Dissent has been domesticated. All resistance to and dissent from hegemonic impulses falls into two categories: violence or pacifism.

Nandy posits a third way – the dissenter as non-player. The non- player plays another game altogether, a game of dissenting visions and futures. The future itself is a state of awareness. And the main aim of the game is to transform the future by changing human awareness of the future.

By defining what is “immutable” and “universal”, the West silences the visions of Other cultures to ensure the continuity of its own linear projections of the past and the present on to the future.

By avoiding thinking about the future, other cultures become prisoners of the past, presente and the future of western civilization to break out this structure, nandy contends, nonwestern cultures must define their own future in terms of their own categories and concepts, articulating their visions in lenguage that is true to their own self, even if not comprhensibl “on the other side of the global fence of academic respectability”