02-17-2026, 12:09 AM
(02-16-2026, 09:48 PM)Potato wrote: Modern "Western culture" is anchored in the concept of liberal democracy. Anyone who has travelled anywhere outside of "the west" knows how fragile that concept is and how quickly the world could revert to feudal dictatorships if western culture was to fall over.This is actually something that really grinds my gears personally. I do a lot of academic reading about education, and there's this constant refrain of "down with America, the US is a sinful bad country, nationalism should be abolished" combined with a heartfelt "the highest idea of education is to universally propogate truly democratic ideals".
These cunts...
Uh, fellas, how do you figure the western educational model got such a fundamental connection to the idea of spreading (and improving) democratic ideals in the first place?
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