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   @WaughheadRex
   > Plato and much of the downstream philosophy (western culture)

   Firstly, there was never was a "West". Plato and other Greek writers saw themselves as part of a Mediterranean civilisation, with no connection to anything going on in what we now think of as Europe;

   https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-there-never-was-a-west

   According to David Miles, to classical Greeks, Europeans were among the Keltoi; the barbarians to the north;

   https://www.hardtofind.co.nz/book/xxbbaa41566/The-Tribes-of-Britain

   @nicholas @icedquinn @phnt @p @silverpill @light