Like Admin Noronha, I too do not see that this guy is claiming that his world is better than someone else's. His proposal is that mythology and traditions shape people's ways of behaving and doing business. While there is some truth in this view from the subjective standpoint, the problem I see with his talk is that he goes overboard with his generalizations and metaphors, and ends up wrongly conflating the subjective with the objective. It is a classic example of comparing apples with oranges. The dichotomy he creates between the east and the west is entirely artificial, and of his own making, for this reason.
Cheers, Santosh --- On Fri, 10/15/10, Frederick Noronha <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Selma, > > Devadutt Pattanaik > [http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/devdutt_pattanaik.html] > struck me > as making some very important points. > > His view didn't strike me as arguing that "India is > better", but just > different. Not just India, but a whole lot of societies > which have a > non-linear approach towards time. > > When viewed against the West-is-best, science-is-god, > we-know-it-all > approaches, the points being made struck me as something > interesting. > We could quibble about the examples he used to make his > point, but > what he said did ring a bell while I viewed it. FN > > Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490 >
