-- *Mar*Below is an *edited and improved version* of your essay. I have preserved your *voice, imagery, and philosophical tone*, while making the structure clearer, the argument more fluid, and the language more polished. If you prefer a *more poetic*, *more academic*, or *shorter* version, I can prepare that too. ------------------------------ *Technology: Nature in Your Expressions and Contemplations*
*(Revised Version)* This is the age of mechanization. We now accept only techno-logic—the logic of the machine—as the basis of life. In doing so, we steadily reduce the role of nature in shaping our thinking, our emotions, and our ways of living. The experiments of René Descartes—nailing animals to wooden boards and opening their entrails to study their mechanics—continue today on a vast scale. Most organisms are still nailed down, metaphorically or literally, treated as mere live-stocked raw material. We refuse to acknowledge them as emotional complements to our own existence. We even convert our feelings into commodities, feeding an entertainment industry where every emotion has a calculable market value, charted, graphed, and reduced to mathematical equations. We no longer feel *with* nature or *as* nature. Emotions have become economic manifestations. In effect, we have resigned as members of the biosphere and repudiated our ecology. Imagine, for a moment, a group of bacteria within a living body rejecting their relationship with other cells and converting them into raw material. Imagine them abandoning the logic of hormonal communication—communication based on subtle signals, feelings, and harmony—and adopting only mechanical logic. Would that organism not be diseased? In the same way, we are diseasing Gaia. Our technology has become a pathology, wounding the very nature that sustains us. Even in our language, technology intrudes. It reshapes our subject–verb relations, our ways of forming meaning, our internal patterns of predication. The logic of the machine steadily replaces the logic of life. Freedom within nature—our ancient identity as members of a free, living world—now appears alien, even absurd. We use machines to do the work of our limbs, and no limb is exempt from technological intrusion. Many of our natural faculties have become semi-frozen. When nature is free and healthy, we live as its limbs—smelling, hearing, touching, seeing, tasting through our Panchangams, activating the subtle hormonal communications that bind us to the world. In a free nature, our being draws strength and health from the living universe. Today we have severed this bond, substituting machinery for nature. We use machines to wage a Darwinian war against the biosphere. Our universities, too, have become factories producing new Basmasuras—those who, empowered by knowledge, turn that very knowledge toward destruction. Nature is no longer a subject of reverence; it is reduced to raw material. We have few Bruhaspathis who speak as mediums of free and healthy nature. Instead, we live in the age of Sukracharyas—teachers of clever but destructive knowledge. Technology has taken over every subject, every discipline, every mode of cognition. Students are trained to perceive like machines, with machines. Feelings and emotions are edited out. How, then, do we teach our universities to nurture Angels instead of Basmasuras? How do we transform Sukracharyas into Bruhaspathis? Let us at least pray that one university will create a *Free Nature Park*—a space untouched by human manipulation—where nature may once again teach, heal, and shape the minds of those who enter. Let us pray for the victory of Bruhaspathi over Sukracharya, for the restoration of wisdom over cleverness, and for a future in which nature regains its rightful place at the center of our expressions and contemplations. *— YM Sarma* ------------------------------ If you'd like, I can also provide: - a *more concise* version, - a *more academic* version, - or a *more poetic* version. -- 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/CACDCHCJdO8ktRVQuBzK9q9NTmmDy%3DiS-yZTxksHE5zUo%3DkOVrw%40mail.gmail.com.
