[link|http://www.denbeste.nu/|And they would've gotten away with it too, if not for us meddling Yanks!]

Excerpt:

On an international scale, Green is very sensitive to anything remotely resembling imperialism. We've all heard the litany from those opposing the war on Iraq; the U.S. is just being an imperialist bully. However, Green's desire for equality and diversity can go too far, becoming pathological and destructive. The desire to promote diversity and create equality can be perverted into an ideology that attempts to reduce everything and everyone to the lowest common denominator. (Ken Wilber, a prominent philosopher in consciousness studies, calls this the "mean green meme", or "MGM".) This means (among other things) that successful, powerful nations like the U.S. must be deconstructed, and poor, "victimized" nations like Iraq must be propped up; the "playing field" must be leveled in the interests of diversity. The MGM becomes trapped in a vicious retro-Romanticism, glorifying the nobility of (for example) the "Arab Traditionalist" culture -- never mind that that Red/Blue culture exhibits all the typical Red/Blue problems, stuff that Green would never tolerate in its own culture!

In short: since the U.S. and (to a lesser extent) Europe are the most powerful cultures on the planet today, the MGM typically assumes a very simple mantra: Everything Western is bad, everything non-Western is good.

I say:

All ways of perceiving the world are binary at the core, whether their proponents have the honesty to admit it or not. They just draw the line along different axes is all.