Diese Woche ist in unserem globalen und englischsprachigen Programm von Radio evolve Steve Brett zu Gast:

For the past 300 years or more, the West has become used to assuming

that our European and American way of seeing the world is the most 

progressive, most enlightened, and most objective way to see our global

reality. In fact, the Western perspective was not “merely” a perspective

but was considered to be objective reality. Western science and our

understanding of human rights and democracy are great achievements of

what we call the Enlightenment. But when one makes these superior

assumptions, then one does not really hear and see anyone else anymore.

One starts to become blind to the multitude of the human experience. In a

sense, as a culture, we become autistic, incapable of real relationship

and repetitively reinforcing a narrow, materialistic world.    

Steve Brett

lived not only as a British citizen for many years in India, in his

academic research in South Asian Studies, he is focusing on the impact

of British colonialism on India. Together with his partner, Mary Adams, he created the 3rd Space initiative. Through their website,

they  are initiating a dialogue between the civilizations, a dialogue

that allows us in the West to become aware of the shadows of our

dominant and dominating perspective and addresses the specific autism

that blinds us to truly meeting others and the world.

 

In this week’s Radio evolve, Thomas Steininger speaks with Steve Brett how to end the autism of the West.