“Alright, but apart from:
The telephone
The internet
The automobile
Railroads
Airplanes
Satellites
Television
Movies
The polio vaccine
Eradication of Smallpox
Antibiotics
Hell, all modern medicine
The refrigerator
Central heat and air conditioning
The Diesel Engine
Nuclear power
Space exploration
Pretty much all major sports
Most music in the world today
The light bulb
home appliances
Electricity (as something useful rather than just lightning)
Sewer systems
The green revolution in agriculture
All modern farm equipment
The material abundance brought by the Industrial Revolution
Democracy
AND The Rights of Man,
what has the West, EVER done for us?”
Other than even average people’s:
Food (fresh food year round, lots of meat and far more variety - not to mention ENOUGH food)
Entertainment (TV music, movies at your fingertips)
Travel (hop in a plane and go anywhere on earth in a day)
Healthcare (immunizations, antibiotics and hospitals.....he’ll, just think of dentistry)
Being beyond the wildest dreams of kings a few hundred years ago........what has the West brought the world indeed?