26th March 2009, 02:56 PM
Murder, theft, rape and slavery are not and never been practised solely by Europeans, trad or otherwise: sadly most known human populations are guilty or have been at some time in their past. If it is a result of the discovery of new worlds (a mutual discovery, arguably?) how is it post-colonial?
I'd also say that the quest for knowledge, either personal or collective, could be tantamount to a form of spirituality, but is certainly one of the things that makes us human, and to me at least could almost be described as sacred. To sacifice this, a source of knowledge, to a "belief system" would be an act of vandalism, tantamount to sacrilege.
I'd also say that the quest for knowledge, either personal or collective, could be tantamount to a form of spirituality, but is certainly one of the things that makes us human, and to me at least could almost be described as sacred. To sacifice this, a source of knowledge, to a "belief system" would be an act of vandalism, tantamount to sacrilege.