Dominance of Western culture is robbing us of solutions from other cultures

Western culture is not a monolithic entity. And in fact, it is not even western.

In Europe when we learn history we start with Mesopotamia and Egypt.

I find myself deleting "western" from "western civilization" a lot lately.

Chris Lasch's "Culture of Narcissism" applies to the 1970+ US, Ancient Rome, Heian and Tokugawa periods in Japan. The CCP would like to think it has the cure but I am certain China has the disease too.

Like child raising without yelling and without timeouts. That's just one example.

for reference, the Inuit have a different and valid approach (that someone on HN apparently disapproved of) https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/03/13/6855333...

Genuinely disgusted that other cultures' approaches were seen in a negative light. Especially when they can inform and be applied elsewhere.