This article is pretty much Francis Fukuyama turned on his head. Like Fukuyama’s “End of History” (and Huntington’s “Clash of Civilizations” for that matter) this broad sweeping historical argument has a sort of superficial intuitive appeal. Whether it holds up to close scrutiny is a different question.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/14/-sp-western-model-broken-pankaj-mishra
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