Enlightenment is a self-transcending, optimal
objectification of existence – insofar as it is possible. It is
the self-contradictory act of a human subject objectifying
itself and all it is associates. This includes the identity of
the individual, and in the present context, some of the
identities of the peoples of the world. But identity is complex,
composite, and can be contradictory. It is relative to other
identities and immersed in larger realities.
The three-tiered historical-cultural hierarchies aren’t of
course strictly linear; they transcend into a composite whole,
even as each member of the hierarchy has its own unique
identity.
There are people who are not part of the four, five races in
the hierarchies – indigenous people, people of mixed parentage,
etc. So the hierarchies are a way of understanding the world.
Also, there is so much more to the content of a concept than
what is ‘conceptualizable’.
The essential approach here is one of historicism : so that
history may be made!
It has to be stressed that given the historical failures of
three major cultures of the world in the optimal test of
modernity, a question hangs over the world itself whether it
will come through a winner in the final test of modernity. This
shall be critically settled by whether or not the world has
properly evolved the Millennials.
It is now for us to start a scientific search for the
Millennials, whereby individuals of Assamese origin can come
forward and be genetically tested for their Millenniality.