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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A unique way of looking at, and experiencing the world directly (despite otherwise being a parochial culture) rather than in a mediated way through other cultures
There seems to be a Japanese way of thinking about the whole world that is not just a borrowed/inherited foreign way
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You are using the term “consciousness” in a culturalistic context, less in the traditional sense of the word.

