"The West may be going down the drain but for the Buddha of Peshawar there is hardly a hint of end of history in sight. After enlightening a mostly young audience about the troubles in Pakistan, he still had to catch that long flight back to deal, on a daily basis, with the after effects of that conceptual cluster bomb called the ''war on terror''. If only those instant ''experts'' and think-tankers in Washington would listen to him instead of worshipping in the bulletproof altar of the David Petraeus deity.
...............After the exhibition I became even more obsessed with the question; what if contemporary solid elites in their folly of hubris - suddenly started to be overrun by the rejects of liquid modernity? With no Botticelli to depict this new Bonfire of the Vanities - just uploads on YouTube?
I got my answer from Occupy Wall Street"..................READ MORE
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