Unbalanced Reporting
FOR those of you who saw my post of August 25th (‘Self-determination in an Increasingly Singular World’), concerning attempts to place the entire globe on the same historical footing and the consequences thereof, the stark reality of this situation is often demonstrated by the media’s approach to disasters.
To use one particular example, in the Autumn of 2017 news channels in Europe were dominated by events taking place in Houston. Whilst around 45 Texans were unfortunately killed during unprecedented weather conditions, as far as the rest of us are concerned we really need to apply a sense of perspective. Less than two weeks earlier, torrential rain in northern India, southern Nepal, northern Bangladesh and southern Pakistan saw 800 people lose their lives and around 24 million others affected. Over the course of several days, this figure rose to 1,200 people killed and 40 million others losing their homes.
In light of these remarkably divergent statistics, one has to question why the entire world was expected to concern itself with events in Texas to such a staggering degree. In its traditional role as a bastion of liberal-leftist distortion, The Guardian newspaper described this enormous disparity as an exercise in 'racism,' making reference to an old English media maxim which states that
“one dead in Putney equals 10 dead in Paris equals 100 dead in Turkey equals 1,000 dead in India equals 10,000 dead in China.”
However, whilst this scale may well have been applied in times past, the present fascination with Western-based events - or what some have described as 'First World problems' - has more to do with globalist attempts to present Europe and North America as collective pinnacles of civilisation and progress. In other words, it is as though we should expect people outside the West to die in huge numbers because they are simply too 'barbaric' and 'uncivilised' to know any better.
This, in my opinion, is a result of Western exceptionalism and yet the idea that it is based on 'racism' is incorrect in the sense that the modern Western ideal is itself centred on multi-racialism. Nonetheless, this ruling class attitude does remain supremacist in that the Occident is held up as an unimpeachable technological utopia towards which everybody living outside must continue to aspire. As those who lived through the collapse of the Iron Curtain found out, however, often to their cost, things in the so-called 'free world' are not quite as they seem.