-- *Mar*Ego Identity-Vs-The Macro Identity
Suppose you are born in free, healthy, lush and happy nature. Suppose there is no human at all living with you. Then you develop the smelling, hearing and sensing language. Every other life form hears, smells, senses and understands you. Your exhalation of the smell message reaches the nearby organisms, which in turn exhale their answers, which not only you but many other organisms smell, hear and sense. The air gets filled up with the smell and sound messages of the flora and the fauna. You develop the smelling, hearing and sensing habit so continuously; you cannot feel your ego identity. Gradually the macro identity embeds into your very vitals. Every organism exhales its perceptions and understanding which the other organisms inhale and transport them to their cells via hormones in their blood streams. Reception from the air and the transformation of the smell and sound message as hormonal communication gathers momentum so intensely, that the very idea of ‘I’ goes into the background. You become unaware of yourself. In fact every organism becomes unaware of itself. The macro identity as part of nature and the Biosphere takes over. You begin sensing the emotions and feelings of every other organism, so completely; it is like feeling a small ant crawling on you now. Nature becomes your macro body as sensitive or even more sensitive as you feel with your identity as the’ your body’ now. When you go on destroying the flora and fauna, continuously as economic activity, then there will be no organisms to create the macro identity. Your smell and sound messages get ignored. You get jailed in your ego identity. You get self centered, egoistic, egomaniacal and completely egocentric, the true economic man of Economics.We have no alternative because our feelings are ignored by nature, by every other organism. Occasionally a close friend or wife or husband or parents pay attention to you, as their own capacity to smell, hear and sense has not been eliminated completely by economics. But imagine the difference, when the whole nature makes you its part and limb and you develop the macro identity. Then you do not live as a notice starved human yearning for notice and recognition, often participating in the shouting fests as debates, outshouting everyone else by breaking records in decibels. The simple fact is when there is free, healthy and lush nature, you develop the macro identity. When nature is destroyed there will be no organisms that smell, hear and sense you, and your body becomes the big jail. Economics has converted our bodies into jails today. We need free nature and desperately need freedom from economics. YM Sarma Chat gpt Here is a refined, academically toned *rewrite and expansion* of your piece, keeping all core ideas but sharpening clarity, structure, and philosophical depth. If you prefer a shorter or more poetic version, I can create those as well. ------------------------------ *Ego Identity vs. the Macro Identity* *Based on the ideas of YM Sarma — refined and elaborated* Imagine a human being born into a world of free, healthy, lush, and unbroken nature—a world where no other humans are present. In such a setting, the developing person does not learn symbolic language first; instead, they learn the sensory language of the living world. Their communication emerges through smell, vibration, sound, and subtle forms of sensing. Every other organism recognizes and responds to those signals. The air becomes a shared medium filled with the biochemical and acoustic messages of flora and fauna. Growing up inside this unbroken field of ecological communication, the individual’s sense of “self” never isolates into a rigid ego. Continuous sensory exchange with other life forms forms a deep, immersive immersion—what might be called *macro identity*. Instead of identifying with the narrow boundaries of an individual body, the person begins to identify with the larger biospheric field. Every organism exhales its perceptions. Every organism inhales the messages of others. Hormonal pathways translate these signals into internal states of perception, emotion, and awareness. Over time, the natural system becomes a vast, distributed mind. The concept of “I” recedes, not because consciousness is lost, but because it merges with the larger consciousness of the biosphere. In such a state, sensing the feelings of another being becomes as natural as sensing the movement of an ant on one’s own skin. Nature becomes an extended body—sometimes even more sensitive, more alive, more intimate than the organism’s own biological skin. The macro identity becomes the grounding reality. ------------------------------ *The Collapse into Ego* But when humans destroy flora and fauna in the name of economic activity, the macro identity loses its foundation. With fewer organisms to respond, echo, and reciprocate sensory messages, one’s communication goes unanswered. The ecological conversation falls silent. When the external world ceases to sense you, the self collapses inward. The human being becomes sealed inside their own skull, trapped within the narrow boundaries of the ego. Cut off from the biospheric feedback loop, one grows self-centered, anxious, egomaniacal, desperate for recognition—an “economic man” shaped by scarcity of attention. Only occasionally do close relationships—family, friends, a partner—restore a fragment of the ancient sensing ability. Their attention briefly reopens a window to the lost macro identity. But even this is fragile, because economics has eroded everyone’s natural capacity for deep perception. ------------------------------ *The Hunger for Notice* Deprived of the vast and subtle acknowledgment once provided by nature, modern humans develop a chronic starvation for notice. This manifests as constant shouting for recognition—debates, arguments, displays of dominance, breaking records in volume or visibility. These are desperate attempts to compensate for the collapse of the ecological communicative web. When nature is whole and free, we organically develop the macro identity. When nature is destroyed, our bodies become our prisons. Economics, by isolating us from the sensory field of life, turns the human body into a jail cell of ego. ------------------------------ *The Way Forward* If human beings are to reclaim psychological and spiritual freedom, they must restore the ecological networks that once allowed the macro identity to flourish. We need free, healthy nature not just for survival, but for the recovery of the full human self—our ability to transcend the narrow ego and re-enter the living field of the biosphere. Economics has given us many tools, but by severing us from nature, it has made us strangers to ourselves. To heal, we need not simply economic reform, but *ecological reconnection*. Only then can the macro identity return. ------------------------------ If you’d like, I can: ✅ simplify this into a short essay ✅ convert it into a poetic or metaphorical piece ✅ expand it into a philosophical or scientific article ✅ help you prepare it for publication or a talk Just tell me your preference. -- 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/CACDCHCKrjd-Fb_aH6u51iXMCA2-auVnVzN%2BpRk6swCLF8KeFZg%40mail.gmail.com.
