I’m wondering about the realization of joining the public parade. It is interesting from the global perspective, but alarming if you are on that boat as dysfunction creates chaos and collapse. I have an image of watching as the ship sinks.
An interesting awareness about the story of Afghanistan from their perspective, and the history of invasion by the British. The first time the West pierced the veil of Afghanistan’s separate universe was in 1839, followed by two more subsequent invasions, 1878, and again in 1919. Each time Britain failed. As the tale continues, something in the neural foundation persists in their tribal character, in spite of all that they have encountered from the West.
I see at their core something that remains intractable—a tribal family, a social dynamic of male domination. It is a matrix in its neurological responses to life. They seem to have been able to shield their consciousness from current psychological and national knowledge.
The character of the Afghan culture has held them to their tribal life and beliefs by literally denying literacy and rational education to all but a few—those who have had the circumstance of exposure and interaction with the global community, knowledge and history.
There seems to be a genetic embedding in this cultural shell that prevents their minds from allowing the rational universe into their Islamic freezer. The window to the world of modern life remains closed—locked out from learning and engaging, and thus experiencing ‘the opening of the mind to the knowledge of the universe’, having no access to the awakening that has arrived on a global scale to those who have access to this liberty.
It’s a tribal-matrix-behavioral-pattern captured in a closed framework of a past reality. What if the children of Afghanistan were given a ‘modern’ education, and protected from the lifelong drumming and hypnosis of religious belief and stereotyping of acceptance? What then?
I haven’t the knowledge, but one of the things I see might be a closed cultural window of belief, defending itself from an open, rational universe other than their dogmatic Islam that is hypnotically embedded so deeply in their psychic identities.
What’s alarming is their willingness to defend to the death their religious convictions—that it’s their duty and responsibility to defend it by killing anyone who won’t follow their neural-belief psychosis. How can the global community deal with this?
There is a serious volatility problem facing Afghanistan—having the organizational coherence and skills for doing what is necessary to engage with the global community. Knowing how to provide for their four-million tribal members, buried in what is known as their dysfunctional tribal past.
Questions of living nature, balance in consumption, functional collective coherence, goodwill, and functional consciousness to survive will all have to be answered.