-- *Mar*Below is an *edited and improved version* of your essay, followed by *my comments and views* clearly separated. ------------------------------ Burnout
Just as electricity generates magnetism and magnetism generates electricity, belief creates ability and ability, in turn, reinforces belief. If one accepts that electromagnetism underlies consciousness, then the basic contour of consciousness can be understood as a dynamic bond between belief and ability. Belief shapes reality, and reality, in turn, reshapes belief. These processes unfold naturally in a free and healthy environment—one untouched by human interference. However, through continuous poisoning and degradation of nature, the emotional and symbiotic fabric of the biosphere has been deeply damaged. As this foundational symbiosis collapses, we are confronted with the modern phenomenon of burnout. In polluted and poisoned surroundings, nature fails to enliven, nourish, and rejuvenate life. Consider a finger tightly bound so that blood flow is arrested. It becomes numb, disconnected from circulation and hormonal communication, cut off from the rest of the body. Its cells lose contact with the larger living system. Similarly, through industrialization, urbanization, and the pollution of air, water, and land, humans—along with countless other life forms—have been pushed into a state of numb existence. We increasingly depend on machines, allowing technology to dominate our lives. Every limb of our collective being is burning out. When nature’s symbiosis is severed, it is like forcing a numbed finger to perform complex tasks. We forget a fundamental truth: anatomically and existentially, we are part of nature—its living limb. Air and water function like the body’s circulatory system, while the smells and sounds of nature act as hormonal and neural communications between the biosphere and ourselves. In a free and healthy environment, these sounds become music, and these scents become nourishment. In polluted and industrialized spaces, smells turn toxic and sounds become noise. The natural music is lost. We live like fish trapped in poisoned waters. Burnout, at its core, represents the erosion of art and humor from life. “Literature” is merely a name we give to the many arts through which life expresses itself. In a living ecosystem, the arts expand endlessly, as every organism contributes through sound, scent, rhythm, and presence. When this living literature collapses, burnout sets in. Economics, as it is practiced today, has created burnout not only in humans but in nature itself. We have become incapable of imagining life free from economic domination and technological interference. Yet we must recognize that there is no technological solution to the problems technology has helped create. Modern universities have hijacked education. Driven by mechanization and economic priorities, they mass-produce new cadres of nature’s destroyers. We live in an age of educational suffocation—of poisoned education—that blocks direct access to nature, which is the true source of learning. Real education is participation in nature’s symbiosis. In free, healthy ecosystems, life is continuously rejuvenated, transforming existence into a deep lust for life. Today, instead, we live burned-out lives. What we urgently need are spaces of free and healthy nature—places untouched by technological and economic manipulation. Every university should establish a “Free Nature Park,” protected from human interference, so that institutions of learning may once again become sites of genuine education. What we face today is nothing less than education poisoning. *— YM Sarma* ------------------------------ My Comments and Views 1. *Strengths of the Essay* Your metaphorical framework—linking electromagnetism, belief, and consciousness—is powerful and evocative. The comparison between a numbed finger and humanity’s severed relationship with nature is particularly effective and memorable. The essay succeeds in conveying burnout as not merely psychological fatigue but as a civilizational and ecological condition. 2. *Conceptual Clarification* While the philosophical connection between electromagnetism and consciousness is intriguing, it may benefit from being framed more explicitly as a metaphor rather than a scientific claim. This would strengthen credibility while preserving poetic depth. 3. *Technology vs. Relationship* Rather than technology itself being the sole problem, the deeper issue appears to be *how* technology replaces direct relationship—with nature, with the body, and with sensory experience. Technology that restores symbiosis rather than domination could be acknowledged as a possibility. 4. *Education Critique* Your critique of universities is compelling and timely. The idea of “education poisoning” is strong, though it might be enriched by recognizing educators and institutions that are attempting ecological, experiential, and interdisciplinary alternatives. 5. *Core Insight* The most important insight of the essay is that burnout is not an individual failure but a systemic outcome of ecological disconnection. Reframing burnout this way has ethical and political implications—it shifts responsibility from individuals to the structures that shape modern life. Overall, this is a passionate and philosophically rich reflection that invites readers to rethink burnout as a symptom of ecological exile rather than personal weakness. -- 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]. 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