The Non Player and the future
Dissent has been domesticated.
All resistance to and dissent from hegemonic impulses falls into two categories:
violence
pacifism
Nandy posits a third way — the dissenter as non-player.
The non-player plays another 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.
immutable universal
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 onto the future.
By avoiding thinking about the future, other cultures become prisoners of the past, present and the future of Western civilization.
To break out of this structure, non-Western cultures must define their own future in terms of their own categories and concepts,
articulating their visions in language true to their own self —
even if not comprehensible “on the other side of the global fence of academic respectability.”
