Yes, I've been contemplating about it for a long long time now, but I simply won't do it at this time cause I can't pictify things anymore... Silent protest ftw!

"its only pointless if you consider culture as pointless."

Not at all, it's pointless when you realise that ranking things that are not even rankable is silly. Culture has little to do with it, only selfrightiousness.

Who ever claimed there was a point in being part of TI or any other group of people?

I wish it was still that time...

Exactly. "Inferiority" or "superiority" is culturally biased and is thus pointless.

"i think the only thing that makes China less civilized is the heavy amount of censorship the Chinese government uses."

The thing is that only we in the west are so attached to it, while others don't mind it at all It's again something of the west we project on other civilizations. It's not necessairily something that points to inferiority.

I agree with you Schniepel. Primal power is a remain of the 19th century history writing though, back in the days where the Nationstate was considered the ideal thing..

"Yes the US is the greatest and most powerful Western empire in the modern age, but that doesn't change the fact that it's your fault for losing your empires. Sometimes I get the idea that your Europeans hate us Americans more than China, and my feeling is "wtf, you want China to replace the US?" The hate is so unjustified. You should love us more, at least we are more civilized than China and are more culturally similar to you than they are."

What the bloody hell? How patronising and megalomanic is that statement? I wouldn't call america "the greatest", and I wouldn't call China "less civilized" (rather other-civilisized).
However, it's true that we are all westerners and that we are in a lot of aspects similar. The difference lies in different accents, but we do share the same foundation. This doesn't mean that we shouldn't critisize eachother, as good and well-founded critisizm is very usefull.
An example, we can all agree that we consider China a terrible place to work and to live (compared to our western countries), wich is a more profound disagreement than when Europeans disagree on certain policies in the US and the other way around.

For a better and more structured explanation, I'd like to refer to Peter Stearns' work

"lol i've been hidin away from the crazy f-mods, and i see someone got drunk and made you one lol."

I claim that.

3 songs? At this time, it must be:

-Virginia Astley - Whith my eyes open, I'm dreaming (I still get shivers every time I hear it)
-Noir D

General -> community

and hello Shadowwolfs! Your name does ring a bell!!!

It reminds me of Donnie Darko..

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