Vince,

The problem with your method, arguing the history and the people, is it is such a complex, multifaceted and effectively infinite debate, that it simply becomes an issue of who can shout the loudest and longest. Which is those who already have the money and the power.

You need to go for the underlaying concepts. That reality is that binary of nodes and networks, organisms and ecosystems, particles and fields.

The West is predicated on the the monolith, from monotheism to globalism. All of humanity as one big unit, with the Chosen at the top. Whether it's the Pope, or the Davos crowd. Everyone under that and it's divide and conquer.

What the East is currently working toward, is a global network. Those sovereign nations working together, as one larger ecosystem. Harmonization, rather than some global synchronization.

Nature rather than culture. This is one time in history the whole framework is cracking and it will be the only time to really start over again.

The absolute is the essence from which we rise, not an ideal from which we fell.

The light shining through the film, than the images on it.

The light goes to the future, the images go to the past.