniacs wanting all of everything.
Total control of the known world. Today the known world is global, and now the technological means for total global control exist.
So the current European driven globalist empire is being sold in the information sphere, mainly.
A battle for hearts and minds, and if i am not mistaken, this is a first.
I know there are wars, regime change and all that, but globally, and generally, it is a battle for hearts and minds.
Mind control in previous times was enforced, mainly. Today it is sold, and bought.
Which brings me to my last point, 4th density STS.
The hyperdimensional reality, and these beings who occupy such, have influenced world events through history, and were perhaps influencial in other empires, but at this stage in the game, maybe they consider Europeans of use in their drive for complete control. Enforcers perhaps? Mind control.
I know this last paragraph may seem off the charts in this comment section,
but you said a specific anomalous circumstance within a far larger pattern. lol.
Metality...!!!
They weren't really adventurers & outgoing and didn't want to open up to the world via colonization.
The Chinese were always..in the main..an inward looking society..to them foreigners were like Goys to the Jews.
Their world was China & in China.
Hardly a non racist attitude but they did do some fun stuff in Vietnam in the 15th century from what I recall.
Actually, what you're saying about 'inward looking' has been said many times before. Does anyone know anything about the 1918 anti-Chinese riots in Jamaica? Basically, they were chased out of the island for being too 'inward looking'.
So now we're talking about 'states of being'. If you were going to take the negative point of view I guess you could equate the state of 'inward-lookingness' as contempt-for-that-which-is-outside-of-the-self, just as if you were going to take the negative point of view you could equate expansiveness with expansionist.
One things for sure, humans have to breathe in and breathe out.
Nope not calling Chinese a bunch of racist bastards...That would be nasty as they leave that in the background when doing business.
The girls in particular aren't racist when seeking rich husbands or a better life.
I love them...if I wasn't too old & worn out & poor I'd go and get one.
See I'm not racist...!!!
Shame on you HFL...you're a nasty nasty man...
Putting words in my mouth.
But seriously everyone is even a little racist given the right conditions.
Nature/Nurture does its thing.
What's important is to recognize that fact & get over it.
Grow up
Your unstoppable explosions of online dysentery have nothing to do with anyone else but you, and are sure to continue whether or not anyone takes notice or bothers to comment.
Only you know master...
Superiority exists in every culture. Probably even in every person. It's the idea that you are above the others for various reasons i.e. aristocracy/bloodline (probably the most prominent), wealth, education, technology, religion, gender, etc. etc. I don't think slavery has anything to do with race. Slavery has been a common theme throughout history and still going on one way or another. Once it was forced, now it's probably seduced.
'Superiority' comes from one particular perspective, 'quality' another.
OMG-HFL vs. Lysna=0, zip; zed, nada, et al., ad inf.
A classic SOTT exchange if I've ever seen one,
All: Smirk,smile, and move on.
R.C.
You go girl.
Meeeeawww
I don't even see where I was rude & crude...
Also HFL stating that I mess my pants in public...referring to my comments as dysentery is not being rude & crude.
Hahaha...it's funny instead cos you don't like to hear what I'm saying...!!!
And I'll take sides for that reason...DUH...!!!
Also making a comment you can't respond to rationally but emotionally is not rude or crude.
You're attitude is very biased & irrational.
I'm sure you're a decent person but you need to take a good look at your self.
Joining a lynching mob makes you right...good attitude.
But I wont go over that again.
I've seen enough evidence already.
This is all liberalism gone amok. Suffering happens, slavery happens, get over it and move on.
Yesterday has no bearing on today, today has no effect on tomorrow.
Everything is just a jumble of different colored wires, with none having any recognition of the other.
That is quite the philosophy, LonSabbatical.
Yes, sometimes it does seem that way.
Or we wish it were so.
ned, out
In general, there is a present significance to the exploitation of our ancestors. That is to say, everyone's. Your ancestors, no matter your color, also suffered just as much. That's what most seem to miss. It is, factually, often about race. But always it is about the cultural understanding of the time that led to interpersonal conflicts. We inherit such feelings, usually from our biased sympathies about history, or from our family if we're that gullible.






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