Beginning roughly around the industrialisation era, the innately Asuric European mind underwent an unprecedented and perhaps irreversible transformation. The Asuric element itself was indelibly introduced into the European psyche by the Christian cult, which destroyed invaluable classical civilisations first through the Christist compassionate messaging and then through sword, fire and faith and plunged an entire continent into the heart of Abrahamic darkness for over half a millennium.

A key theme of this transformation lay in the manner in which a rapidly-industrialising Europe began to regard the human: primarily as an economic being. This is also one of the fundamental underpinnings of contemporary capitalism. Pause and visualise the picture that comes to your mind when you use terms like “human resources” and “productivity” in the context of human beings. It’s true though that this conception of the human in purely economic terms has resulted in material prosperity for the West on a scale and extent unprecedented in history. But it has come at enormous human cost in terms of relentless material consumption, emotional loneliness, the breakdown of the family unit and increasing dependence on the state. In turn, all these human-made maladies have subtle, subterranean links with the flagrant destruction of nature.