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THE ZEER

Addon B - The West

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Ditthi warning - this is a view. It is necessary to take a viewpoint concerning the world or we cannot act in that world, trying to understand how you relate to individual ditthis is a necessary part of life. In thezeer zandtao began this process of presenting views through his intro-visions of societal and human infrastructure. Starting with these infrastructures he was able to develop a path from awareness to purpose; without the infrastructures zandtao suggests that would not have been possible. On occasions he is forced to expand this viewpoint but as with the infrastructures he asks you to use your mindfulness and grapple with the view to try to understand - zandtao never asks you to believe anything he says without meticulous enquiry.

For societal infrastructure zandtao spoke of a system-for-the-rich. When we start to look at global activism it becomes necessary to consider the geographical location of this system-for-the-rich. Marx uses the word hegemony to describe a global system of patriarchy based in the US, some people call this imperialism. Other people see the system-for-the-rich as this hegemony or as imperialist. Prior to the ending of the 2nd world war this hegemony was also considered to be in Europe and prior to that dominated by European empires particularly the British empire including the Southern hemisphere of Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Following WWII the US developed an organisation NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation; some view NATO as the military arm of the hegemony, others see it as defensive. What is your view on these questions?

Countries in The West claim they are democracies - government-for-the-people, citing the electoral process as their reason for saying they are a peoples' government. Once elected these governments use taxpayers' money to fight wars. In the UK Blair fought a war against Iraq, it is now generally-accepted that the British people did not want this war. zandtao is of the view that Blair went to war against Iraq because Britain was a member of NATO, and the US leadership wanted the war; was this view true?

Such geographical connections to the system-for-the-rich are important to be clear about, please use your own mindfulness to develop a viewpoint. To summarise all of this viewpoint consideration zandtao simplifies it to the term “The West”.