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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In my sense of the term 'global consciousness', zionism might be the perfect anti-global sensibility. A consciousness focused on a tiny part of the world that no non-Jew can participate in or is even welcome to try


