Saturday, 11 October 2008

Empire of Yin - Part 2: The Persistent Blindness of Superiority

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Hieronymus Bosch, The Seven Deadly Sins; Vanity – circa 1475-1480

 

The seer

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As a tyke, I sat in Catechism classes wearing the red neckerchief and Karl Marx pin of the socialist Young Pioneers, with Christ crucified on one wall and an Antichrist crucifier, Konstantin Rokossovsky, on the other. Perhaps this is why, fifty years later, I feel that life in the West is a moveable feast on a ship of fools.

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