Raimon Panikkar
Vita e parola. La mia opera.2010
Neither science nor modern technology represent a cultural invariant: they are neither neutral nor universal, and therefore they are not universalizable without destroying other cultures.
The introduction of modern scientific ideology in two thirds of the world, which have not generated it within its own culture, is equivalent to the strategy of the Trojan horse. Technology hides in its belly a whole phalanx of basic notions that, leaving their inner wings, will disturb and destroy the fundamental intuitions of other cultures, with the risk, of course, of steering reactions, rebellions and catastrophes.
The introduction of modern scientific ideology in two thirds of the world, which have not generated it within its own culture, is equivalent to the strategy of the Trojan horse. Technology hides in its belly a whole phalanx of basic notions that, leaving their inner wings, will disturb and destroy the fundamental intuitions of other cultures, with the risk, of course, of reactions, rebellions and catastrophes.
The introduction of modern scientific ideology in two thirds of the world, which have not generated it within its own culture, is equivalent to the strategy of the Trojan horse. Technology hides in its belly a whole phalanx of basic notions that, leaving their inner wings, will disturb and destroy the fundamental intuitions of other cultures, with the risk, of course, of reactions, rebellions and catastrophes.
Reference
Raimon Panikkar. 2010. Vita e parola. La mia opera, Jaca Book, Milà, p. 139-147. Chapter ‘Space, time and science’
