-- *Mar*The Frenzy for and of Technology
Thanks to science and the scientific temperament, we no longer care to note and register the fact that we are all part of the planet earth or of the emotional Gaia. We adopt the attitude of the outsider who is observing and living in the make believe that we are simply not touched by the continuous changes happening in nature. The basic emotional bond, based on breathing, that makes you part, participant, limb, sprout and ingredient of the planet earth, must be ignored for the spectator or scientific attitude, the attitude of emotional indifference. You have to ignore the fact that living is living in symbiotic emotions. Now, the war between Russia and the Ukraine has already resulted in the death of more than five lakh soldiers. The war in the Middle East, with the nuclear armed American aircraft carriers, ready to join the war, is taking us to the ultimate nuclear holocaust. In Sudan now genocide is happening but that genocide is not worth noting, it has no news value, as it is happening to the African blacks. The bomb in Hiroshima that roasted alive immediately more than a lakh people was just 13 kilo tons TNT.Now the normal small nuclear bomb is in mega tons or in millions of TNT and their total number is in thousands. There are also the tactical nuclear weapons. We just do not know the total number of life forms that get killed, even in the explosion of a small bomb. For all of us, war as long as it does not affect us is actually exciting and entertaining news, and cine writers are busy fantasizing and adding to the tragedy to create success in the box office. Emotion must be only for excitement, not as communication and certainly not to create empathy as it robs us of sleep. But we have to start the education of the tiny tot, with the first paradigmatic lesson that it is part of nature, of the planet earth. We have to make it practice breathe, smell, identify and gradually perceive, perceive emotionally, not mechanically with cultivated indifference to emotions. The child must be trained to feel nature, in nature and not lectured at in AC classroom, in the artificial air. Let us just contemplate what will happen when we adopt the paradigm of emotions. Let us now just concentrate say on the equatorial evergreen forests. In those thick and lush forests, there is a wide variety of flora and fauna. All those life forms inhale the smell messages of the other organisms and exhale responses, creating rivers and oceans of emotions in the troposphere. Those rivers flow into every organism and they collect emotion feeds from them. That activity impacts and molds every minute of our emotional life. Then the destruction and devastation of nature, the death, devastation and deprivation of many life forms, cannot continue as mere academic news where one can be indifferent. When one gets accustomed to feeling self as a macro body and macro being, the wounds inflicted on nature now will touch us. When education takes to the paradigm of emotional interactions in and with nature, nature automatically becomes the partner in the great college of nature. We must be aware, that we simply cannot live naturally anywhere else outside our earth. We cannot live on the Moon, or in any of the planets of our solar system or in any of the moons of those planets. We can live only on earth and that too as a part, component, limb, sprout and ingredient of earth. Then can we be indifferent to the hovering nuclear disaster, which burns red every life form, a prospect now staring at us? The frenzy for technology is changing into frenzy of destruction and the takeover of terror in the air we breathe. Take the kids to nature and make them practice smell and identify. YM -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CACDCHCKUtGn7WDqr-%2By8amivd6fXr%2ByjDcLh9oWHwGhJZCs-BQ%40mail.gmail.com.
