Ramana,
Monotheism is a way to sterilize civilizational memory. We are looking only at the end result in the case of Canaan. Canaan's geo-significance is that it is the entry into Egypt. These false states/identities are set up at such crucial junctures - including Pakistan - and the consequences reverberate back to the master. The consequences are then mistaken for the initial attack.
We are looking at the end result. Canaan, Egypt (and Persia also) has as much relevance to Judaism as Sanskrit Bible has to Indian traditions. It is near impossible to find an English word in the Sanskrit Bible. There is no dearth of Praise of the Native Deity in Sanskrit Bible. But it is an illusory veneer.
Always look for phrases like Hope, Feel Good, Comical Tragedy, any incongruous juxtaposition of tragedy and comedy ie Charlie Wilson's War, Slumdog. That is the pure propaganda genre. This genre informs (and now forms the totality of) the western self-narrative.
Kubrick's 'Shining' is about the flashbacks, the memory which cannot be erased. We need extended discussion of that movie. In western reviews of that movie, you will see the immediacy of the movie dismissed by saying that it is about 'evil in general', about mankind's psychology, about man's inhumanity to man. Secularism and Enlightenment is such a discourse which generalizes away the incongruity or the persistence of the memory. The heathen is generalized away as quaint, "romantic", folky, festivals, etc.
Linearized interpretative history affords an illusionary organicity to the project.
Monotheism is a way to sterilize civilizational memory. We are looking only at the end result in the case of Canaan. Canaan's geo-significance is that it is the entry into Egypt. These false states/identities are set up at such crucial junctures - including Pakistan - and the consequences reverberate back to the master. The consequences are then mistaken for the initial attack.
We are looking at the end result. Canaan, Egypt (and Persia also) has as much relevance to Judaism as Sanskrit Bible has to Indian traditions. It is near impossible to find an English word in the Sanskrit Bible. There is no dearth of Praise of the Native Deity in Sanskrit Bible. But it is an illusory veneer.
Always look for phrases like Hope, Feel Good, Comical Tragedy, any incongruous juxtaposition of tragedy and comedy ie Charlie Wilson's War, Slumdog. That is the pure propaganda genre. This genre informs (and now forms the totality of) the western self-narrative.
Kubrick's 'Shining' is about the flashbacks, the memory which cannot be erased. We need extended discussion of that movie. In western reviews of that movie, you will see the immediacy of the movie dismissed by saying that it is about 'evil in general', about mankind's psychology, about man's inhumanity to man. Secularism and Enlightenment is such a discourse which generalizes away the incongruity or the persistence of the memory. The heathen is generalized away as quaint, "romantic", folky, festivals, etc.
Linearized interpretative history affords an illusionary organicity to the project.