Comments on: Culture, not religion, struggles to adapt to modernity in Central and South Asia http://aworldofprogress.com/culture-not-religion-struggles-to-adapt-to-modernity-in-central-and-south-asia/ an online magazine for the Progressive Human Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:37:25 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Sherri http://aworldofprogress.com/culture-not-religion-struggles-to-adapt-to-modernity-in-central-and-south-asia/comment-page-1/#comment-1304 Sherri Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:14:32 +0000 http://aworldofprogress.com/?p=5021#comment-1304 The concept of transformation through peaceful human interractions is so logical, so clearly the most useful and successful way of progress... ********* Agree. The concept of transformation through peaceful human interractions is so logical, so clearly the most useful and successful way of progress…

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]]> By: News Writer http://aworldofprogress.com/culture-not-religion-struggles-to-adapt-to-modernity-in-central-and-south-asia/comment-page-1/#comment-1303 News Writer Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:14:27 +0000 http://aworldofprogress.com/?p=5021#comment-1303 The concept of transformation through peaceful human interractions is so logical, so clearly the most useful and successful way of progress, to me that I am often baffled that so many other people, like Friedman, like the religious extremists in our own country, don't see it. I just don't fathom it. I suppose that fear is at the base of that attitude, but not even knowing that makes it any easier for me to comprehend. But I suppose it's always been thus -- resistance to change, resistance to progress ... we humans as a whole are quite often sluggish to move forward. The concept of transformation through peaceful human interractions is so logical, so clearly the most useful and successful way of progress, to me that I am often baffled that so many other people, like Friedman, like the religious extremists in our own country, don’t see it. I just don’t fathom it. I suppose that fear is at the base of that attitude, but not even knowing that makes it any easier for me to comprehend.

But I suppose it’s always been thus — resistance to change, resistance to progress … we humans as a whole are quite often sluggish to move forward.

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