This meme promotes the capitalistic modernization theory that sees old traditions and pre-existing societies as “primitive” obstacles to overcome for economic growth, mass consumerism at the expense of the planet and anyone in it’s way.
Modern conservatism says “instead of tearing a fence down maybe it’s there for a reason” while relishing in the fear and seperation it creates
And many left-wing parties might say “let’s tear the fence and neighborhood down to build a factory for a new gizmo to sell”
What we need is to tear down fences to rebuild strong communities and human relations.
“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this, at a distance of roughly ninety million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet, whose ape descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. This planet has, or had, a problem, which was this. Most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small, green pieces of paper, which is odd, because on the whole, it wasn’t the small, green pieces of paper which were unhappy. And so the problem remained, and lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place, and some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no-one should ever have left the oceans.”
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
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