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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Too old and confined. Never got to the US or East Asia at its universalist peak (11th/12th century) so doesn’t qualify. Modern version is a pale shadow.
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