New Delhi [India], September 22: Human civilization is witnessing a long-term distress that has corrupted the Dharmik values of the world, and the time is ripe to transform the ways to return to the roots. This central theme surrounds Vivek Singhal’s Dominion and Dharma, portraying the gradual decay of values around the world. The author classifies the world into two segments — Dominion and Dharma, stressing the former’s role in the modern world that focuses on exploitive technology and unchecked capitalism that is taking away mankind’s spiritual purity. The book details how capitalism has turned into the violent imposition on humankind following its origination from the Papal Bulls, manifesting via colonialism, slavery, and modern corporations. An account of contemporary intimidations of society, the book portrays the need for a meaningful intervention for humankind that is finding it challenging to juggle between economic growth and ecological devastation.
To understand this in detail, the book offers a historical account, along with a spiritual framework that is defined by the author as the contributing factors behind the declining civilization. He puts in a compelling account as to the transformation of capitalism as a system of conquest, while also simultaneously offering the solution of a dharmic worldview. It emphasises harmony, community, and ethical responsibility and reverence for nature — an ever-present aspect in the precolonial world, especially in India, Africa, indigenous America, and China. The book presents that in the precolonial world, land was considered sacred, in contrast to Europe’s way of commodification and privatisation. The author also explores the theological roots of capitalism in the Abrahamic school of thought, revealing how empires and subjugations are termed justified as divine missions.... to read more - Click here