How many truly distinct global consciousnesses exist, as in a planetary-scale ethos of being? I count only 2: American and Japanese. The USSR almost got there but didn’t. Europe, even at peak colonialism, remained continental-parochial. China seems headed that way too.
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I feel like Greco Roman might be the earliest to achieve this? Aesthetics, scholasticism, sexuality, distinct POV on the world Korea w/esports actually aligns well w your Japan example. It's an export that's literally pervaded every country and inherited all the origninal norms
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Nope that's a European conceit. Boundary stopped at Persia. Nothing before ~1600 or more conservatively WW2. The world was just not known and integrated enough.
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You are using the term “consciousness” in a culturalistic context, less in the traditional sense of the word.
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