avy on Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:35:12 +0200 (CEST) |
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The crisis is not Euro-centric as it is made out to be. It is global. The crisis does not seem to affect Asia as much as human life is cheap fodder in that segment of humanity. The crisis is also not materialistic or fiscal as made out to be, it is a spiritual crisis. There seems to be no solution to the spiritual crisis from the Eurocentric point of view with the deepest aspects and values of Christianity having been denied and defaced consistently. Even as the Judaic notion of Just Law and the Greek philosophical notions of Quality and Moderation have been chucked into the dustbin of militarism and consumerism. As for the Asiatic spiritual solutions, they are multiple, mostly kaleidoscopic odds and ends, throwbacks to primitivism and animism and irrationalism or simply prescriptive of treating all crises as illusion or delusion and reducing the task of salvation to yet another selfish point of indulgence. There seems no way out of the global spiritual mess all of which is finally centred in the "self" of each individual, each tribe, each ethnic group, each nation and any other human configuration you might want to name. Avy # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org