Three-quarters of humanity have not yet entered the era of the real.
Evidence
Three-quarters of the human race have not yet entered the era of what we are pleased to call “the real.” Furthermore, even within the West, ever since the development of modern mass media, and their introduction on a mass scale into cultural production, and their impact on the audiences for cultural products, we have witnessed the undermining of the absolutism of “the real” of the great discourses of realism, and the familiar realist and rationalist guarantees, the dominance of certain types of representational form, etc. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 718
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
- XREF: Connects to postcolonial and global-south critiques of Western theory’s universal claims.