Sunday, July 24, 2022
Tuesday, July 19, 2022
There is no providence in the fall of a sparrow
Friday, July 15, 2022
Thursday, July 14, 2022
Planet’s Fight for Life
It is becoming amply clear that
consolidated intelligence of religions and that of market is of least help and
is indeed anti-thesis to crisis that humanity face. It is science that
confronts reality with human faculties and enlightened thoughts and reason. Then
there are rare humans like Edward Wilson who contribute their understanding to
add to the collective thinking. He argues “Despite all our pretenses and fantasies,
we always have been and will remain a biological species tied to this
biological world. Millions of years of evolution are indelibly encoded in our
genes…wildland is our birthplace”. He proposes “Only a major shift in moral reasoning,
with greater commitment given to rest of life, can meet this greatest challenge
of the century.”
“If humanity continues its suicidal ways to change the global climate, eliminate ecosystem, and exhaust Earth’s natural resources, our species will very soon find itself forced into making a choice, this time engaging the conscious part of our brain. It is as follows: Shall we be existential conservatives, keeping our genetically based human nature while tapering off the activities inimical to ourselves and the rest of the biosphere? Or shall we use our technology to accommodate the changes important solely to our own species, while letting the rest of life slip away? We have only short time to decide.” The book ends with these perceptive lines “We have come a very long way through the barbaric period in which we still live, and now I believe we’ve learned enough to adopt a transcendent moral percept concerning the rest of life. It is simple and easy to say : Do no further harm to the biosphere."
The problem seems to be the hope filled assumption that we have come a long way from barbaric period.
Tuesday, July 12, 2022
Fascinating
Tuesday, July 05, 2022
The religion problem
It will be wrong to put every religion
in the same context. Every religion has gone through tribulation within the
context of its functioning. They have all contributed to the growth of humanity
in their own way. Every religion had its obscurantist force as also empathy
driven enlightening presence. This has been the constant struggle throughout
the history. In the contemporary world despite the best efforts, it is really
impossible for religion to play positive role. The world has progressed too far
from the realities that these religions made sense. World has become a small
place with latest technologies and understandings hence religion becomes segregatory,
exclusionist, seeding ideas that are increasingly fanciful and dangerous. It therefore
becomes easy for charlatans to tap into these systems to further degrade discourse
and possibilities of better world. Religions therefore cannot be allowed carte blanche
as representing some innate truth or divine intervention. It cannot appropriate
sacred space. It will have to face the contemporary world and its challenges. These
fantastical fictions cannot be allowed to define identity hence sneak in as diversity.
It’s a degradation. This must be understood in clear terms. It is a threat to
hard won values of liberty and freedom. It is a persistent threat to all the
values that humanity cherish.
Religion is a human created aberration
on earth system. It is a virus that converts decent sentient humans into herds incapable
to value life or estimate the significance of reality. It must be resisted. As societies
evolved and people became aware they start to question the authority of religion.
They created space for banter as also derision on this ridiculous faith in fantastical fiction
that contradicted directly to easy evaluations and basic logic. This helped religion
to evolve too into spiritual spaces shedding its anachronistic narrations. Things
though have degraded at an alarming rate in recent times. Cunning conniving
herd controllers are competing with each other for control. The failure of education,
its immense possibilities confined to narrow ‘use’. Sense of insecurities
pervading despite the best of possibilities for humans that could ever be imagined.
Market media and capitalism hinged on wanton consumption too have contributed
to discontent and apathy. Transactional relations and loneliness added to the
disquiet. For unexamined minds the semantics of dealing was already trapped in
alphabets of superstition and faith. It was easy for the subconscious to associate
with centuries of well-entrenched traps of instincts of religion. It is heart
wrenching as humans get entrapped in cesspool that denies their core being.
Life is sacrosanct. There is nothing
more precious than life. So, when pernicious religion claims sanctity over
human life then sane forces must realize the danger it poses to humanity. A civilized
society must nurture space to ridicule religion, it must encourage blasphemy. It
must encourage inquisitive minds and free souls. Survival of humanity is hinged
on these. Shackles of religion holds everything that is detrimental to human
progress. Ridicule is not one way process. It is not a claim that my way is
better than yours. My way is very much open to ridicule, and correction. The only
thing that matters here is aesthetics. Aesthetics of life that connects to
nature.