Monday, June 4, 2012

*Interdisciplinary Need

We are living in a day where the many disciplines have been advancing in their own path for quite some time. Each of these disciplines have been establishing within their own paradigms and function in one form of positivism or another, all the while looking or waiting for paradigm shifts to happen. But isn't it time that we should go back and start bridging them all together again so that we can look at the practical in an informed manner? Why is the method of governance and attitudes so polarized that even ideas that would coincide with another party's agenda would be rejected solely on the basis of who it came from and the emotional attachments to one's party and negative emotional attachments to the other.

We know enough about the environment to know what harms and promotes it. We know enough about various cultures, about history, about different forms of government, and the various efficacies and non-efficacies of economic policies. Why are we not integrating and pooling the knowledge together? How come theology and philosophy are not working together in a practical manner that will promote a well-being for the populace? Why isn't theology engaged with other theologies for the anticipation of a meshing of civilizations and religious creeds? One who adopts the perspective that the world will be a Christian nation must deal with the ideas of resistance. Why is poverty, human trafficking, and the underprivileged not discussed? Shouldn't the disciplines be looking further at practical implications and the possibilities of interdisciplinary work and dialogue. Building trust and diminishing anger and hostilities should be a priority instead of raping the lands of others under the auspices of stability and promoting liberty.


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