For most of my life, I have watched the Third World supposedly emerge. Roads seemed to improve, universities multiplied, incomes rose, smartphones appeared, elections became more elaborate, and Western technology penetrated ever more deeply. The euphemism “emerging markets” came into use, carrying within it the assumption that eventual emergence was somehow baked into the cake.
Yet modernization and civilization are not the same process.
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