I don’t disagree with the idea that we should view India’s ideas skeptically, and moreso because its people are so miserable.
But I will point out that India once held one of the most advanced and prosperous civilizations on the planet, a society that was primitive by our standards but overwhelmingly superior to everything else at the time.
And that society existed for longer than Western Civilization has.
If, as I suspect, Western Civilization is in the process of destroying itself, what remains after the length of time that’s passed since India’s golden age may well resemble India as it is now.
Dinosaurs used to be symbols of obsolescence and failure, but by evolutionary standards they were far more successful than humans have been. Or even mammals, for that matter.
Let us not be quick to discard Indian mental techniques as dinosaurs.
I don’t disagree with the idea that we should view India’s ideas skeptically, and moreso because its people are so miserable.
But I will point out that India once held one of the most advanced and prosperous civilizations on the planet, a society that was primitive by our standards but overwhelmingly superior to everything else at the time.
And that society existed for longer than Western Civilization has.
If, as I suspect, Western Civilization is in the process of destroying itself, what remains after the length of time that’s passed since India’s golden age may well resemble India as it is now.
Dinosaurs used to be symbols of obsolescence and failure, but by evolutionary standards they were far more successful than humans have been. Or even mammals, for that matter.
Let us not be quick to discard Indian mental techniques as dinosaurs.