> .. the mythology of unidirectional historical progress and inevitability of westernization for “barbarians” provided an ideological ground for #neoliberal experiments not only in the former Soviet states but around the globe. It is this interest in the global hegemony of the ideology of #westernization that led me first to the doctoral program in #CriticalMediaStudies at the University of Colorado at Boulder..
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/04/28/zelensky-celebrity-populist-pinochet-neoliberal/
#Ukraine #Zelensky #OlgaBaysha #NatylieBaldwin #Maidan

> There are many beautiful things in Japan,” he told his wife. “Why do they imitate Western things?” The answer, as he well knew, was in order not to be invaded, exploited or treated as “backward.”
> ... the last section, entitled Industrial Danger, contains a clear-eyed warning of the risks of Japan’s headlong rush to modernize.

- http://www.petertasker.asia/books/lafcadio-the-greek-the-man-who-dreamed-japan/
#LafcadioHearn #Japan #industrialization #Westernization #modernization #PeterTasker