<Thats a ridiculous thing to say.>
That's an absurd thing to say.
Indian civilization goes far back. But living in the past isn't a very successful way of life.
In a globalized world, a lingua franca is essential to participation [in the more profitable parts of it]. English colonisation gave a huge advantage to those countries with English as their foundation. Not to mention the concept of property rights, laws and so on.
Unfortunately for India, they got rid of the British and kept the Karl Marx. Recently, they have made moves to get rid of the English language too, which would not be a smart move.
A language is simply a means of communication. Some people use it to form an exclusive club, but that's a short-sighted approach [though probably useful for avoiding NSA interception].
Forget the great civilization of India from eons past. It's today and next year that people live and the ways of times gone by are irrelevant. A Maharajah in Mysore might have got a great palace, but it's nothing but a museum piece now. The monuments around Washington are corroding with time. Eventually they'll be artifacts from a time of glory gone by.
Our aim, as the living descendants of all those great, glorious empires, is not to reconstruct an often mythical past, which is useless to us now, but to build our own great civilization here today. We are doing it right now, right here in cyberspace. Bit by bit, photon by photon, fibre by fibre, chip by chip, pixel by pixel. The neural net is spreading It's tendrils to every corner of the globe.
There is no stopping it. Ted Kaczynski, Osama, Mobs in Seattle and Genoa, Tribal Leaders, National Leaders, Military Might, are all doomed to fail. It's a law of nature unfolding. It's a tide. It's the river of consciousness.
Unstoppable [because the vast majority of people like their own river of consciousness and act to enhance it].
Mq
PS: Colinisation of Afghanistan will be good for Afghanistan. Colin is going to be the harbinger of civilization where barbarism has reigned supreme. |
