The Great Turning (05)

4. how did Modernity arise ?

 

 

Modernity did arise with the emergence of the paradigm of  “the reason that is at work in the transformation of money into capital”.

 

Western moment of madness at the end of Modernity !

I terminated my last article, dated 2022-03-25, with the following words :

"... to keep your sanity, and to avoid having your mind being captured by Western propaganda, I hope everyone stays as far as possible from the daily news about the fighting in Ukraine. To keep one's sanity one better remember that the daily news is a propaganda ploy to distract from the big picture… "

Is the Western paper-tiger on the verge of immolating itself ?

Never have I witnessed such a Western propagandist rage than around the question of Russia's military operation in Ukraine. It's nothing short of sickening and it begs the question "How on earth can otherwise reasonable people act and talk so far out of their normal selves ?". And where do they find the guts to shout in the face of the world that they are "the world community". Zhao Lizhang, the spokesperson of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, did not miss sticking the map of their "world community" under their noses:

Is the West taking an existential risk to remain the sole tiger on top of the mountain ?

Part 3, of my last article "Deal with it : Dualism drives the thinking of Western minds !", was titled "The mainstream media announces "The Globalization of White Supremacy". In it I stated the following :

Deal with it : Dualism drives the thinking of Western minds

For 30 years M. K. Bhadrakumar was an Indian diplomat. He is now retired and writes about "Indian foreign policy and the affairs of the Middle East, Eurasia, Central Asia, South Asia and the Asia-Pacific". His views are those of a humanist who has reflected during his entire life on how the last Centuries of Asian misery, at the hands of white Christian Europeans, are shaping the cultural contours of Eurasia in this 21st century.

Anxiety in this frightful Geopolitical moment...

In an article, titled "Iran-Russia hit maximum strategy", Pepe Escobar sums up the gist of the anxiety that characterizes the present Geopolitical moment :

“One of the crucial geopolitical questions of our time is how an emergent, supposedly Chinese hegemony will articulate itself. If actions speak louder than words, then Sino-hegemony looks loose, malleable and inclusive, starkly different to the US variety”.

 

First devastating societal blow in Late-Modernity (14)

Part 6.   The paradox of humanity’s predicament

6.1. Modernity, is the greatest achievement of humanity but it fosters life extinction

6.2. the shift in the governance-world leads to uncertainties

First devastating societal blow in Late-Modernity (13)

5. A gradual shift from a Western to an Eastern model of society

5.3. Covid-19 is a first fatal blow to Late-Modernity

Covid-19 did not collapse national economic systems as is portrayed in Western mainstream media. It was merely the catalyst that activated the clean-up of the many severe imbalances that had been accumulating since the nineteen-eighties which then exploded after the  great recession of 2007-2008 :