I regard myself as a champion of Western Civilization - the champion of Western Civilization. That being said, the whole idea of Western Civilization, or at least the Greek Miracle, is kind of a myth. The Greeks got their philosophy from India and their mathematics from Egypt and Mesopotamia. The whole picture has been distorted because the Greeks were white, and British colonialism was based on the Civilizing Mission, bringing culture to nonwhite nations. The book on this is The Shape of Ancient Thought, which, in my view, is the most important work published during my lifetime (excepting my own work, of course).
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