Who Said What, Now?

Picture by Xavier Le Roy 

     ADBUSTERS IS GETTING CONFIDENT...AND MORE IDIOTIC.  Their latest article, 'Breaking the Chains of Modernity' written by Dustin Craun, bodly goes where Adbusters...well, usually goes.  This time, though, they've changed it up a bit.  The article is an homage to Eastern philosophy and is in total disdain for Western culture.  It seems to me this article is also not only a call for a shift in thought away from Western culture.  It is a call for a shift in thought to Islam, and an abandonment of the Judeo-Christian values at America's core.  
     The question becomes, then, is the author merely suggesting we look towards Eastern Philosophy, or will this suggestion be acted upon with force?  I fear that instead of a mere suggestion that we look towards a different ideology, this article foreshadows the kind of radical, forceful, and certainly not peaceful manner in which those at the core of the Occupy Wall Street movement have already called for a change in our culture.  I believe it was also an Eastern philosopher who said, "by their fruits, ye shall know them."

 References to Islam from the article:

"...we need to make what Walter Mignolo calls an “epistemic geopolitical move.  That demands a form of critique that is deeply engaged in what is known in Arabic as muhasabah, or self-examination..."

"As the Qur’an says, 'God does not change the condition of a people, until they change their own condition..."

"As the great Mystic philosopher Al-Ghazali put it in his masterwork of the inner sciences of Islam..."



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