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May 22, 2025
Mahākāla ( महाकाल ) Protector of the Dharma Thursday: My views on the reign of quantity – May 22, 2025 In modern times, it seems quite natural for people to take for granted that any expression or any feature apparent in the world should necessarily be improved with time or "progress", as many people label it. This sentiment seems to be true in people's perception of the moral domain in particular; as if things just magically become better because some period of time has elapsed. To provide an example: because something that is expressed today was considered immoral in the past but has come to be considered quite moral, and if not moral at least morally neutral, in the moral domain it has to be taken as a sign of progress, moral progress. This assumption of some kind of omniscient and inevitable improvement of the human condition—based on the seemingly arbitrary rule that what is considered morality should be extended or expanded—as a mere function of time is the...
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