Westerners walk the Earth with the presumption that only Western civilization matters when engaged in the multilateral discourse of nations. A false awareness of the world is created when one narrative attempts to compete and dominate over others. The path to modernization is considered one and the same with industrialization. The prime distinction between both arrives in terminologies supporting semantics. The former commands greater relevance when compared to the latter; however, both are associated with trends supporting globalization. A coercive narrative arises which maintains that to acquire modernity, Westernization must become part of an underdeveloped nation’s cultural conscience. A battle of ideas leads to a crash course with tradition where worlds of old are challenged by worlds of new.
A paradigm for industrialization is defined as the acquisition of national autarky. When Westernization is utilized systematically from the top down, the international community is eventually condemned to a state of atrophy where hegemony is justified by applications of an ideologically inspired school of intellectualism. One of the highest selling points of Westernization is articulated through calls to democracy. As long as national governments prove their allegiance to the West, local basket-cases are established where the distribution of aid is exploited as that high bargaining chip to satisfy international obedience for localized power. A third world democracy is generally fashioned as a united force mobilized for the benefit of its people. It is simply presumed that as long as nations are democratic, they are free which creates an oversimplification of fact.
Dictators are naturally unpredictable and hide under the bandwagon of democracy to preserve power by pleasing their geo-political minders. When the same species of dictator acquires too much geo-political ambition, marginalization ensues which is threatening to nations at the edge of the developmentally challenged spectrum. Dictatorial pariah states are made at the expense of their people which enters into dangerous territory where state crimes are hurled against humanity. Why cannot nations develop on their own terms by breaking up barriers to intellectual property that make modern infrastructure possible? Few in the West bother to make any mention of the need for the infrastructural development of nations through the multilateral dissolution of intellectual property law.
A reality where wholesale top down economics reinforced by longstanding debt is reversed to afford developmentally challenged nations the ability to modernize on their terms at their own capacity. Peace prevails when the distribution of intellectual and infrastructural equity is non-predatory in practice.
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