The West (i.e. the USA and its various vassals) was always closely aligned with ideas of fascism, racisms and colonialism. That is not new. I grew up in Germany and studied the history and end of the Third Reich closely. Was always fascinated by the fact that the late leaders of this death cult were sure that they could make peace with the U.S. and G.B. as these were similarly fascist countries. They already understood how things really worked. The U.S. since WWII was easily the greatest purveyor of violence around the globe. But as you say, the average Westerner is saturated with Capitalist State propaganda and does not directly experience said violence. Plus there are many distractions. What has changed in the last 20 or so years is that other, more humane societies have gained the required military power to resist the fascist, so-called democracies of the West. The outcome of this is uncertain but if history is any guide a certain amount of pessimism is in order.
Christopher Hitchens once intoned that a man's life is incomplete without experiencing Love Poverty and War. The rifleman who views his adversary through sights or scope, as a living human, then dispatches him, has only the best seat. We all know how the movie ends.
The West (i.e. the USA and its various vassals) was always closely aligned with ideas of fascism, racisms and colonialism. That is not new. I grew up in Germany and studied the history and end of the Third Reich closely. Was always fascinated by the fact that the late leaders of this death cult were sure that they could make peace with the U.S. and G.B. as these were similarly fascist countries. They already understood how things really worked. The U.S. since WWII was easily the greatest purveyor of violence around the globe. But as you say, the average Westerner is saturated with Capitalist State propaganda and does not directly experience said violence. Plus there are many distractions. What has changed in the last 20 or so years is that other, more humane societies have gained the required military power to resist the fascist, so-called democracies of the West. The outcome of this is uncertain but if history is any guide a certain amount of pessimism is in order.
Short term pessimism, long term optimism. We are living a critical and dangerous transition to the essential multipolar world.
Revelation 13:11 KJV
And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
Christopher Hitchens once intoned that a man's life is incomplete without experiencing Love Poverty and War. The rifleman who views his adversary through sights or scope, as a living human, then dispatches him, has only the best seat. We all know how the movie ends.