Over the last 400 years, the western world has made enormous advances in all areas of science and art. The east has stagnated or as best, has copied the western methods.
The direct consequence of this dominance of the west over east, has been a weakening of the value system that the east had constructed through ages. The eastern languages have deteriorated and their expressive power has diminished.
The east must rise again. But not by copying western methods. The limitations of the western technologies are showing themselves more and more. Resource depletion, global climate change, and rampant unemployment are showing the limits of western methods for economy, industry and production of goods and services.
It is time for new paradigms to be offered. New ways of doing science, and technology. New cultural normals, new forms of Art, and new mathematical and scientific languages.
This time, we have to pay the price for respecting the earth's ecosystem and the earth's limitation on resource exploitation.
But above all, we have to come up with a new basis for understanding and dealing with human nature. The west has one over-riding philosophy, that human beings are simply slightly more advanced animals, and just like you can train a horse by rewarding it and make it perform tasks,
you can exploit and employ human beings by providing monetary rewards and "educate" them,
by conditioning their behavior.
I believe, this is beneath humanity. We should start a debate on what positive aspects of humanity
have been neglected. We should feed into the hunger for creativity and the thirst for knowledge,
and the desire for dignity and respect. We also have to create new social systems whose goals are
to bring people closer together rather than controlling human relations for the material benefit of
other entities.
The direct consequence of this dominance of the west over east, has been a weakening of the value system that the east had constructed through ages. The eastern languages have deteriorated and their expressive power has diminished.
The east must rise again. But not by copying western methods. The limitations of the western technologies are showing themselves more and more. Resource depletion, global climate change, and rampant unemployment are showing the limits of western methods for economy, industry and production of goods and services.
It is time for new paradigms to be offered. New ways of doing science, and technology. New cultural normals, new forms of Art, and new mathematical and scientific languages.
This time, we have to pay the price for respecting the earth's ecosystem and the earth's limitation on resource exploitation.
But above all, we have to come up with a new basis for understanding and dealing with human nature. The west has one over-riding philosophy, that human beings are simply slightly more advanced animals, and just like you can train a horse by rewarding it and make it perform tasks,
you can exploit and employ human beings by providing monetary rewards and "educate" them,
by conditioning their behavior.
I believe, this is beneath humanity. We should start a debate on what positive aspects of humanity
have been neglected. We should feed into the hunger for creativity and the thirst for knowledge,
and the desire for dignity and respect. We also have to create new social systems whose goals are
to bring people closer together rather than controlling human relations for the material benefit of
other entities.
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