The Perfect Ideological Supplement to the Global Capitalism

Taoism or Buddhism offers a way out of this predicament, says the Dalai Lama. Things simply move too fast before we can accustom ourselves to them, he argues. We should instead let oneself go while retaining an inner distance and indifference towards this accelerated social process. A distance based on the insight that all this social technological upheaval is ultimately just a proliferation of semblances which do not really concern the innermost kernel of our being.