re: "Western Civilization" has demonstrated its superiority in many areas

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Wild needs some battery acid thrown at her for sleeping around outside of marriage

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I figure throwing his gay arse off a rooftop would be the perfect example of the kindness and compassion that's so absent in the west

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One could argue that they are mistaken, wrong, myopic, but I don't see how you could take an argument about a specific thing, apply it to a larger thing, and then write of the entire group because of it.

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You can take the work of anyone and use it nefariously. Religious texts have been used as such for thousands of years.

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You can take the work of anyone and use it nefariously. Religious texts have been used as such for thousands of years.

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Sure, but those works are mainly academic, and because of that, are very narrow in their approach. The works that cover large time periods or big problems haven't been in vogue for a long time. It's the study of "particularisms" as one philosopher puts it. The applicability of those works to larger societal ills is dubious at best.

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Women will never be able to line up jets on a carrier like this.

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Well, none of those jets are parallel parked so maybe a woman could do it.

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that also plays into both the attack on fundamental freedoms as well as the lack of any actual critique. it's all linguistic power

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Which was one of Derrida's point. How words change meaning because of their relationship to a structure, or set of relations, which in turn gives them power. He was critiquing the "structurality of structure" as he put it. How that became a framework for critiques of "structure" at large is, frankly, the most amazing fiction. His point was that even attempts to be "centerless" was an event of centering, which for him meant that the subject was always there and present. Being without a center was not his point, though that reading has justified all sorts of relativisms, which have been rightly criticized.

let me just add one thing about Communist ideas

i follow a lot of anti-capitalist, pro-communist (regardless of what they label themselves) pages on FB and i interact with them somewhat regularly (i am a known bootlicker)

their talking points and philosophy works...in a late 19th century world model...hell even up to the mid-20th

their talking points and philosophy have major issues being applied to our current economic status

i will give 2 major examples

1. they love the "you're only a capitalist if you own the means of production" line, to call people who support capitalism and who aren't "capitalists" bootlickers. when the means of production was literally a factory, this fit in perfectly. the means of production in a service/tech society is the production of new ideas. it's not tactile, so it's transferable to anyone. they cannot adequately fit "the means of production" into the modern economy

2. they simply are completely ignorant to how stocks and companies work. this is the area i most engage with them about. they think Jeff Bezos is sitting on a bank account with $140B in cash in it. they also think that for his stock to appreciate to a $140B valuation (they have a tough time understanding this), Bezos did not have to "take" any property from another person.

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I think this video speaks to the West's (and specifically America's) culture superiority. A bunch of Tuareg musicians playing instruments designed in America (and the West).

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Ive partied with Tuareg blues musicians before. That’s all I’ve got.

I went to my a gyro place recently which had a TV that played Arabic music videos. They resembled 90's R and B, which in some ways shows its progress. It was like listening to the Lebanese Ginuwine.

It’s biggest downfall seems to be its own guilt of succeeding after a while.

My god that's nonsensical. I'm perfectly fine with anyone calling themselves anything they want (I personally identify myself as a disabled pokemon, specifically Snorlax), but none of this shite means anything in normative terms.