We have never been Modern

“the symmetry between the dismantling of the wall of shame and the end of limitless nature is invisible only to the rich western democracies. The various manifestations of socialism destroyed by the peoples and their ecosystems, whereas the peak powers of the north and the west of been able to save their peoples and some of the countryside’s by destroying the rest of the world in reducing its peoples to poverty. Hence the double tragedy: the former socialist societies think they can solve both their problems by imitating the West; the West thinks it has escaped both problems and believes it has lessons for others even at that as it leaves the earth and its people to die. The West thinks it is the sole possessor of the clever trick that will allow it to keep on winning indefinitely, whereas it has perhaps already lost everything.”

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