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	it did inspire nationalist sentiments		it did inspire nationalist sentiments
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	Nations movement of the 20th century. In the developing		Nations movement of the 20th century. In the developing

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[[Category:Memes]]
Finally, while [[Transhumanist]]s and [[Preservationist]]s
fought their ideological war on Earth and in deep space, a
third movement gained momentum in the developing
world. The so-called “Majority Cultures” movement had
its roots in Mao-Communism and the Non-Aligned
Nations movement of the 20th century. In the developing
world, it encouraged the rejection of Western cultural ideas
and consumer goods, along with the development of
indigenous folkways. The movement claimed that
Western ideas were inherently anti-democratic, since they
held dominance in world affairs all out of proportion to the
numbers of people living in the Western nations. Justice
and democracy demanded that non-Western cultures dominate
the world’s political and economic systems. (The
point that democracy and the notion of the “public will”
were essentially Western inventions was generally
ignored.)

Meanwhile, the movement also attained some popularity
in the developed nations themselves, mostly in academia
and among disaffected youth. Academics who
embraced the movement called for an end to the dominance
of “hierarchical, linear, logocentric, scientistic”
modes of thought. They went beyond even the Preservationist
ideal in their rejection of almost all scientific
inquiry.

While the Majority Cultures movement
failed to set off the same kind of social
upheaval as the Transhumanists or Preservationists,
it did inspire nationalist sentiments
in many parts of the world. As the 2060s
came to a close, many developing
nations used the movement to drive
their own “independence struggles,”
rejecting the influence of Western-dominated
world institutions and multinational
corporations. Many in the developed world
were inspired by the movement to withdraw
from Western society, forming independent
communes or moving to the developing
countries.