The World We Have Lost

[thujone]

This is an awesome essay on the history forgotten by the West and how the power balance of the world is shifting back to the seats of power that existed before the rise of the West, worth reading!

http://www.historytoday.com/peter-frankopan/world-we-have-lost

 

[swilow]

Really interesting article thujone, thanks for that

Its a different perspective that I am going to explore further, hopefully tomorrow with a stoned wikipedia trip. I'll if I have anything to add.

But I am reading, and have been reading for years, a lengthy history of Tibet. Its always amazed me, the depth of unknown history, the great and lowly people that have existed everywhere doing 'important things', and we have such a narrow focus.

I guess the time we live in is reminding us just how narrow that focus has been, and maybe to our detriment...