> What a poisonous, progress stunting way of looking at the world How could my position be progress stunting... "We need to do something" is progress _advocacy

> What a poisonous, progress stunting way of looking at the world How could my position be progress stunting... "We need to do something" is progress _advocacy_. To argue that nothing needs to change is progress _denial_. >Nobody manufactured the desire in the developing world... From here you reach "So nothing needs to be done, everything functioning as expected". The problem is: > It's so hot in Mexico that howler monkeys are falling dead from the trees. Something must be done! And as a card-carrying member of the Global North, I will do my part to advocate for change. > [you] implicitly position those of the "global South" as nearly brainless, helpless victims of their superiors. I would never do such a thing. I merely accept that the Global North has hegemony on defining our culture. Those in the Global South are not brainless and helpless, but I can't help them, I am up here! I can only advocate for change within my culture which for some reason has an undue impact on other cultures. > The ideology isn't even imposed You may think you operate in a hyper-rationalistic post-ideological manner, but you are just as much of an ideologue as the rest of us. Of course you can 'choose your ideology'... Hey, for example I change my ideology to socialist! Yay, now I live in socialism! Oh wait, I still have to consume in a system that requires child labor and wage-slavery. The ideology of liberal capitalism is _forced_ on us, or we can go to the woods and die alone.