Worlds apart, united in anthropocentrism (together the ruin of the earth)

[matrixmann]

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).

Comments

[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.

[dshel.livejournal.com]

[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?

[maadmike.livejournal.com]