lesbianchemicalplant:A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a de
lesbianchemicalplant:A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization.A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems is a stricken civilization.A civilization that uses its principles for tricky and deceit is a dying civilization.The fact is that the so-called European civilization—“Western” civilization—as it has been shaped by two centuries of bourgeois rule, is incapable of solving the two major problems to which its existence has given rise: the problem of the proletarian and the colonial problem; that Europe is unable to justify itself either before the bar of “reason” or before the bar of “conscience”; and that, increasingly, it takes refuge in a hypocrisy which is all the more odious because it is less and less likely to deceive.Europe is indefensible.Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 1955 [text pdf: here] -- source link