(December 27, 2020 at 3:30 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:(December 27, 2020 at 2:43 am)Lawz Wrote: When visiting an activism meeting last year I was struck by the organiser's shameless usage of the phrase "middle age white men" as being the source of the world's ills. Given the context of the fact the villains in virtually every film/series of the last....er...25? Years have been overwhelmingly middle age white men, perhaps that organiser's ageist, racist, sexist views are understandable...to a degree (which they doubtless lacked, by my reckoning)...but no, not really...surely...thoughts AF?
I don't know about TV shows I mean the currently most popular TV show, The Mandalorian, features a black middle aged man as a villain.
But you know how it is: it is usually the privileged middle aged white men who run everything from religion, presidency, Senate, Congress, army, the Fortune 500; the wizards behind Hollywood and five-hundred-channel TV... so when the shit hits the fan people start asking if perhaps diversity would fix things.
No shit. White man is the predominant force in the world vis a vis western civilization—but too many problems with this term though—not the least that it should be “white people” and not “white man”.
When you have progressed enough to the point where you’re are the most advanced civilization in the world then of course you’d have a bit of say is pretty much all major affairs of the world that catches attention. It would be same if brown or black or yellow or orange or green or purple people would be in that position—you’d see purple everywhere—so this doesn’t really mean shit.
Question is, how much the supreme power has helped to make life of rest of the denizens of the world better or worse? The answer to that question is that world has only improved thanks to scientific humanism of past few centuries emerging from western hemisphere of the earth.
Data tells us in terms of poverty, life expectancy, quality of life, education, women empowerment, violence, healthcare, food production, and many many other metrics that world has improved a lot in past few centuries.
