| Awaken Bharata |
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| Books By David Frawley |
| THE NEW MASKS OF COLONIALISM | |
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eventually created native incarnations of these communist leaders
and prophets like Mao and Ho Chi Minh, just as the Christians
created native saints in foreign lands in order to continue their
work of conversion with native help. Such Asian communists show a
model not of awakened Asia but of Asia in a Western mold, following
an alien intellectual idealism oblivious to its own spiritual
traditions.
Along with communism came more of Western intellectual culture and the decline of Asian intellectual systems. The intelligentsia of Asia read not Krishna, Buddha or Confucius or embraced its indigenous arts and culture but followed Western intellectual and artistic culture of Europe and America, particularly those thinkers who were leftists. When great modern thinkers arose in Asia outside of the European intellectual sphere, like Aurobindo or Vivekananda in India, they were rejected in favor of European thinkers or European based thinking, like Sarte or Freud. This resulted in an intellectual bankruptcy in Asia in which Asian thinkers have come to think that it is somehow enlightened to blindly imitate the latest trends in Western leftist thought as if this was beyond criticism or error and produce nothing original or insightful of their own. The alienated intelligentsia of India in particular prides itself in being more leftist than Western academia, and little interested in the native traditions of Asia, a trend started by Nehru himself. While it has been a fashion for Western intellectuals to look to Asian thought for an alternative to the limitations of Western culture, the intelligentsia of India would never follow suit. It remains against its local traditions, firmly rooted in a European ethos as much as a member of any colonial army ever was. |
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