Hi Christopher
I don't know. I really don't except that I feel our world is really quite
sick. Something is seriously wrong. from a chinese philosophical perspective,
something is out of balance.
You know, you try to finish the phd, and then when you finish it, you ask
yourself what is it got to do with children dying of hunger, girls and women
being abused, wars, generations of people without hope, nothing absolutely
nothing. At the moment of despair and helplessness, you try to make up
meanings... try to make yourself feel better that you have not wasted your
time. Then you tell yourself, like the ancient chinese philosophy teaches us.
If you want to change the world, you have to bring change within yourself. And
yourself is never alone, a chinese individual is always social. I am who I am
related to. Changing myself involves changing the community that I am in. And
then you see what you want to change, you talk about it, you serve as a
counter-discourse. And that is a beginning. A beginning of change. Does this
sound eastern to you?
Rosan
Christopher Kueh wrote:
> HI Rosan,
>
> You said: 'the world is in need of a counter-discourse to balance, not
> replace, the
> dominating western discourse'.
>
> Can you explain more on 'counter-discourse' and 'western discourse'? If to
> balance western-discourse, what of it that we are to balance? Is there also
> such thing as 'estern discourse'?
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