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You know what’s going to be the biggest factor getting in the way of soothing the extent that climate change will have on this blue sphere here?
The international community outside of the Western countries gives a fuck about so-called “green technologies”. They care more about their own development, which had been kept down for centuries by the plundering of the dominant European and North American countries. And that means, cheap energy accessible to the biggest mass of people and local industries carries more importance than making it as exclusive as it can get through applying complex and expensive technologies in the chain, which the bigger parts of the population in the first world countries are able to afford (in whatever way possible to individuals).
The mindset of the Western world and what they think of as “problems” is so far away from those of the rest of the world - literally elevated thousands of kilometers above the ground, figuratively.

So are many other issues such as that of a cultural nature, for example.
The rest of the world literally doesn’t care about the gender-fantasies of twenty-somethings in the US or Europe and their dreams of deconstructing the biological base of the two sexes. Or about rainbow flags, pride months and loudly celebrating LGBT minority rights like they would be a cure against HIV and cancer altogether (rights which quite a chunk of areas in the world don’t have anyway).
There are way more urgent problems to them than such boredom- and living-in-security-driven ergotherapy of emphasizing things that revolve around the aspect of the anthropocentric worldview to overestimate the social ongoings between humans in a society.

To the rest of the world, the classic aspects of the mindset of the anthropocentric worldview are important: Where do humans get a space to live, a roof over their head, food and water for humans, jobs to earn money and chances to procreate - as well as chances to feed that offspring and raise it into an adult.

If you want to get the rest of the world into the same boat as the culturally loony Western part of the planet, then you first rather need to get them to abandon their part of the anthropocentric worldview, in which all natural resources of the planet exist just to serve and be consumed primarily by humans. - Including your own focus where human business and social interaction still also overshadows everything, beside you talking about “wanting to save the world” and “protecting the environment” (inconsequently).

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Date: 9 August 2022 09:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kanzeon-2040.livejournal.com
Yes, I agree the Left in the US is out of touch with the problems of living in the rest of the world. In the US we seem to be out of touch with even the problems of living in the US, whether you're on the Left or the Right.

I saw an observation yesterday that reverence for "the market" in the US is so deeply unquestioned at this point, that even on the Left there is a reluctance to criticize any "personal choice", no matter how loony, irrelevant, or destructive such a choice might be. "Personal autonomy" is a rising value on the Left. Not solidarity. A proliferation of personal identities rather than a broadening of coalitions. Resistance to "the government" telling me (or anyone else) what to do. Certainly if somebody is consumed by questions about their own gender expression and coming out as a new identity to their family, friends, and employer, they're not thinking about the projected quadrupling of the population of Africa by 2100, or the problems of daily life in Manila.

Perhaps it has to do with the US being the world's hyperpower — we suffer no discipline. All of the costs of our global dominance are borne by other people and other species. So we get to fiddle around with how to best optimize our own personal happiness and expression while the world burns.

One of many ways this plays out is the pledge by President Biden not to increase taxes on anybody making under $400,000 per year, a pledge followed by the current "Inflation Reduction Act" (which does not actually reduce inflation). There is no sense of shared sacrifice on the Left in the US. Somebody else will pay for it, or we'll just borrow more.

I'm not sure how to lure people in the US out of their little bubbles, to take an approach of wider solidarity with others around the world.

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Date: 9 August 2022 11:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kanzeon-2040.livejournal.com
Interesting way to put it, that the one thing we all have in common is our selfishness.

I've been reading a book by a biologist who studied social behavior across species, in ants, termites, apes, humans, etc. He wrote that no animal has ever shown a concern for its entire species, much less concern for other species. He stated that humans are no different, except for a small minority of us who seem to have an unusual amount of empathy. He does argue that social animals show altruism for their kin or those they consider to be "on my side". But this is rarely a universal altruism, and when you run the biostatistics, there's no reason for DNA to evolve universal altruism. Instead there's a tension between actions that benefit the self and actions that benefit others in our social group.

The foreign aid budget of the US is only 0.2% of our GDP LOL, and we're still the largest GDP in the world. Only 2% of US residents listed the environment, pollution, or climate change as our #1 problem when asked during June 2022. Only 1% listed the gap between rich and poor. Another 1% listed foreign policy or foreign aid. 40% listed the economy, especially the high cost of living. Most people just want more stuff for themselves and their families — that's definitely what unites all of us.

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Date: 9 August 2022 10:35 am (UTC)

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Date: 9 August 2022 09:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maadmike.livejournal.com
"So are many other issues such as that of a cultural nature, for example."

in German

"Ebenso viele andere Themen, zum Beispiel kultureller Natur."

back into English

"Just as many other topics, for example of a cultural nature."

Or it is German is hard to understand or it is Google translator sucks...



“The rest of the world literally doesn’t care about the gender-fantasies of twenty-somethings in the US or Europe and their dreams of deconstructing the biological base of the two sexes.”

History tells more than anybody that all this shit is just the clear glimpses of stagnation but maybe it is just the war against the collective west… drugs popularization, moral dysfunction, economic stagnation, cultural absence, difficult to imagine disunity – all these features remind me how collective west had been fighting with Tsar’s Russia and with China not so long ago… So, maybe this is just a revenge?


Edited Date: 9 August 2022 09:29 pm (UTC)

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Date: 10 August 2022 10:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maadmike.livejournal.com
“I have my own style/way to express here and there”

Yes, as all human being I do believe!
Don’t get me wrong I appreciate your contribution into LJ English speaking community very much, especially when there are so many not native English writing LJ users (I always thinking why there are not India users for example), needless to add there are not many my friends which are English writing LJ users right now thanks to many factors of course. Anyway, I had found, as many others had written before that the writing thing is a very therapeutic thing by itself and when I have problems with writing simple, it means, I do not understand clearly the subject but of course this my thought has nothing to do with you because, again, German is very difficult language to use and this hard work develops the brain of German speaking humans, this maybe the reason that Germany and German language had given to the world so many famous philosophers…

“Although I have to be clear here - this doesn't apply to the underlying subjects plainly existing (they've existed in all previous human societies), but to the cultural overload that is being created out of them.”

Yes, of course yes. I have just thought that American army had experiments of using LSD as a weapon. Interesting to read the results of these experiments of course and anyway, Nowadays USA is consuming drugs as if not on itself… Of course we had some examples of such cultural disaster – Chinese or Asian opioids wars where anglosucks had used drugs to weaken China and to steal as much as possible from it. And if we look on USA in that angle when simple question is rising – who is weakening and stealing from USA right now? Aliens? Where all the gold which USA had stolen from Europe igniting altogether with former Great Britain WW1 and WW2 has gone or will be stolen after the USA will inevitably collapse with such social and economic policy, to the Moon or the rich Americans will bring it back to stable as never now Russia?

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Date: 11 August 2022 06:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maadmike.livejournal.com
“You know, these days it's become a fashion again, to throw the whole factual background of LGBT”

I do not divide LGBT western shit from putting youngsters on drug, from demanding force parents to let brain wash their children to do operation to change gender and so on and on – all these are the mechanisms to reduce population and in other words to kill as much as possible…
It is uncalled war against humanity and all the people of free world should get up against it!

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Date: 11 August 2022 10:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maadmike.livejournal.com
Again, drugs is just one side, one instrument of a huge machinery some crazy or better to say anti-human west rulers are using. You like guns and huge machineries - good then they are telling you – fella, specifically for you we are making wars around the world where the collective west is paying money for terrorists killing civilians and is fighting against the last national countries. Syria – ISIS has grown five times while for five years collective West was fighting against ISIS. Afghanistan – Taliban was made by USA and even when USA has started to fight against it later, how all had been finished – billions of dollars military equipment was left to Taliban. Libya – there was stable national regime and what is there now – groups of fighting against each other groups and so on and on. Americans tried to do the similar to Russia, Vietnam and China but they had failed, at least now… The goal is simple – to kill as much people as possible. To make the circumstances as Europe had during ww1 and ww2 – when all was fighting against each other without any possible thought to stop it and was selling all gold to USA while the plants of USA were working hard to make more weaponry for idiots…

So, yes, you could be against drugs, you could be sober as never and anyway the collective west rulers will try to find a place for you in their criminal activity directed against humanity...

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Date: 11 August 2022 06:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maadmike.livejournal.com
“Hm, I think that question can actually be very solidly answered.
It's the Buffets, the Soros”

“So, well, no-one's found an answer to that previously.”

This is what I was thinking about – these, let’s say Soros like rich bastards couldn’t destroy last platform where they are living with their own children, they need to keep money, real knowledge and morality somewhere… Just imagine that hundreds of years ago some Tsar, which is fighting with all the neighbors because his lands are fertile and his folks are strong and healthy will start poisoning his own population? What will happens with him and with his relatives very soon — ... ? Best example I could rise now is our last Russian Tsar which had played too long with modern at those times ideas ( he even thought of stopping military race :))) ) while against Russia were used very concrete and old technologies to destroy it...

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Date: 11 August 2022 10:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maadmike.livejournal.com
“But can logic apply to American billionaires? (Or people made their billions in the American economic sphere?)”

I am sure there is the deadly logic in all what is going on at the Western hemisphere.
What is about the American billionaires logic then, again I think they are quite logical guys because you couldn’t made money if you do not act according to some logic. Yes, the American printer which has got out of control is making money making things less difficult but anyway there is always small glimpse of competition… it is much more easy to be illogical being a poet, painter, singer but people which are working with real things like finance, industries, building business demand to be sane.

“Well... and otherwise, maybe they all already made the "masterplan" to split the US into their economic zones of influence to squish the last little bit of money out of the populace and to undermine an own sphere of executive power, becoming a little king themselves over some territory. - Just like could be seen in many dystopian movies.”

Yes, that is my question – why to ruin such perfect territory as USA is and to flee to some small one area as Australia or New Zealand? Who knows, maybe the authorities of USA know something like Edgar Cayce prediction that USA soon will suffer from some ecological disaster or something but again, then what for was to print so much money and borrow the resources from around the world to build so many high scrapers, plants, roads, bridges at USA? Strange…

Look on China how their authorities are fighting hard for morality and against all the worst for mankind as the drugs addiction, for example...

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Date: 11 August 2022 06:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maadmike.livejournal.com
"Also: Youngsters these days, for example, less likely tend to get really drunk by alcohol or smoke cigarettes here, but smoke pot instead. And drink their metabolism to heart attack through consuming masses of energy drinks."

Yes, I saw it here in Russia in nineties when Russia has been artificially plunged into addiction of all the types — first youngsters are using weeds and then inevitably they start to use amphetamines to speed up their ruined brains and when they are under amphetamines they are slowing down with consuming huge amount of alcohol and guess what comes next? )) Really hard drugs like mephedrone, heroin, LSD and others… so, it is a matter of time. When youngster is starting to use on a regular basis any drug it will inevitably will ruin his life and the life of his relatives. And when authorities are letting that be it is clear glimpse that your authorities are working not for good for your country or for your society but for somebody else, interesting to kill as many as possible of your citizens, to steal as much as possible…

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Date: 11 August 2022 10:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maadmike.livejournal.com
“If you ask me, not just in the subject of drugs, but many other social issues too, it feels like authorities have given up here. It costs way too much money to get one's own teens and twens back on track”

No, it is not. You have just make it illegal to sell drugs and give police the opportunity to put in jail anybody producing and selling drugs…
Look on the last example as Philippines started to fight the drugs consumption and how fast The West has answered to condemn this work. The president of Philippines had even answered called the president of USA – Son of a bitch! )))
You could say that collective West is for human rights and couldn’t make such a terrible thing to divide people on right citizens and wrong citizens but it is a lie – the collective West has recently easily has divided people on right and wrong with letting steal money from Russians living and earning at Europe, now European officials want to send back all Russians and forbid Russians to visit Europe! So, no, again there are strict logic in Western actions and all is working well but the direction of movement is strange – collective west is moving to hell!

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