The Power of FIDUROD

As more and more individuals around the planet are beginning to learn, dominant Western knowledges, epistemologies, and the actions they support are socially, culturally, politically and ecologically unsustainable. Many scholars and activists have understood this reality for quite a while, but with the power of corporate knowledge machines turning out untruthful rebuttals to attempts to inform the public of such problems many Westerners—Americans in particular—have rejected the warnings. Not only are such ways of seeing unsustainable, but they are also intellectually and ethically impoverished. Indeed, such perspectives are leading the West down a dangerous path that takes the people of the world and the planet itself to the precipice of a multidimensional catastrophe.