You know what? I am drinking again. It is Saturday. Just drink more.
Then do not really know what I am posting about.
Saw this video, and I believe it was Prof. Yanis Varoufakis, he was doing an interview, being the guest on a podcast, and at the very last part of the interview, they talked about Russia and China, and the host asked, "Are you not concerned about Western values? Which state poses the greatest threat to Western values?"
Something like that.
What Prof. Varoufakis said was very straight to the point, and there was no doubt in his mind about that.
He said the state that is the greatest threat to Western values was Israel.
Because it was doing two things that were completely against Western values, that the West spent a lot of time, treasure, and effort over the last few decades to eradicate.
ONE was apartheid.
TWO was genocide.
Yet Israel was doing both. What could be more antithetical to Western values that those two things.
Prof. Varoufakis continued by saying, that whatever we may think of Iran or Russia or China, they are not doing those two things.
Guess the prof was saying since this being made a mockery of, then this is a threat to Western values because it is being undermined. That is what I thought he meant.
Those are powerful words. Because it speaks the truth.
To sidetrack a little, Chinese values do not change, except maybe Mao got some people to believe in the concept of serve the people, otherwise Chinese values have not changed since eternity.
But Western values are different, in that it is a process to try to improve it. Over the centuries and decades. Well that is kind of shot to shit when we look at the Middle East today.
Prof. Varoufakis had a very powerful point here. The host was taken aback, but there was no rebuttal to this.
What brings this to mind, is that I am drinking, and that I read an article during dinner time, by a famous right wing Canadian. He talked about briefly that Guardian article saying that a deal was possible with the British security advisor present at those negotiations before the United States did the sneak attack on Iran. What this Conrad Black said was that you cannot trust anything out of that left wing rag.
So that is the right wing's idea to all of this. Just shut up.
That seems to be the reality of Western values today. The left cannot uphold it because it is too weak. The right does not even care and wants people to just shut up.
Without values, does a civilization survive?
That is what Professor Jiang said, he said Western civilization will collapse!
Haha! Haha!
I am going to drink some more before going to sleep.
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