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hat is the Solution?

Finally, what are the possible boundaries of a solution?

But this is not an
invitation for the
masculine,
oppressive West
to transform itself;
it is to recognize
that the
oppressed and
marginalized
Selves in the
West need help
and can be used
as allies in
civilization's battle
against
institutionalized
suffering.

The non-Western civilizations have to be aware of both the outside
forces of cruelty and grief, as well as the "inner vectors" that have
dislodged their true Selves. They have to do more than simply resist
the West: they have to transform their cultures into cultures of
resistance.

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