If America is the culmination of Western white civilization, as everyone from the Left to the Right declares, then there must be something terribly wrong with Western white civilization. This is a painful truth; few of us want to go that far.The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, Balanchine ballets, et al., don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history; it is the white race and it alone—its ideologies and inventions—which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.
Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer and filmmaker, teacher and political activist.
(via feministsorgnow)
Too much…. We can say the same for every denomination of human civilisation ever. It’s the same mindset behind, (ie) this person has done so and so therefore, anything good about them is null. Let me put it this way nobody in their right mind likes nazism but humanity did benefit as a whole from nazi scientific research morally ambiguous as said research was. We are free not to like or approve let alone participate in whatever we choose but to start this longwinded moralisations which eventually benefit none… Why? We can always learn and improve.
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