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laodan discovered 11 months ago- Nourished by the sap bubbling from our civilizational roots. by myself on Crucial Talk
It's like a given for all of us that people of different civilizations are and behave very differently. We all inherited stereotypes about "the other" but once we start to better know people from another civilization it seems that those differences are fast melting away. In "the other" we discover a human as ourselves. But is this the real thing happening or is it only a mirage given by the picture of our perception in our heads? In this post I posit that civilizations imprint a subtle code of behavior within societies that reflects upon individual attitudes. This civilizational code remains largely ignored, for, to decode it you would need to understand the axioms upon which civilizations have been built originally. My plan is to illustrate the working of such a code, in people's daily lives, in China and in Europe (valid also in its geographic extensions). The following expands on my last post Loss of certainty and the purpose of life?". Nourished by the sap bubbling from our civilizational roots. A longer article of mine on Crucial Talk. - The world has witnessed a forking into civilizations rooted into animism versus civilizations rooted in the word of simple foundational stories detached from realities. - We unconscientiously see and understand everything through the axioms of our civilization that lay buried deeply in our unconscious. - In the West we understand thing in dualistic terms. The good guy versus the bad guy etc... But the axioms of our civilization are particularly poor at helping us devise pragmatic strategies in our daily lives (food, health, beliefs, change,...) - The axioms of their civilization give the Chinese a more pragmatic outlook on life. Those axioms are indeed inscribed in what happens in their daily lives, food and health for example which gives the Chinese a direct framework of reference for undertaking a pragmatic action. - Religious belief in China is thus more than anything else an opportunistic way of handling momentary uncertainties in the comfort found in belonging to a closely knit community.
- Nourished by the sap bubbling from our civilizational roots. by myself on Crucial Talk
