Caitlin JohnstoneI am not anti-west, I am pro-west. I am so pro-west that I want our values of peace, freedom, democracy, truth and justice to be real life things that exist in actual western civilization and not just a fiction that is taught to western schoolchildren.
I am so pro-west that I want the west to embody the actual western values it pretends to embody. I am so pro-west that I support the practice of spreading western values to the west. I'm a western cultural imperialist, but I want to do western cultural imperialism to the west.
I am so pro-west that I want the western values that were sold to me as a child to be actual things that actually exist. And because I support western values much more than the actual west does, I get called "anti-west" and told to move to China. Shit, THEY should move to China.
It's not "anti-west" to want the west to end warmongering, militarism, censorship, propaganda, government secrecy, oligarchy, injustice, oppression and exploitation, it is PRO-west.
These "western values" we were taught in school are good things.
The west just doesn't value them.
These "western values" we were taught in school are good things.
The west just doesn't value them.
I am like a conquistador, a western colonialist setting sail to spread the wonders of western civilization to these godless western savages. Except instead of actually just bringing them murder, slavery, theft and disease I really am trying to bring them western civilization.
"There is nothing wrong with western civilization that living up to its own professed principles wouldn't fix." I'll probably quote this off and on for however long I continue this commentary thing.
https://twitter.com/mutex7/status/1610079848705462272
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