Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

FROM ELSEWHERE – REVIEW

By researching art, legal, economic, monetary, and technological history, I’m aware of indian inventions in mathematics, as well as such things as ‘Damascus Steel’ being an indian invention. And even fewer people are aware that india produced secular political thought, and like the chinese, it’s more practical than aspirational and ideal as is the european mediterranean tradition. We make a catastrophic mistake of overestimating the contributions of the middle east because of their early invention of the state, writing, and organized religion, and because our religious western heritage of having a semitic religion imposed pon the european people by byzantine force, and church deceit. So not only should we spend more time on chinese and indian and european history, we should spend less time on middle eastern. Why? They constantly collapsed because of an economy of taxing world trade routes rather than of producing themselves, and because of that failure, a failure to build trust among tribal peoples, whereas europeans, indians, and chinese succeeded. As for india, the equally interesting question is why are the people of india still strangely obsessed with their religion; why they hold onto the pseudoscience of indian origins; why their thought leadership died out, and why india stagnated earlier than even china. That said, current conditions are obvious. Islam remains an enemy of india, china, and european civilization. And there is nothing wrong with india that six generations of one child policy for the lower classes would not solve.