Science and reason have failed us as bearers of hope and salvation founded on the scientific method. To the conservative, this would seem like a threatening possibility but to the libertarian it is an age filled with potential unmatched since the beginning of time. Specifically, the fall of the iron curtain and the revelations of the Stalin years have left a void of despair. While all that we hold as foundations of truth are resting on loose soil, and all that Postmodernism flirts with, I can only see infinite possibility. The end of absolutism and the end of modernity holds as much risk as it does promise.
Lets examine the anathema in terms of power relations.
Tibet has kept itself on the moral high ground of non-violence as principle and a close symbiotic relationship with nature. Conversely, Maoist Communism springs from the cliche that power is derived from the barrel of the gun. This basic premise is where all the problems start from. Exportation of ideology, in an increasingly pluralistic world of acceptance and tolerance becomes nostalgia for the age of colonialism. Funny you should ask.