Ls 142: West Vs East

LS 142 West vs East

The West rose to world dominance due to their outlook in life and also growing conscience of superior mindset amongst their surroundings (the environment and animals), their Western counterparts as well as the rest of the world. This, I would say, is the backbone that paved the way to their dominance.

Yes, Jared Diamond’s theory of geographical luck and the emergence of guns, germs and steel as part, as reason for the growth of dominating civilisations around the world plays a huge part, I think, unconsciously, the West developed, evolved and realised that they can dominate and that they are superior to whomever they want in order to sustain their status as superiors. On the Youtube video based on Diamond’s book entitled, “Gun, Germs and Steel”, he had mentioned that after humans settled into small permanent villages, due to the geographic luck that originated at the fertile crescent (Middle East, Eurasia) and spread west and eastward, Western Civilisations got all the techniques, resources and innovations that weren't originally from them exploited and capitalised on it. With all these settlements happening around the world, through the worlds first granary, it showed that humans started to take control of how their food supply was made to sustain even longer. It did in fact, interrupt the normal cycle, accidentally controlling nature. Domestication soon arrived wherein humans started to take control of animals (large plant eating animals) to work for them aside from being another food supply. Europe was among the origins of the 14 ancestors of these domesticated animals. They learned that by controlling the leader of the heard, they could control the entire heard easily. They too learned how to control horses which was another advantageous tactic used to conquer the great Inca Empire later on. When villages grew, specialities and new skills, technology and fire emerged with it because in one way or another, humans were evolving as well as the dominating specie of the world. Amidst these innovative, new technologies sprawling and originating from the East, the Westerners got their hands on these and added and maximised its uses to their advantage. Soon enough, because of their geographic luck, Westerners growing conscience of superiority over their surroundings paved the way into battling amongst themselves who, among them, were the more dominating superior civilisation. If it wasn't for the rivals among the European powerhouses, their quest to conquer the entire world would have not taken place.

People, civilisations got greedy because they though they were the superior race thus should rule over every land they see. Guns and steel started to emerge out of necessity for daily life but more so, to be used as weaponry. An article I read by James Petras published on