Re: [nukkad] The decay of civilisation

["Dr.M.C. Gupta" <>]

[This message contained attachments that have been removed.]


Should or can civilizations be ranked in a low-high order? From the
perspective of the "high" or the "low"? Who shall judge whom? Why judge? Did
not Jesus say: Judge not, that ye may not be judged? Why can't there be
different civilizations [indeed, as they are], with equal respect and staus,
rather than in a hierarchical model?

It is impossible to separate religion from civilization. Let us refer to the
religio-cultural combination as a sector. It is this clash of civilizations
that is the bane of today's world. The white-west-christian, WWC sector
believes in its own supremacy over the BEM, brown-east-muslim sector, and
the political system of the latter. The BEM vows to resist WWC by all
available means, including jihad and terrorism. In addition, both WWC and
BEM target the NBS, non-book sector [Those whose religion does not flow from
the primordial book common to Jews, Christians and the Muslims].

It is a pretty threesome that the three sectors make:

WWC against BEM and, in a subtle way, against NBS

BEM against WWC and NBS

NBS against none of the two but attacked by both, one more than the other.



* *

·         * SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON, the Eaton Professor of the Science of
Government and Director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies
at Harvard University, published in 1993 in the summer issue of "Foreign
Affairs" an article titled CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS, which was the product of
the Olin Institute's project on "The Changing Security Environment and
American National Interests." He was foreign policy aide to President
Clinton. Huntigton later wrote a book bearing the same title.*

·         * In essence, the clash of civilizations boils down to clash of
religions.*

·         *Huntigton makes some serious and forceful arguments in his book,
such as:*

*1. Modernization does not mean Westernization.*

* 2. Western-style capitalistic democracy is not necessarily the best and
many other "civilizations" continue to thrive under radically different
social models. These civilizations frequently feel deeply offended and
physically threatened by the notion that they will one day all be
Western-style democracies.*

*CONCLUSION [Mine]--One needs to seriously consider as to what extent the
desire of the Western powers to thrust their concepts of modernization and
capitalist democracy down the throats of people on the opposite side of the
globe is responsible for the spread of terrorism and the anti-West attitude
of the terrorists—all this happening in the matrix of different religious
beliefs and practices.*

MCG
19 March 2008
==================================================


On 3/19/08, Anna Morawska  wrote:
>
>
>
> Ravi Menon pisze:
>
> >
> > Anna Morawska pisze:  :))))
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Wow! Impressed! :)
>
> [...]
> > We could also be blinded by the very same glasses we try to use to
> > perceive it or bask in the glory of our past which is probably the
> > first reasons for decay.
> [...]
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Agreed. It is bound to hold back rather than push forward, sooner or
> later. Add to this the oppressive social rules, which in a way preserve
> the tradition and prevent the deeper decay from being seen. I think the
> examples of this mechanism at work can be found anywhere between the two
> poles.
>
> [...]
> I guess I am rambling. I don't know if i answered your
> > question, perhaps not but its a beginning
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Well, I don't think it can be answered unequivocally. For the reasons
> you mentioned, at least. I was just interested in the criteria and how
> they are chosen and used. So thanks for your contribution.
>
> And what about HIGH civilisation? How would you define the qualities
> that make a civilisation high?
>
> Best,
> Anna.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Dzwon tanio w Swieta!
> kliknij >>>  http://link.interia.pl/f1d62
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> NUKKAD ought to be the only study of a prince. - Max Tough (nukkad member)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> To join/leave, use the form at:
> http://www.mumbai-central.com/nukkad/#options
> This list is archived at:
> http://www.mumbai-central.com/nukkad/archive.html
>
>


-- 
Prof. M C Gupta
MD (Medicine), MPH,  LL.M.,

Advocate & Health and Medico-legal Consultant

mcgupta44@gmail.com
www.writing.com/authors/mcgupta44
http://mcgupta44.blogspot.com/

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
NUKKAD ought to be the only study of a prince. - Max Tough (nukkad member)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------


------------------------------------------------------------------------------
To join/leave, use the form at: http://www.mumbai-central.com/nukkad/#options
This list is archived at: http://www.mumbai-central.com/nukkad/archive.html