Abstract
What time is it, I asked early upon embarking on writing this book. Where in the world are we? What does it mean to be an Iranian, a Muslim, an Oriental, as they call us? Upon what phase in the history of nations, peoples, regions, cultures, and, more urgently, the fragile earth do we dwell? Neither the European modernity nor their version of postmodernity has held any brief for the rest of the world. Neither the European modernity nor the fake traditions they induced nations around the world to manufacture has held any continued relevance or validity for the inhabitants of a globe on the verge of self-destruction. The postcolonial reason and rhetoric have resulted in Hindu fundamentalism reigning supreme in India, Buddhist nationalism in Myanmar, militant Islamism in Iran and beyond, a settler colony Jewish state in Palestine, a Christian imperialism that seeks to rule over them all, and a wild chimera called ISIS drawing them into its miasmatic terror running amuck among them all.
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