I'm not certainly not saying Batchelor, et al. should be the only teachers and that we should look to their work uncritically and abandon all Asian traditions in favor of modern ones. I am simply saying that blindly vilifying modernism and exalting so-called tradition is short-sighted, because Batchelor and other modern Buddhists are just doing the selfsame things that people (some of whom, like Ajahn Chah, have even been Asian) have always been doing in good faith efforts to understand what Buddhism really means for us as individuals. I always get the feeling that qualms of this sort are indicative of a sort of knee-jerk misoneism, rather than an honest understanding and evaluation of Buddhism in its proper historical, social, and personal contexts respectively.