It's the GENETIC differences that have created the differences between Spain and Switzerland? How about the differences between Spain and Egypt? Russia and Brazil? China and Ethiopia have more in common economically, politically, for example, than Ethiopia and the DRC
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But you're already hitting on the point without realizing it. It is uniquely human to have ideology, to have these kinds of complex social relations (and a vast variety of social relations!) and to have /history/. If you actually compare these social formations historically,
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you'll find they have a lot more to do with the material conditions underlining a given society than the genetics of that society, as we see similar formations at different times across the world, across populations!
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There's no historical evidence of liberal societies originating among anybody but NW Europeans. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness @_leftcat and
... The Neoconservative insanity of the early part of this century was based on the opposite assumption. ...
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... The reaction to that disaster has been a growing inclination to think: "Maybe we should pay some attention to what Arabs and Pathans are actually like."
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... In the way we used to before 20th Century Universalist-Progressive brain-washing.
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You really bought into that bs hook line and sinker. The neocons sided against liberalism whenever they felt they needed to in order to beat the spread of communism. Exhibit A: https://www.dailysabah.com/mideast/2018/03/28/cold-war-era-wahhabism-used-as-tool-against-soviets-on-us-demand-saudi-crown-prince-salman-confesses …
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