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Written by Muhammad Natsir Tahar
Cosmos is
regularity in universe system, began from zero point until back to zero. It is
a big scale structure, in order to history should be understood as holistic and
simultaniously, not only parcial and random test.
We should
be fair to our own history, do not take sides partially and are hostile other side. In glorification discourse, every single nation take the best part from
the chain of their history or another history. Dress and have the best
tradition taken from a single creak of a super long bridge of time.
Our tradition nowaday
is a group of data notes managed by a group of people in the past. Might be
some of proposals have been rejected. Initially ordinary, time later
conjured it to be sacred.
Some of us trapped in romatism and hostile the future. To
think of something new is bad and violates customs. Even though before the
traditions become cultural consensus, it is something new too at the time, even
eliminating obsolete values the more ancient. The tradition that we keep today
can not exist, if the more predecessor do not want to budge.
In the cosmos, we might not be alone, except when we ever
isolated for thousand of years like Tasmanian Aborigines. Our traditional
dress, our lexicon, dance and singing, customs, and some of our culture values are
acculturation and mix from several things. Our tradition is not fall from the
sky as a whole, it was a globalization product, far from the term of
globalization was discovered.
If we think our tradition to contain scared values and
holly because of their old age, just know that when it was born from our
primitive territorial, thousands of years before that on another
slice of the world, they already thought about the system of universe and
dicovered a dust called the earth.
When our tradition was busy fumigating the keris with
incense and feeling the earliest, three thousand years before that, Archimedes
a genius from Syracusa had discovered the basics of Fluid Mechanics and Heron
from Alexandria had written Automata, the first book about robots.
We are absolutely young nation and rather feel very ancient
, and we were not might be born from the straw like the postulate Generatio
Spontania of Aristotle. We have connected to previous nations, it
could be that the geniuses of the inventors of the navigation system or
something like that were our elders after a long biological cross. But the fate
that brought our ancestors may be lost to the primitive wilderness.
Reading the tradition nowaday, our millenials generation
should be stretch the ribbon of the cosmos wandering from end to end
so that there is nothing left to talk about. It is no longer trapped in narrow
egocentric tribalism or a very strong grip on the territorial radius. Because
we are bigger and equal to the citizens of the world.
The natural
dictations which have taken a narrow space of primordialism, seem to need to be
displayed in historical space and time in the medium of the universe.
While the task of millennial literature is not only full
devotion to the aesthetic of metalanguage, it also does not abandon sacred
duties as messengers of moral ethics. Literature and poetry as vehicles of
meaning and axioms are not merely an image of themselves, but also their
responsibilities as social script.
In observing the dichotomy of tradition and modernization
when both contain counterproductive elements, Kuntowijoyo has initiated a
Prophetic Sociology. First, prophetic sociology has three important values as
its foundation, namely humanization, liberation and transcendence. These three
values in addition to functioning criticism will also give direction, and
field of research.
Second, epistemologically, prophetic sociology holds that
there are three sources of knowledge, namely empirical reality, ratios and
revelation. This is somewhat different from the positivism of Auguste Comte who
saw revelation as part of a myth.
Prophetic sociology is understood and placed in the context
of social science which has a prophetic responsibility to free people from the
cruelty of poverty, abundance of extortion, dominance of oppressive structures
and hegemony of false consciousness.
Thus we not only read and rewrite the past and then forgive
it, but also provide rectification and complement so that the generation after
us have a cosmic conciousness and excellence that are equal to the progress of the
times. ~MNT
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