why I love the West

it's because I couldn't exist in any other society. There is no way someone with my views, ideas and interests could develop outside of the western civilisation.

So, on one hand, I dispise a large segment of the west for being mindless, shallow, consumerist cunts (among other things), but at the same time I love it because it made me who I am and I depend on it. The few things that I like are products of the west, and all of the people I like are westerners at least by heart, if not geographical position.

It took me a long time to figure out why I would be willing to defend something that I, in general, don't really like, but this is why.

discuss.

i guess that's why they award all those prizes to individuals for scientific achievement. i guess that's why science has more 'heroes' than any other human endavour. i guess that's why things in science are named after those who discovered it. i guess that's why there are literally battles as to who will get to publish something first and get credit for it. i guess that's why....

you really have no idea how science works, do you? for all practical purposes, science == west == individualism.