Eleventh Note to “Prison Notebooks”

Nor are we discounting or retracting what we have said before regarding mysticism and sainthood, we should note. Greek and Islamic philosophy cannot be cancelled or erased. But mystics and saints are a creature of the East. Not the West. Decolonization and the “rollback” of the West form the “mainstream” and “overall sweep” of world history after all. And as a result, the West is rendered as nothing more than “a decaying and disorganized fringe” of the East.