Think of it this way. Tech change is necessarily global in scope, respecting no human boundaries.
So a consciousness is global if it has a signature way of responding to tech change.
There’s only 2 independent ways: American and Japanese. Rest are some function of these 2
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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.


