“Western civilization is like the ourobouros, the snake that swallows its own tail. It is eating itself.”
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“Western civilization is like the ourobouros, the snake that swallows its own tail. It is eating itself.”
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In the interests of full disclosure I am a non European Muslim.
As one non European philosopher put it ” Your (Modern Western) civilization will commit suicide by her very own dagger!”
(He penned this about a century ago.)
Shame, what a world it could have been!
What we think of the West is toast.