One of the biggest blunders of the 20th and 21st-century academic and political intelligentsia is their misconception on spirituality. They gave away spirituality to the monopoly of religion and its ritualistic practices. They believed or rather forced to believe that spirituality is an act of irrational human behaviour owing to the training in the critical interrogation of socio-political agendas. They overlooked the large body of knowledge and engagements that human civilisations have produced in their spiritual quest in our world where the human activity in which associating oneself with eternal social values defined as the objective of living. In this spiritual order, one can only become one among the rest than one above the rest.
Kindly recall that all our political, social and economic theories and practices are only our enquiries on the role of the individual in social collective or humanity. What else is a spiritual quest than this act of understanding values that define an individual among collective?
Considering the entire left philosophy is built around the notions of restraint on individual advancement above collective progress, one start wondering where did the entire left intelligentsia miss the point of this subtle truth of spirituality in their institutional criticism.
Perhaps it is time that we revisit our notions of knowledge engagements in our post-truth society of statistical reality, (where every human activities and engagement are understood as the statistical average of the total - both in science and humanity) to understand that most of our conflicts today arise from this dichotomy of ignorance on spirituality. ( where one engages with larger values of collective above individual desire, greed and limitation. )
Let us accept, there is a political spirituality, social spirituality, business spirituality, scientific spirituality, democratic spirituality, artistic spirituality and among many other, there is also a Marxist spirituality.
If we continue to leave this most important human value adherence to the monopoly of religion, we are committing one of the biggest blunders in our evolution.
