-- *Mar*Absolutely. Below is a *lightly edited version* of YM Sarma’s essay.
I’ve preserved the author’s *voice, tone, and message*, but improved *grammar, flow, and structure* for clarity and publication readiness. Changes include smoother sentence transitions, more consistent paragraphing, and minor stylistic refinements — no ideas have been altered. ------------------------------ *Impressing Nature vs. Impressing the Economic Man* *By YM Sarma* This is the age of catastrophic paradox. Universities have hijacked all education—and they, in turn, have been hijacked by the frenzy of mechanization. Under the rule of the “Economic Man,” the mechanized mutant of the *Homo sapiens*, universities have repudiated the natural universe. They now strive to convert the cosmos into an economic resource designed to serve this Economic Man: the human machine that has renounced emotion and feeling to live by the cold laws of Newtonian mechanics. The Economic Man refuses to be ecological; he rejects membership in the biosphere. His economic life depends on the continual destruction of nature and of ecological balance. Economics has become a manual of war against nature, driven by the mechanical paradigm of René Descartes, the competitive war model among organisms proposed by Charles Darwin, and the “selfish gene” concept of Richard Dawkins. All three repudiate the symbiosis that sustains the biosphere. Modern sociology, too, has declared itself a kind of Newtonian mechanics of human behavior. It leaves no room for the natural feelings and emotions that arise from being a true *Homo sapiens*—a creature of the ecological web. Humanity has divorced itself from the ecosphere and the biosphere, embracing instead an economic life in which “progress” means the destruction of nature. But how long can nature be mutilated while its organisms are diseased and driven to extinction? Today, even economic life itself is being overtaken by machines, rendering the Economic Man increasingly irrelevant. Corporations replace human workers with automation, retrenching employees in the name of efficiency. Yet when employment disappears, incomes vanish—and with them, markets. The corporations are heading for collapse. This is not a mere recession but a vast depression toward which humankind is drifting. God is clearly showing the way: humanity cannot continue destroying nature. Economics has reached a dead end. The robber-politicians can no longer plunder when there is no true economic activity left. Having devastated the natural world, there is nothing left to exploit. The only meaningful avenue of employment now lies in *reviving and restoring nature*, in *rebuilding ecology*. Economics must be freed from mechanical thinking and re-anchored in ecology—not in a Newtonian sense, but in a *spiritual ecology* that promotes the symbiotic emotions and feelings shared by all organisms of the biosphere. The human prodigal must return to nature. As a beginning, every university should create a *“Free Nature Park”*—untouched by human tampering—where students can learn by direct interaction with the living world, without mechanical devices. They must learn to be part of nature, to live as its limbs. Education should be grounded in the paradigm that we are all members of planet Earth, bound to live symbiotically as links within the biosphere—simply, ecologically, and spiritually. ------------------------------ Would you like me to format this next as a *ready-to-publish essay* (with title page, author bio, and abstract for a journal or magazine)? -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CACDCHCLmwP5UZc29xC4x-FF1t%2Bckj9BNoqS4U-qWCbXsWas81w%40mail.gmail.com.
