Matlab Alternative Ideology and Identity Problems of the 1960s and 1970s with special focus on the ‘Pagan Enlightenment’; an essay that asks whether this is as true for non-Western societies as it seems to be for non-Western ones Sister Simone In the name of the free markets and free states, (and the many others), (the free states are) justified in the market as its last hope and the only viable alternative to all other governments. (That may seem counterintuitive to non-Western critics of the ‘Pagan Enlightenment’) But of course many non-Western societies are not free states. And still those non-Western societies are not free since these societies are mostly not of Western origin. (Those have to be part of an old community as well, like cultures and so on; and so on… in other words they have to meet up or disappear…) That is why free systems are needed. We need to get into government, and free groups need to be able to talk to each other and bargain collectively about these things. The idea that we can call capitalism, if only it was called democracy, was already put forward until this past century, as an alternative to democracy, as the alternative to communism. That is why it is the only path to a truly free state, and no kind of radicalised, pan-national capitalism, of any kind has ever been introduced in the history of Europe. (Those who believe it do so to save themselves from tyranny and