Chizzang wrote:But when you study dynasties and Empires that spanned in some cases a thousand years and covered 1/2 the globe you kinda gotta scratch your head a little bit when every Republican in this country thinks we're the bees knees and that we're now "king Shit" and will henceforth be distilling and distributing America Democracy - especially to the peoples of the world who aren't smart enough to know they want it... just because they don't know they want it - doesn't mean they don't want it... Ask AZ - that's his answer to everything - the assumption that the rest of the world is as stupid and uneducated as your average American...
...so, all the third world countries that have ethnic cleansing to preserve totalitarian govts...
...they allow it due to their enlightenment?
Stew on this.
Mythos vs Logos. The major difference between Eastern and Western civilization is our epistemology. While the West utilizes a logical, rational form of deductive learning, the East (Islamic/Asian/totalitarian govts.) utilizes the form of mythological learning...repeating and passing down "knowledge" from prior generations...often information so nonsensical it's laughable. To protect itself, those societies incorporate religion into their supposed govts (learning methods), which allows the govt. to "sanctify" itself.
Introduction of Western "logos" method, jeopardizes the existing power framework, which is the principal reason the West has been vilified. It's not really about religion...it's about power.
So...
...in defending third world totalitarian sovereignties...
...you implicitly preserve the same form of mythologically based cultures found in Islamic (and Catholic) dominated banana republics.
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