In Western Europe of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the idea of a unified civilization (civilization in the singular), which would embody in itself the destiny of all mankind, was first conceived. This destiny consisted in the overcoming of tradition and traditional values; and thus, it swept away the very foundation of the sacred civilizations that existed in that period. They meant nothing more than backwardness (from the modern West), a set of prejudices and false idols.
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Article 75: Coemergent Good & Evil
So, we think the real question is – in this stark new post-2020 reality what does “pro-Russian” (or pro-American, or pro-any state anywhere) even mean any more?
Article 71 New World: A different take on Diversity
Suggestion: Oriental polities now assuming a leading role in this next phase of world development should consider taking their cultural synthesis of Daoist, Confucian and Buddhist mores as a foundation for modern societies to foster experience of sacred reverence for life and Nature
About High Culture – a comment
But facing the multipolarists are the unipolarists. However this is not so much the so-called Outlaw US Empire, a hegemonic nation state based in a geographical location, or a race of ‘Anglo-Saxons,’ as a system, a way of doing things. Some called it technicity, I believe, or more simply a technocracy. Whatever it is called, we may soon all find ourselves digitally bound together in some sort of post nation state One World system, and quite possibly the same people and nations advocating multipolarity will take us down that road too.