Enlightenment, Identity and Hierarchy

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.

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