Inability to break free of ideological tribalism

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on war and peace

aurocafe.substack.com/p/sri-aurobind…

https://twitter.com/ujmpondy/status/1784421626710295020?t=4wydOX-ypB4PKGy3OcUvdg&s=19

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞: "𝐀𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬."

A review of Le Monde's article "Auroville, India's utopian town threatened by disenchantment and Hindu nationalism" #Auroville

unitedtrueindia.blogspot.com/2024/05/blog-p…

https://twitter.com/trueseek/status/1787472732709609531?t=sRNA51yafzZXrPqKbfdxkw&s=19

No. Modi is not the problem. He is only the current face of the larger problem. Because he is a mere product of #PseudoHindutva ideology of the @RSSorg. Personalising a larger problem shields it from scrutiny and distracts from finding solutions to it. What will you do when some other product of RSS succeeds Modi?

A wrong diagnosis leads to erroneous treatment that would not only not cure the disease but may also create placebo effect lulling into disastrous complacency. Targeting individual(s) for a larger problem is an erroneous diagnosis which may give transient respite but it will never solve the problem. It is this placebo effect that makes countries to target terrorists rather than fighting the source of terrorism to eliminate. Why do you think Islamic terrorism flourishes globally even after neutralising thousands of terrorists? As late Sitaram Goel said long ago countries are saving the fundamentals of the problem while scaring the fundamentalists. The message in the video shared in the quoted post is in that genre.

The real fight should be against the two dishonest ideologies namely #PseudoSecularism of Le-Lis and #PseudoHindutva of Sanghis each falsely claiming as #Secularism and #Hindutva respectively while comprehensively destroying India.

https://twitter.com/MNageswarRaoIPS/status/1787676914334810428?t=HmXkxGPNgL9AOBPzj-bHpw&s=19

No one is going back to utopia that supposedly existed 3000 years back. That's a fact but everyone's entitled to his or her share of delusions.

https://twitter.com/entropied2223/status/1787005925875724460?t=ZOB8o365zHlIu8DC2kG8LA&s=19

I very strongly recommend this detailed overview and comparison of three integral and evolutionary thinkers: Jean Gebser, Ken Wilber and Rudolf Steiner, with the occasional reference to Aurobindo:

The Evolution of Consciousness as a Planetary Imperative: An Integration of Integral Views. By Jennifer Gidley. INTEGRAL REVIEW 5, 2007

academia.edu/197841/The_Evo…

https://twitter.com/mbauwens/status/1788237005979082970?t=Qf_VrH9K7wqL0rkp32DMKA&s=19

An interesting effect of human conformism and #groupthink is the inability to break free of ideological tribalism and think for oneself. For this reason, even an intelligent empiricist like Jordan Peterson is compelled to self-righteously spout #climatedenialism garbage.

https://twitter.com/akazlev/status/1789071889383764464?t=istyJxOFCFUB7VJ6mJLkew&s=19

I refuse to accept the label #EcoFriendly at face value. You need independent audits with a composite system of declared benchmarks and methodology before it can carry that tag. Else it is just another fad to fool gullible idealists loaded with money and naivete

https://twitter.com/madversity/status/1790331765393125437?t=Nfwc3fzvjxO3Nwh_mDA1Sg&s=19

What malls need to learn from melas. My edit page piece for @EconomicTimes on why #retail and #realestate industries must think anew #realty
economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/et-com…

https://twitter.com/madversity/status/1790306355519406474?t=u3pyNQT69j5ZLv08hk5inQ&s=19

Inder S. Marwah argues Aurobindo Ghose drew on a nuanced reform Darwinism to criticize British imperialism and advance an alternative grounded in the Indian polity’s mutualism. #APSRNewIssue

ow.ly/YCq350Rpnbx

https://twitter.com/apsrjournal/status/1788908146901024810?t=yYBKfWKxuXM_6XSfIHe2aw&s=19

Wrote a blog about my experience in Matri Mandir, Auroville, Pondicherry. Go check it out!!!

jitesh117.github.io/musings/the-se…

https://twitter.com/Vatsakhushii/status/1787894160264949970?t=9uQiOyGYlwIaQOeSmvWDSw&s=19

Impersonal and Personal Aspects of Consciousness in the Universal Manifestation sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2024/05/11/imp… via @santoshk1

https://twitter.com/santoshk1/status/1789332130109202900?t=TlKP-9SyaaonYvwyg8PekQ&s=19

“Big History” article; only skimmed it but seems similar to my own comments on stages of cultural/noospheric evolution. I differ in having intelligence begin with the Cambrian explosion rather than Pleistocene hominins. The review of classic civilisations looks interesting.

https://twitter.com/akazlev/status/1789354429180719321?t=dcW0YnoGl-mY8kq8cnDt7w&s=19

𝗠𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 10 -  𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗢𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆

shrikantsoman.wixsite.com/divine-life/po…

𝗦𝗵𝗿𝗶𝗸𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻

shrikantsoman.org

srianandyoga.com

shrikantsoman.wixsite.com/divine-life

𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗯𝘆 𝗦𝗿𝗶 𝗔𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗼

𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗢𝗻𝗲 - 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿 25 - 10

_(𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗢𝗻𝗲 - 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿 25 - 9)

https://twitter.com/shrikant_soman/status/1789502250634883331?t=6d0dspQ4osjr55kk4oxlQQ&s=19

One aspect of Vedas is the symbolism which uses things around us to point towards the higher knowledge. Would recommend reading "Secret of the Veda" by Sri Aurobindo.

https://twitter.com/ayam_bhaskar/status/1789901713081586066?t=qVfoDbp54qfjNvcLSrdYQw&s=19

Aaron French on Max Weber and Rudolf Steiner

https://twitter.com/ThouArtThat/status/1790079346142585198?t=jBq5aUozlT9eSimXetbTmA&s=19

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