Escape from the Cold War Mindset to Set Up a Post-Cold War History of Philosophy

Abstract

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0in">In the pre-Independence era, our
 republic founders held the Cold War mindset strongly. Consequently, the
 Indonesian republic proclaimed in 1945 was based on a Cold War mindset; our
 state philosophy (<i>Pancasila</i>) and the Constitution (<i>UUD '45</i>) were
 understood and construed on the Cold War discourse basis; and binary
 oppositions of capitalism-socialism and liberalism-communism since then have
 been created. Up to the 2020s, the Cold War mindset has still been held by
 public intellectuals and the binary oppositions have still been rampant in
 intellectual discourses. If the mindset were still held for three decades to
 come, it would cause a setback to the development of Indonesian philosophy
 history. This article is a call to stop and an invitation to escape from the
 retrogressive mindset. As a call, the article exposes first the evil root of
 the Cold War mindset as well as the philosophical critique towards it. Then, as
 an invitation, it suggests three realistic alternative mindsets to replace the
 Cold War mindset, i.e. post-Cold War capitalistic mindset, deconstructive
 mindset, and utopian mindset, which are called herein as three growth
 scenarios. It is believed that, if the three generating scenarios are followed,
 they will move Indonesian philosophy history forward, and its ongoing development
 will not hinder or retard<span lang="IN">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>