The Western Enlightenment understood power, while the Eastern Enlightenment understood the integration of the individual. The West understood how love brings rationality (not fear and excessive severity, though this is resurging due to dualism), and how to set up obstacles in the power structure so only the Moral could attain power. The West (By that I mean Enlightenment-influenced countries) put a collar and a leash on government with Constitutions and Human Rights. The East simply accepts power as a reality, as opposed to a dualistic fight between an objective good and evil. There is still a sense of Good and Evil, but it is more flexible to the situation. The East seem to be able to tolerate living in evil conditions much better, because they are much better integrated individuals. We need to maintain the ideas of love, truth, and rationality in the West, while at the same time stressing the importance of integrating the individual into the reality that we are all one, and that our cultural operating system and language can sometimes confuse our reality greatly. The West and East are merging, and people don't know how to deal with it all, but I think we're all learning what is helpful and what isn't. I think East/West talk is useful, but I agree that it's not very useful to assume "The West is the Best". Cultural relativism is a sham, because there is an objective set of morals, but to think we are doing everything right at this point in history is ignorant and presumptuous.