Sunday, June 02, 2019

Asian post-liberalism

Asians have substantial second-mover advantages when it comes to liberalism. Their job then is to wrestle with liberalism (divorced from the Western historical experience), understand its impossibility within its own historical context, and bring about post-liberalism. The first stage is not even reached. Has this task even been recognized?

Note 165

Truth has always been sundered upon itself; form does not match content; and process (teleological and otherwise) is the groping for accomodation across a gap that is pragmatically bridged.