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The Corrosion of Expression
In free and healthy nature, the expression from every organism is actually
the expression of nature. Nature speaks with the organism as its medium. It
is a limb of nature expressing as an organism. Most expressions are
revelations laden. Injury to any organism is injury to nature. Freedom
means, the freedom of every organism, to express its experiences as
revelations from nature. All expressions automatically were poetic. Poetry
was language. The basic fact is that every organism, including you is a
limb and part of nature’s anatomy, part of the planet earth.
Every subject, its predication and verb context, were aspects of the living
nature. Doing science as an outsider of nature, observing nature is as
absurd as assuming that your finger is an outsider observing you and doing
science.
In the free and healthy forest, the sounds of nature were actually the
songs of organisms. Your expressions were tuning with nature, the
Biosphere. Life was totally ecological and poetic, simply theistic. Ecology
was living in revelations in nature and participating in the revelations of
nature, mainly as the songs of nature, the wonderful and gigantic symphony.
No voice was ignored and unheard.
Ecology took every organism into new and new revelations, discoveries as
experiences. The anatomies mutated continuously to make way for new and new
revelations. The anatomy was not just 3D appearance in the visible
spectrum, but it included the emotional anatomy, part of the 99.9965% of
the invisible spectrum. The invisible spectrum was the spectrum of feelings
and revelations, participating in your own non 3D thoughts, feelings,
emotions, perceptions and understandings. The basic fact is, you simply
cannot quantify a single feeling, emotion or thought. They are not
mathematical and mechanical. Ecology has to be experienced, not scienced.
Today in every University we teach the subjects based on the Cartesian or
mechanical logic. Education simply means subjecting the students to
processes that mechanize them and change them into the ‘Economic Man’, the
human changed into a machine without feelings, emotions, and who cannot
relate emotionally. As economic life today we destroy nature continuously
all the 24 hours of every day. We have become so jaded and lunatic, that we
simply take the destruction of nature casually and the destruction is
simply not factored.
We simply do not care about the emotional aspect of the Biosphere.We have
converted every life form into livestock.
We simply killed the poetry from nature and in our own lives. Living itself
has become suiciding.
It is for the Universities to revive the poetry of life. They must resign
from the priesthood of doing the economic murder of nature.
AS a first step, every University must start a ‘Free Nature Park’ without
human tampering so that the students become ecological beings with poetry
as life.
YM Sarma
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This piece, *“The Corrosion of Expression” by YM Sarma*, reads as both a
philosophical essay and an ecological elegy—a lament for the loss of the
organic unity between nature, life, and expression. It blends poetic
language with a critique of modern mechanistic thinking, calling for a
return to an embodied, emotional, and poetic relationship with the natural
world.
Here’s a brief *interpretive summary and analysis*:
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*Summary*
Sarma argues that in a “free and healthy nature,” every organism’s
expression is not personal but rather *an expression of nature itself*. The
living world, in this view, is a vast, self-articulating whole—each
organism a “limb” through which nature speaks. This harmony once made all
expressions inherently poetic: the language of life and ecology was not
scientific or analytical but *revelatory and musical*, woven into the
“gigantic symphony” of the biosphere.
However, with the rise of *Cartesian and mechanical logic*, humans
alienated themselves from nature. Education and science, once meant to
expand understanding, now enforce a view of life as mechanical, reducing
people into “Economic Man”—emotionally numb, exploitative, and divorced
from the living world. Modern civilization, Sarma suggests, has committed
an ongoing “economic murder of nature,” transforming all life into mere
livestock and draining existence of poetry and feeling.
Sarma’s remedy is radical yet simple: universities must *restore the poetic
relationship with life*. As a first step, he proposes establishing “Free
Nature Parks”—untouched by human control—where students can *relearn how to
feel, listen, and express as part of nature*, not apart from it.
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*Analysis*
- *Central Theme:* The alienation of humanity from nature due to
mechanistic rationality and the loss of emotional and poetic consciousness.
- *Tone:* Passionate, elegiac, prophetic. Sarma writes not as a detached
thinker but as a voice mourning ecological and spiritual disconnection.
- *Philosophical Roots:*
- Echoes of *Romanticism* (Wordsworth, Emerson, Thoreau) in its
reverence for nature as a living, speaking presence.
- Resonances of *Deep Ecology* (Arne Næss) and *Systems Thinking*,
though Sarma explicitly rejects the idea of “doing science” *about*
nature rather than *within* it.
- A critique of *Cartesian dualism*—the separation of mind and
matter, subject and object—that underlies modern education and economics.
- *Key Metaphor:* *“Corrosion of expression”* — the decay of our ability
to express as nature expresses, replaced by artificial, mechanized modes of
thought and life.
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*Closing Reflection*
At its heart, Sarma’s essay is a *call for re-enchantment*—to restore the
lost poetry between humans and the living earth. He envisions education not
as training for economic productivity, but as a *spiritual and ecological
awakening*, where students rediscover that they are not observers of nature
but nature itself, speaking.
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Would you like me to help *condense this into a one-paragraph summary* or
create a *critical response or reflection essay* (e.g. for a class or
publication)?
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