(April 19, 2017 at 2:30 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Hehe. Way way back in day we used to smuggle shit into the soviet union, on the notion that if they saw our dishwashers, they'd abandon their political system. To some extent, we were right.
Wish that worked for religion. "Hey look, we have a telescope",
Theist, even Russians Orthodox Christian Majority and Muslims, "Yea but you don't hate LGBT like we do".
Science, "Um, hey guys, the medical community and psychiatric community has long since ditched the claim being homosexual is bad".
Christians, both American and Russian, "So what?"
Muslims, "So what and we will kill them".
I hate the word "system" and "ideology" and "religion". Yes they do exist, and you cannot force 7 billion humans to think on the same page. But all the labels humans invent still amount to attempts to make social order. Science says in reality that in the long term, no matter what complicated "systems" humans create, the success is still temporary in cosmic time.
I'd only say that more open west is in tune to the compassionate side of our species, but even then, there is a far right element in closed societies and even in the west, that gets sold tribalism and absolute "my way" nationalism/theism which is the selfish side of our species.
