domenica 4 luglio 2021

Irrationality of the world

 I read on the "conomist" that the indian writer Amitav Gosh says that global change is a fundamental problem for the West because it challenges the Western idea that the worl is rational and predictable. Fantaastic! We need no more to worry for the consequenece  of our insane action on the biosphere, becuase iclimate change is not our responsability but a consequence of the irrationality and unpredactability of the world. A negationist of climate change (they are rare now) can ask nothing better. And I don't wont to be essentialist, but I am afraid that these untenable positions are not a conseuqneces of personal ideas of Ghosh, but are more basically rooted in the Indian culture, this world that fascinates us even on the left (see the Beatles) as an escape from Western Thought but that, notwithstanind its immense deepness is fundamentally extreme right. It is perhaps not a case that Hitler chose a symbol for his party an Indian symbol (an universal symbol actually, but Hitler was fascinated by buddhism and took the swastika from that religion where it plays an important role).