I've been reading The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow lately and they shit on this so hard. The "epic individual liberty enlightenment values" that these types love to jerk off about were the result of cultural exchange between Europe and native North American civilizations, their notions of freedom and their critiques of European societies, as many of the European enlightenment philosophers themselves admitted in their own work.

To the extent that there was a "Western Culture" it was very specifically NOT about having individual liberty because you're supposed to obey authority, not do whatever you want like some godless heathen.

Then they genocided the native Americans, turned "individual liberty" into "owning private property" and claimed to have invented freedom

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