There must be a lot being written about it but beyond a couple of old books I found in Dharamsala on the subject, I’ve not seen much. This article about Tariq Ramadan and his “Third Way” therefore fascinated me, and I shall have to try to dig in and get more. The whole hijab controversy in Europe strikes me as madness, and I expected more, so I am curious now. I got this link from Ritu, by the way.

HG Wells, in one of his several prefaces to the novel The War In The Air, in which he chastised people for not taking note of what he predicted would happen to warfare once war took the the skies. He wrote the following: Again I ask the reader to note the warnings I gave in that year [1921], twenty years ago. IS there anything to add to that preface now? Nothing except my epitaph. That, when the time comes, will manifestly have to be: “I told you so. You damned fools.” And thus could be something Chris someday writes linking …

Rich at Sharp Blue is a sharp fellow. So when he writes something, I check it out. He’s posted on the failure of humanism, and I think his words are deserving of attention: Traditional religion might be losing, but secular humanism is not winning. Instead, conventional religions seem to be largely losing ground to a combination of largely unthinking hedonism and a set of constantly shifting and mutating mystical or spiritual beliefs. Possibly these pseudo-worldviews are gaining ground not just against the old religons but against the scientific, rationalist worldview too. The reason for this, it seems to me, reduces …