As a Muslim I of course know very clearly what the cure is, although you may disagree. If I look at the many causes, you may agree on some, perhaps, many, but maybe not all. If I look at the symptoms I would hope all of you would agree with them, all as they effect everyone, every community, town, city and country on earth , unless you are very fortunate to be still living in a remote part of the world still untouched and infected by man.
Above all what is missing in the west is the absence of spirituality. If we look deep into the many lives of the people of oriental character, we see their lives are flooded with questions and thoughts of what is the purpose of life, where did we come from, where are going?.
The easterner , IE the true easterner never failed to take note of these important questions. He/she gave them unqualified priority in the manifold occupations of his/her life.
One thing is for sure, sometimes they failed, sometimes they fell, sometimes they went along the wrong path, but they never shut their ears to the voices of their souls.
Questions pertaining to spiritual truths used to arise in Europe also before the Renaissance , but as the innate character of its civilization gradually unfolded itself the west somehow got lost in the adoration of its material achievements., now called consumerism, so listening to the soul was disregarded.
So the fundamental psychological difference between an easterner of early times and that of a modern westerner is while the former possessed a keen and quick spiritual instinct, the latter lost it somewhere in the dreadful process of so called western theory of evolution.
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