----- Original Message ----- From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <critical.montages at gmail.com>
Today, both the ideology of political liberalism and that of sexual orientations as transcultural and transhistorical universals are decidedly hegemonic, especially in the richest nations in the world, reinforced by the myth of "the West" (not so much the West as a historical construct as a fantasy of it) as the telos of human development.
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The latter itself being one of "the West's" fantasies.....