I do wonder how this period in history will be looked at in the future. Will this been seen as a strange and incomphrensible state of affairs? That people will wonder how the US and the west could ever have justified their behaviour? Will this just been seen as the end period of the “white man’s burden” era? Will there be people who fall for the propaganda centuries or even millennia from now, the same way we still have people falling for propaganda pushed out by the ancient Romans?
I anticipate that the west will continue to cling to its mythology while the rest of humanity advances. As the west becomes increasingly isolated and xenophobic, its economic decline is all but certain without continued exploitation of the global South. It will be remembered as an empire that dominated the world for a brief moment.
I do wonder how this period in history will be looked at in the future. Will this been seen as a strange and incomphrensible state of affairs? That people will wonder how the US and the west could ever have justified their behaviour? Will this just been seen as the end period of the “white man’s burden” era? Will there be people who fall for the propaganda centuries or even millennia from now, the same way we still have people falling for propaganda pushed out by the ancient Romans?
I anticipate that the west will continue to cling to its mythology while the rest of humanity advances. As the west becomes increasingly isolated and xenophobic, its economic decline is all but certain without continued exploitation of the global South. It will be remembered as an empire that dominated the world for a brief moment.