The fundamental reason is that current economic model uses money to create a simulacron disconnected from the real world. It is a world in itself. This is indeed also the case for Artha in the Indian context, which is due to the action of Rajas in the 3-Guna Sāmkhya system.
There is no sacredness in ancient revelations. The old culture must have gotten things right we forgot how to understand, but it also failed and died, which is precisely why we don’t understand it any more. Don’t try to revive old cult ware by booting it up in your innocent brain
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Seriously, do you want to live in any version of India that existed a thousand years ago? You probably don’t get to pick and choose which parts of modernity you can carry back into your pastoral feudalist utopia.
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I understand this nostalgia is your identity, like mine is the bittersweet world of German eternalist romanticism, but it is just as wrong. The universe does not work this way. You only feel it should, because the identity fixes it to that target value.
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