By Pepe Escobar – posted with permission
Compare hundreds of millions of Asians’ serene response to the coroavirus crisis with the West’s fear, panic and hysteria
As the Raging Twenties unleash a radical reconfiguration of the planet, coronavirus (literally “crowned poison”) has for all practical purposes served a poisoned chalice of fear and panic to myriad, mostly Western, latitudes.
Berlin-based, South Korean-born philosopher Byung-Chul Han has forcefully argued the victors are the “Asian states like Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan or Singapore that have an authoritarian mentality which comes from their cultural tradition [of] Confucianism.”
Han added: “People are less rebellious and more obedient than in Europe. They trust the state more. Daily life is much more organized. Above all, to confront the virus Asians are strongly committed to digital surveillance. The epidemics in Asia are fought not only by virologists and epidemiologists, but also by computer scientists and big data specialists.”
That’s a reductionist view and plenty of nuances should apply. Take South Korea, which is not “authoritarian.” It’s as democratic as top Western liberal powers. What we had in a nutshell was the civic-mindedness of the overwhelming majority of the population reacting to sound, competent government policies.
Seoul went for fast mobilization of scientific expertise; immediate massive testing; extensive contact tracing; and social distancing, as well. But, crucially, most of it voluntary, not imposed by the central power. Because these moves were organically integrated, South Korea did not need to restrict movement drastically or to close down airports.
Hong Kong’s success is due in large part to a superb health care system. People in the frontline, with institutional memory of recent epidemics such as SARS, were willing to go on strike if serious measures were not adopted. Hong Kong and Taiwan’s success was also due in large part to myriad professional links between their healthcare and public health systems.
Barbarism with human face
Then there’s Big Data. Han argues that in neither China nor other East Asian nations is there enough critical analysis in relation to digital vigilance and Big Data. But that also has to do with culture, because East Asia is about collectivism, and individualism is not on the forefront.
Well, that’s way more nuanced. Across the region, digital progress is pragmatically evaluated in terms of effectiveness. Wuhan deployed Big Data via thousands of investigative teams, searching for possibly infected individuals, choosing who had to be under observation and who had to be quarantined. Borrowing from Foucault, we can call it digital biopolitics.
Where Han is correct is when he says that the pandemic may redefine the concept of sovereignty: “The sovereign is the one who resorts to data. When Europe proclaims a state of alarm or closes borders, it’s still chained to old models of sovereignty.”
The response across the EU, including especially the European Commission in Brussels, has been appalling. Glaring evidence of powerlessness and lack of any serious preparations have appeared even though the EU had a head start.
The first instinct was to close borders; hoard whatever puny equipment was available; and, then, social Darwinist-style, it was every nation for itself, with battered Italy left totally to itself.
The severity of the crisis especially in Italy and Spain, with elders left to die to the “benefit” of the young, was due to a very specific EU political economy choice: the austerity diktat imposed across the eurozone. It’s as if, in a macabre way, Italy and Spain are paying literally in blood to remain part of a currency, the euro, which they should never have adopted in the first place.
As for France, read here for a relatively decent summary of the disaster in the EU’s second-largest economy.
Going forward, Slavoj Zizek gloomily predicts for the West “a new barbarism with a human face, ruthless survivalist measures enforced with regret and even sympathy, but legitimized by expert opinions.”
In contrast, Han predicts China will now be able to sell its digital police state as a model of success against the pandemic. “China will display the superiority of its system even more proudly.”
Alexander Dugin ventures way beyond anyone else. He’s already conceptualizing the notion of a state in mutation (like the virus) turning into a “military-medical dictatorship,” just as we’re witnessing the collapse of the global liberal world in real time.
Enter the triad
I offer, as a working hypothesis, that the Asia triad of Confucius, Buddha and Lao Tzu has been absolutely essential in shaping the perception and serene response of hundreds of millions of people across various Asian nations to Covid-19. Compare this with the prevalent fear, panic and hysteria mostly fed by the corporate media across the West.
The Tao (“the way”) as configured by Lao Tzu is about how to live in harmony with the world. Being confined necessarily leads to delving into yin instead of yang, slowing down and embarking on a great deal of reflection.
Yes, it’s all about culture, but culture rooted in ancient philosophy, and practiced in everyday life. That’s how we can see wu wei – “action of non-action” – applied to how to deal with a quarantine. “Action of non-action” means action without intent. Rather than fighting against the vicissitudes of life, as in confronting a pandemic, we should allow things to take their natural course.
That’s much easier when we know this teaching of the Tao: “Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.”
It also helps to know that “life is a series of natural and spontaneous choices. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
Buddhism runs in parallel to the Tao: “All conditioned things are impermanent. When one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.”
And to keep our vicissitudes in perspective, it helps to know: “Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.”
As far as keeping much-needed perspective, nothing beats, “the root of suffering is attachment.”
And then, there’s the ultimate perspective: “Some do not understand that we must die. But those who do realize this settle their quarrels.”
Confucius has been an overarching presence across the Covid-19 frontline, as an astonishing 700 million Chinese citizens were kept for weeks under different forms of quarantine.
We can easily imagine them clinging to a few pearls of wisdom, such as: “Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.” Or “he who learns, but does not think, is lost. He who thinks, but does not learn, is in great danger.”
Most of all, in an hour of extreme turbulence, it brings comfort to know that, “the strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.”
And in terms of fighting a dangerous and invisible enemy on the ground, it helps to know this rule of thumb: “When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”
So what would be the ultimate insight a serene East can offer to the West in such hard times? It’s so simple, and it’s all in the Tao: “From caring comes courage.”
Thankyou, Pepé.
Good cultural perspective.
¿Can the west and can north america adopt eastern ways?
¿Can western leaders become caring? I answer, Yes, and there will first be suffering by the elite.
The global elite, the Liberal Cult, has not let go. They seem to have positioned themselves to enforce their rule via vaccine.
Their goal, never forget, is a planet with 300 million persons, a Feudal system with them at the apex.
So embrace the philosophy and wisdom Pepe offers. But know that the Elite intend to cull you, too.
It’s all part of the age old formula, never to be disturbed.
and it never cease to astonish me that the ordinary people never intend to cull the elite..never do anything about the elite..regardless of all the pain the elite visist on the people.
isnt it sweet when you can do as you please to the people in a huge world of people..and no one wants do anything to you
there are jihadists all over the world, incensed to kill for this or that purpose or idea or belief..but there is no jihadism towards the elites. and that is the most incredible of realities.
ben, not sure if you know this, but the jihadis you speak of, sellers of thier souls to the highest bidder, they all work for the elite. Remember, they, the elites, have all the money and in a world of shiney scheckles…….well, you know who controls that. Yes? There really is nothing incredible about it……………..just pathetic excusses for human beings.
Only BSL-4 Laboratories are allowed to handle Bio-weapons.
The Washington Post is accusing the BSL-4 Lab in Wuhan China for creating and spreading the Covid -19.
Since 1999, the John Hopkins Centre for health security has been funded by Bill & Melinda Gates.
Since 2002, BSL-4Labs in the US, Canada, Japan and the UK has been able to cause Swine flu, Bird flu, SARS, and MERS pandemics.
In February 2003, a SARS-COV pandemic hit South Asia incl. China and killed more than 750 people.
Since 2004, The Pirbright Institute, funded by Bill & Melinda Gates, has held, along with the US CDC, the patent to the SARS-COV virus.
In June 2012, a MERS-COV pandemic spread from the Middle East, and killed 3 times as many adult men than women in its path.
In October 2014, the US. Imposed a moratorium on funding to any US research that makes deadly or contagious viruses.
Since 2015, the new Chinese Wuhan BSL-4 Lab has been receiving viral material and assistance from various US Bio Labs and private institutions like the John Hopkins Centre for health security.
The Wuhan coronavirus research was aimed at preventing another SARS pandemic in China.
The Wuhan research showed that SARS-COV can interact with the human ACE2. This strongly suggests that virus found on the Horseshoe bat has been genetically manipulated to be able to infect humans and cause SARS disease.
January 2018. The ‘paused’ US funding to the Chinese Wuhan BSL-4 Lab is lifted by the Trump Administration.
March 2018, The US embassy Consul and Counselor of health are inspecting a Chinese BSL-4 Laboratory. I wonder whether they have any special expertise in how to handle Bio-weapons.
October 2018, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the World Economic Forum, and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, an exerise to test the world for its preparedness to a worldwide Corona pandemic.Called COVID-19.
In December 2019 a SARS-COV2 pandemic hit the city of Wuhan in China. WHO named the virus COVID-19.
Shi and other researchers at the Wuhan Laboratory have strongly denied that the SARS-COV 2 = COVID-19 was released from the Wuhan Lab.
If the Washington Post looks deep into the US Deep State of BSL-4 Laboratories they will be able to pin point the real origin of COVID-19, instead of blaming the primary victim, China.
I wonder if Bill Gates will be the first to come up with a vaccine against Covid-19, thus making billions by bringing a New World Order to the health Chaos he’s funding helped create.
A. Dane
Correction:
October 2019, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the World Economic Forum, and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, an exerise to test the world for its preparedness to a worldwide Corona pandemic.Called COVID-19.
A. Dane
If that is really the way the east operates – congratulations.
In the west ruling by fear is obvious. In the old days it was “If you do not behave the way we misinterpret a poorly translated old book you will end up in the hell we dreamt up for you.”
A recent iteration “If you do not reduce your energy consumption to almost zero the planet will overheat” and the current iteration “If you do not practice ‘social distancing’ you will get infected and die a horrible death while overloading the health system.”
In the west there is no official way of dealing with death anymore. For materialists it is the end and their belief will be put to the test. Even in the Bible Lazarus got resurrected because the family could not bear the pain.
During a Vipassana Meditation I learned the Buddhist equivalent of the Lazarus Story. The young son of a mom died and the mom asked the Buddha to resurrect him. Buddha replied “Get me some salt from a household where nobody died.” The mourning mom went in a big city from door to door asking if somebody had died before. always somebody had died and she returned without the salt.
Her son remained dead.
She accepted death as a fact of life.
Here on the Blog fom a post by Mansoureh Tajik I learned that The Shiites have a somewhat similar view, re- told from my memory:
The true believers went to a battle that they lost where all men got killed, women and kids put on a death march with the perspective to be sold into slavery. The captured woman marching in chains saw only exceptional beauty.
I can only state my highest respect for this view, as far as I understand this is in the enlightened league.
It will be an interesting time to see how the various peoples deal with the new sustem that will be peresented after the virus or the virus panic recedes.
PS: Is “May you live in intersting times” a Chinese curse?
“The root of suffering is attachment,” absolutely correct, and the antidote, detachment or indifference. Detachment does not mean unemotional and cold, etc. it simply means that in one’s innermost self, one is independent of the things that surround him/her. Signs of attachment are anger, fear, anxiety etc. Signs of detachment, serenity, forgiveness, acceptance. One should aim for detached love, or charity/goodwill toward all of life, and yes, even other people, it does wonders for the spirit.
Food for thought now we have lots of time to know ourselves again.
The article linked by Pepe by Alexander Dugin is worth reading and makes sense given ongoing events.Panicked western governments are beginning to talk about vaccines being the way to get back to being allowed to move about again.
Definitely medical martial law is the new obstacle to be faced and the antichrist is already moving.
Having said that us individuals always have the choice in the moment called now to accept the very fact that we are alive, and this being so to consciously live our lives however simple life has been made.If we can not make this choice then we are doomed to forever rage at our very existence.
Respected author invites liberties . Hard ,if not more so,to understand the expressions of Taoism or Buddhadharma without having spent considerable time on the ground; alone and abandoned. It is uncommon to apperceive understanding without practice. Yin as expansion and levity and Yand contraction does not follow ” Being confined necessarily leads to a delving into yin instead of yang, leading to a slowing down and a great deal of reflection.” This statement is a yang process if chosen to be defined as such because reflecting upon the self is an inward direction and by nature contraction; as is confinement. The authors inability to understand to basics of yin and yang and their inherent contradictions leads to a questionable conclusion. ” To study thyself is to know thyself: to know thyself is to forget thyself. To forget thyself is to be enlightened by all things.” Yin ; yang and neither. To define the Tao as the ‘way’ is to omit ‘the way of nature’; the way of nature is not how to live in the world necessarily or by definition. The tao as ‘logos’ is not how to live but apperceive.
To imply China or the East has fully encapsulated these teachings is to suggest corruption, manipulation and subterfuge serve no role and ponerization not; and that we have not encountered the corruption elsewhere.
Understand -“to stand under”in English,legally.
In the Gaelic language the translation simply means “I get it” and in Thai it means “the heart gets it” fascinating similarities from two cultures far apart physically.The Anglo Zionist language is aiming to submit us to a higher authority while the other is simply accepting a perceived knowledge.Big difference in how one might proceed from the point of “getting it”.
If the East has coped better because of Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism then it implies that the West has not coped well because of its fundamental values.
What are these values? And why has it made dealing with Corona so difficult?
The west is over saturated with endless information that is unfortunately mostly of poor quality. It is difficult to be principled because shallowness is so much more convenient. The current lockdown is so blatantly an overreaction and yet everyone sheepishly complies. The west is full of drones here in N San Diego County.
I think one answer there is individualism. I learned in kindergarten in the States that you have to assert your own needs and desires or everyone will assume you don’t have any. In Japan, as I understand it, kids in grade school learn to look for a way, any way, even small, that they can serve the group, improving conditions for all.
So may we call this “conflucius”?
Today I went to a park in Singapore to get some exercise. Parts of the park are clearly marked closed to prevent people gathering and increasing the risk of transmission. The funny thing was that the only people breaking the rules were Caucasian expats.
All of this is true. Speaking as someone who’s trained as a Zen monk and am familiar with this perspective.
On the other hand, let’s recall that China’s been around a long time, and has had umpteen Dynasties. When the people are clear about a current dynasty’s intention, and they’re getting screwed, they don’t put up with it.
After all, that’s what happened to the last Emperor of China, and why the Chinese communists fought Japan to the death.
One time, I had a conversation with the Chief of Police of a 5 million person city. He asked my opinion of Marxism. I replied that as I understand it, Buddhism believes in saving all beings, without exception. And Communism seeks to spread wealth (and knowledge) equally. Basically, the same intention, just approached from different angles. Incidentally, he was also a sculptor, emphasizing the need to protect the environment.
A Chief of Police caring about the environment? His friend came and joined our conversation. He’s an army general and an art painter. I can’t imagine Western military people having such a sensibility.
The problem is not that there is too much democracy in the Western world. If anything the problem is the exact opposite. The big corporations have too much power and therefore infrastructure gets hurt or sold off. In my country (Denmark) the state owned vaccine factory was sold of to some Saudis of all people. Not good.
Another problem is that our politicians don’t have as much between their ears as their predecessors had a few decades ago (I am an old man and I remember). These days the best and the brightest get better jobs in the public or private sectors.
Bottom line: Confusius is not the answer and leaving it to the market is definitely not the answer..
I’m glad he didn’t just swallow the thesis whole. South Korea is a clear counterexample. But there are others, non-Asian states that haven’t had free market learned helplessness imposed on them, and therefore do fairly well.
Basically, the worst outcomes and approaches are simply and precisely mapped to free-marketeerism/neoliberalism, with its insistence that the state should be, not precisely small, but removed from all functions that might have a chance of making money and all functions that might get in money’s way. Free marketeers profess their conviction that government is inherently useless, but when it fails to actually be useless they busily kneecap and starve it until it fails, so they can replace government functions with profit-driven private or quasi-private approaches. The ideal is always, government pays money and takes the risk while the private sector takes profit and walks away if anything goes wrong.
This sort of deliberately hollowed-out government, maimed by “austerity” and so on, fails on the obvious level because it has given away the ability to do useful things. But it fails on two other levels as well. First, it fails on the social level because legitimizing the “free market” as the solution to everything requires pushing the idea of an atomized society that comes down to a war of each against all, and more specifically requires undermining the legitimacy of the idea of government. So people are pushed to be less co-operative both with government and with each other, with obvious consequences in a pandemic situation. In nominally democratic countries they try to somehow keep “democracy” as an icon while simultaneously trashing the “government” that is the result of the democratic process (and of course undermining the substance of democracy with money). The contradiction doesn’t ultimately hold very well; this is why there’s been such a loss of confidence in the concept of democracy in a lot of places.
The third way such governments tend to fail is that, while useful functions of government are systematically undermined in such places, policing and warfare are actually boosted, both in fact and propaganda. China is authoritarian, but the United States has both a far bigger military budget and tons more people behind bars. The police are further above the law in the United States than in China. And the mindset of the United States is oriented far more towards the military, war and so on. This is less the case in other neoliberal states, but militarism and police state approaches still grow there simultaneous with “free market” orientation. This is not at random. There are two core reasons, both stemming from the fact that neoliberalism involves making lots of people’s lives suck. Thus, first, lots of police and a law-and-order approach are needed to keep the people (specifically, mostly the poor) down. And second, lots of distraction is needed, in the form of something to fear–Russia, immigrants, terrorists, whatever–something that our mighty military and police can protect us from, something to distract us from thinking “Gee, if our government is so useless and our lives suck, why don’t we change something?” This still erodes trust in the longer term, since so much of the public only interacts with government when it’s hitting them with a baton or threatening them with a gun.
The result of all this is that every serious crisis can only be thought of as a war, since that is both the main remaining set of government tools and the society’s mindset about what government is for. So every problem becomes not something requiring co-operation and solidarity, but something requiring violence or coercion. Closing the borders and whatnot.
China and some others have not succeeded because they are authoritarian. They have succeeded because they have strong government and because they have not destroyed social cohesion; this is not at all the same and not even correlated. Honduras is authoritarian, it’s a dictatorship. But it is also a Pinochet-style free market playground for big corporations, privatized and austeritied to the hilt, with no trust from the public, and will be completely unable to do anything of much use when the pandemic hits it. Classic social democracies, still oriented towards an active government which is allowed to do useful things, have been doing well even though they are not authoritarian at all; this is both because the government itself still has the capacity and because civic trust in government has not been undermined, and in some places because society itself is less atomized, more capable of civic mobilization. And of course the best response of all is probably in Cuba . . . which, I hate to break it to a lot of people, isn’t actually authoritarian, at least not these days. They have an elected parliament, with no money allowed in elections, and a president in turn elected by the parliament. The current president is an electrician. They recently did a set of constitutional amendments which were broadly debated by the people over a long period of time, tinkered with based on that, and then voted on by the public and adopted by a huge margin. But they do have a very strong government and they do have very strong civic participation.
So no, an authoritarian government and submissive public aren’t either necessary or as such particularly useful. What you need is a government with significant powers, which has not abdicated its useful functions to markets, and which thanks to its utility has the trust of the public. As a side note, you can see from this description how free market ideology and plutocratic rule leads in the end, when government usefulness has broken down badly enough, to fascism both as a culmination of the directions things have been going and as a sort of last ditch attempt to save the system.
I would also likewise use this to advocate for the return of the Christian Monarchies. Social cohesion was likewise also better then, but naturally Monarchy is also reflective of God and Heaven, and so a moral order is maintained, as is the nuclear family. Likewise, people can also elect representation under a constitution.
Sadly, the lodges managed to overthrow the monarchs and those who weren’t overthrown unjustly, fell prey to usury and corruption of the bastard ‘enlightenment’ and undid themselves in the long run. From there we eventually got the revolutions of France, Russia, and America. Russia went further along and is on recovery, whereas it is inevitable that France and America will fall to the errors of Communism.
Really? Then what to make of all those videos where Chinese were clearly being dragged against their will and physically barred in their homes?
Didn’t look that cooperative to me… Though I suppose you could argue that the will of the majority imposes such social harmony on the outliers? But then that’s essentially no different than the Western Democracies.
If anything I’d chalk up the Asian response as the result of a culture of closer family and local neighbourly life than in the US, and where there is precisely less dependency on government for solving everything. This is the proper balance between the larger collective and the individual. The Christians solved this and built the hospitals on this years ago.
Hospitals should be stripped from both government and pure dependence on capitalist private enterprise and made into a religious vocation once again. Where medicine and healing and hospitality is first out of service to God.
House of numbers is a movie about the HIV/AIDS hypothesis particularly interesting because HIV and CoronaVirus need the exact same tests/tricks to be seen: ELISA. CoViD-19 is AIDS for everybody, not just for dope fiends, (Removed language,MOD) (Untermenschen). I do love your work that is life saving for me and I hope that this will help you broaden your view of what’s happening today.
Speaking of HIV/AIDS,you may find the following worth a read:
The Remarkable Doctor A. Fauci
F. William Engdahl
4-15-20
excerpted:
Nice summary of Eastern wisdom in the face of this great challenge. When the first case was reported in Japan, I said, the test has arrived. At this point they are implementing stricter measures as needed.Today, my town’s public broadcast system featured the mayor urging people to cut social contacts by 80%. I and everyone else stops and thinks, “How many people do I meet normally in a week? How can I reduce that to one fifth?”
A close friend stopped by and we talked at 2 meters distance. The spring festival of our Fuji Faith (dating from the late 1500s, incorporating Shinto, Shugendo, Buddhist, Confucianist and Taoist aspects) is cancelled, but we will go individually, perform the cold water austerities under the waterfall and perform the ritual alone in the forest.
I went for a hike today–grateful that is still allowed–and put on my mask each time I met others. Most people also go off the trail to pass at a distance. We shop about one third as often as before.
Ultimately, we will see whether or not this will be effective.
It is not true that South Korea is “as democratic as the west”. Until the mid 1980s it was a ruthless fascist military dictatorship where one junta member could, and did, torture another to death in the basement of the presidential palace, and where one junta member could, and did, shoot another to death across the dinner table. Forty years of such a dictatorship leaves marks that cannot be erased in a period that is still less than another forty years.
Y is the USA and UK not bothered,about the COVID deaths ?
Could it be that they want it ? Who are the dead ? The dead are the pensioners,and the persons,who are fatally sick.dindooohindoo
Posit No.1
Assuming that these persons,had a residual life of 15 years,and we can assume that,by August,2020,there will be around 600000 dead in the West.
The pension to a pensioner would not be less than 12,000 USD per annum, on an average,at the minimum.In addition, the medical and other social costs,on an aged pensioner,would be not less than another 8,000 USD per annum.
If they die,then on 6,00,000 people,if the West saves 20,000 USD per annum,you net USD 12 Trillion,PER ANNUM
One could argue that the US Fed just printed,the USD 12 Trillion – but now it need not.The Youth in the west,had to work at high rates of tax and deductions – to finance the aged pension and health care benefits – which ultimately,led to outsourcing.
The scam would be shocking,if the dead,had no insurance ! That would be telling ! If 6,00,000 are dead,with insurance and an average insurance claim,of USD 1,00,000 – then you have a bomb – to wipe out the insurers.
Posit No.2
Large number of services and industries,in the west,will die out.That will release labour and reprice resources and rents – to drastically lower costs – and that will make,”Make in USA”,viable
How will the state finance the loss of tax revenue and GDP.Ultimately,the state will have to demonetise the deposits, in banks, of the westerners.Simple ! The USA will not be able to demonetise the PRC holdings of US T-bills – not even if the PRC sinks a US aircraft carrier in the South China Sea.
Posit No.3
All the nations who borrowed loans from PRC – will now force the PRC to do debt write offs.That will be a huge loss to the PRC,after the manufacturing shift from PRC to West.If 200 million people are unemployed in PRC – then you have Tiananmen – Part 2.
Of Course,the PRC could also force the IMF and the WB,to waive loans – but the harm to the PRC,will be done 1st.
Posit No.4
Trump postpones the US Polls,as people cannot stand in queues and no electioneering is possible – and he has the cure – and by September,the pensioners are dead – death rate and infections rates drops ….. who is the gainer ? If Trump is winning – Putin will stay calm – else,he might attack Eastern EU.If Trump is winning – then it will be the last chance for PRC to annex Taiwan and Vietnam – and make Trump lose face. But the odds of PRC action is medium.
Posit No.5
With massive unemployment in the West – the migrants will exit.Asians were made to clean toilets – that is their worth.They will exit.That will solve the migrants problem,rents and property rates will fall,labour will reprice,and the Westerners,will have to,start to work
The West has to take a BIG PICTURE view.South East Asia and Indian and Nepal ,are over populated,and there is no humanity there.There is no sentience,in the “so called humans”.They are robots – and 80% of them,have to die.Their time is over – they are obsolete, a dead weight,and a burden on earth.This will de-price the resources sector,lower demand,and solve the environment problem,forever.
Africans have been exploited,for at least ,2000 years – and they deserve,many more chances.
There are 3 simple steps
Are the “so-called humans” – having a sentience – depending on their “individual and collective actions”
If not,then they are “robots”
It is time to “terminate the robots”