Under the sociological implications, there is another distinction that seems subconsciously elemental to the conflict and that is the modern world seems all about distinctions, quantifications, monetization, incorporation, specialization and eventually everyone is speaking different languages, even when it’s the same tower. It from bit.

While the religious, or at least spiritual viewpoint, both Western and Eastern, is more monist. Trying to find how it is all connected and universal, even if the models are a bit threadbare.

It’s not like this modern, technocratic belief system has the bigger picture figured out, even if in studying the details, they can give us atom bombs and smart phones. The economic model certainly didn’t budget for pandemics, in the last quarter, or the next.

Cheers.