Our talent for division, for seeing the parts, is of staggering importance — second only to our capacity to transcend it, in order to see the whole. —Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary, 2012
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51