“Mr. Gandhi, what do you think of Western Civilisation?”“I think it’s a good idea.”
A century after Mahatma Gandhi delivered his famously sharp retort to a condescending British press, the global architecture he challenged faces an unprecedented twilight.In this new two-part long-form essay, I take a bird’s-eye view of the last 500 years of global history.
From the violent internal fractures of pre-industrial Europe to the cold, zero-sum geopolitical chessboards of Sir Halford Mackinder, the essay explores how Western Civilisation successfully turned its localized concepts into a global monoculture—often by ruthlessly marginalizing alternative frameworks.
Today, as the ten great ideological pillars of this half-millennium framework face systematic collapse, the world is stepping into a profound ideological void.📖 Read the full deep dive here:
