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My interest is in a more complete export: the world-destroying nonsense of industrial society as it is currently practiced needs reining in, and the mental / philosophical toolkit of asia does seem to have a lot to offer (AT ITS BEST) in terms of producing people who don't fall into that kind of limited thinking. If Steve Jobs had been 20% more Ashoka, or Bill Gates meditated and people imitated him, we might be starting to build some of the Right Action toolkit necessary to build the spiritual backbone necessary to make environmental action work properly in western society (which is where all the power and money are right now.)

The half-baked hippie efforts aren't cutting it. We need something fully baked, and I think we could get it: a comprehensive overhaul of Buddhist and Hindu concepts of Right Action / Dharma for the modern situation of ecological and existential risks.

That's what I want. I don't give a crap about appropriation in most cases, but I despartely want better governance of the West, and that means ingesting all of the Asian trip, not just the convenient 5%.

As do we all!