This self-flagellation is charming but pointless. My concern is that the East has so completely adopted Western culture and ideas to the exclusion of that origi

This self-flagellation is charming but pointless. My concern is that the East has so completely adopted Western culture and ideas to the exclusion of that originating within itself that local customs, traditions, languages etc will probably be dead in another century. When I left school, I knew that there were three philosophers in the world: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. Exposure to Indian thought was completely absent in an Indian school because the system is run by bureaucrats who ape the West. The white man left India, but he left in place millions of brown men who think exactly like he did to this day. Diversity of skin color won over diversity of culture and thought. Fixing this is far more urgent than whatever the intellectual onanism prevalent in Western academia and media concludes needs fixing.