The basic issue is not the West but the whole global capitalist principle of profit over people. We measure everything in synthetic currency gains instead of value to the environment and its inhabitants.
Well said, and I agree. Just because we think something must be true and really want it to be true doesn’t make it so. The very fact that some people have long, healthy, prosperous lives and others have short, horrible, pain-filled ones is for me the best evidence that there is no all-loving, all-knowing, all-powerful god or gods.
I wonder whether there is an upper limit.
We act in tribes at all kinds of levels; family, friends, neighbourhood, football team, country, even up to the axis and allies of the world wars.
We can be at a gig and feel totally at one with everyone else on the dance floor and then scrap as an individual…