Pre-modern

Published on 31st December, 2015, on swarajyamag.com . The idea of subjective truth discomforts most people. They prefer objective truth. This is because of our conditioning, resulting from ‘scientific’ education. In objective truth, the truth exists outside us. We play no role in the truth. This structure, of excluding individual views, from the truth, is Abrahamic. God, and Truth, is located outside humanity. This became ‘modern’ thought as against ‘pre-modern’ thought that was located on fear. For the scientist, all things pre-modern are superstition. For the theist, religion is modern. Hence the yearning to show that religion is based on ‘scientific’ principles. But in the ..