>>520961041
No, it's different over here, all the people I have cited you don't really make an exceptional amount of cash, for the most part is enough to make's meet end but remember our social systems aren't as good as yours (yeah), or indeed EU, so by the end of the day don't expect a decent pension once you retire, this is the reason why we still cluster around our extended families, this has been the rule for most of human existence, only during the Long Peace you truly had the sort of economy and social programs to sustain western levels of individualism and we all know the machine isn't going to sustain it for much longer unless some truly outstanding technological breakthroughs (and social reforms) are achieved.
Personally I think Western Civilization can still achieve such feats, in truth the core reason of my support for your geopolitical primacy is that, your faustian technologies, both machines and method, as Spengler would said, Technic, that's why, at a personal level, I am willing to put up with you killing global southerners, even collateral, in the great scale of things at an astronomical level we as a species barely have a slim chance of survival and most of it is on NATO countries and their allies and associates, against, say, a comet, such as Shoemaker, or a solar flare, your technologies are more valuable than all the children in the Third World.
That and your western christian-derivated humanism, something the chinese don't have despite all their efforts to challenge you, they care too about human survival, but they don't have the cultural basis to care about the individual and, of course, make the best of individuals come with innovation, it's even worst for the russians, as they have failed both as asians and westerners, all these cultures aren't developing technologies due a cultural need, they are making technologies to challenge you.