Overcoming ..

In overcoming and adapting to this new world of chaos and suffering the destination we are seeking is difficult to predict but it is important that our starting point clearly be redefined. The debate between tradition and modernity will have to be reshaped into a significantly different one where the opposing tendencies are between those who are “externally” driven by the desire to control, own and convert and those who are “inner” driven and whose desire is to discover, understand and involve. If the inner driven culture becomes the organising principle of the 21st century then some interesting and surprising alliances and allegiances will begin to form.

On the one hand those who seek to control, own and convert will be looked upon as the regressive forces of the global environment. It will not only include the fundamentalists who seek to make the world uniform based on some man created creed or revelation but also the arch modernisers who wish to mould the world according to one model of development calling it falsely progressive and imposing it on all. They are the new alliance of regression and in their opposition to each other have become strikingly the same.