Western blindness to itself is a systemic trait diagnosed independently across traditions

Evidence

Guénon sees all this as a systemic phenomenon, one in which a colossal dialectic is at work, producing—out of the massive interactions of economy, science, philosophy, progress, nationalism, and much else—a civilization that is not aware of itself. … This “blindness” to the self first, and consequently to the Other, is not Guénon’s diagnosis alone, for the same metaphor or its exact equivalent was to play an important part in the analysis of Horkheimer and Adorno (in their Dialectic), as well as of the Argentinian philosopher Enrique Dussel, all of whom wrote after Guénon. It is instructive that Dussel characterized the blindness of Europe (and, later, of modernity in general) to its mythic quality as one that continues to carry on irrational processes concealed even to itself. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 312

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with the blindness metaphor running through my reading on silence and perception — the ‘epistemological blindness’ framing parallels how lo-fi soundscapes erase signal from noise.
• DEFINE: Guénon’s ‘blindness’ is defined as a purely epistemological matter, not a rhetorical condemnation — a key distinction in his polemic.