>>493090>freedom transcends culture :)<moving goalposts this hard
>the west is way way less authoritarian my guy by far<Ignoring that Bush Jr, Obama, Trump, and Biden all expanded the surveillance state while bailing out large corporations whenever their fuck ups screw over the rest of us<sincerely believing that getting to vote for one out of several flavors of corporate shill equals "freedom"lol
lmao
>freedom transcends culture :)<goalpost moving<meaningless hollow platitudeand how exactly are you defining "freedom" here
>i know that, whats your point? that there can only be 1 culture in one country?You're the one trying to use geography to defend some concept of there being such a thing as a fundamentally homogeneous cultural east and west, m8
>the west gives almost everything, most literature and phylosophy came from the west>phylosophy>literature1. enlightenment critiques of the political and economic systems of their day were at least in part influenced native american critiques of european society either directly or indirectly
2. plenty of classic western literature, art and music took inspiration from eastern art, (see: influence of japanese art on impressionism)
>inb4 b-b-b-but it was still western thothat's not the point, the west didn't come up with this shit out of nowhere, many great works of the western canon were products of a centuries-long process of cultural exchange. that doesn't invalidate them or make them bad, it just means that they're not proof of some form of Unique Genius specific to The West (TM), shit is and always has been far more complicated than that
3. the west didn't necessarily invent democratic governance, various forms of direct and/or consensus-based democracy have been in operation in societies across the world for ages (example: archaeologists have recently found evidence of democratic procedures in early mesoamerican soceities). The west didn't invent democracy out of whole cloth, ancient history and archaeology shows that there have been diverse forms of roughly-"democratic" social structures across the globe throughout history, with the "west" just being one fragment of a larger trend. If anything, evidence suggests that the west is far from exceptional, that the east has never been as monolithically authoritarian as people like to suggest, and that the tendency for people to experiment with various forms of what can be called democratic decision making are closer to being universal among human beings than was previously assumed
TL;DR the west isn't exceptional, if anything there are no exceptional cultures, just people trying different shit out and seeing what sticks at different points in time
>most leftism in america and europe is funded by russia[citation needed]
>global totalitarian dystopian regimeit's called capitalism, and we're already there