Smita Pani: [World Malayali Club] The mechanical paradigm and the destruction of nature

Tuesday, 26 April 2016

[World Malayali Club] The mechanical paradigm and the destruction of nature

The mechanical paradigm-the total destruction of nature

"Out go sight,sound,taste,touch and smell and along with them has since gone aesthetics and ethical sensibility,values,quality,form;all feelings,motives,intentions,soul,consciousness,spirit.Experience as such is cast out of the realm of scientific discourse."(R.D.Laing)

"The image of the earth as a living organism and nurturing mother served as a cultural constraint restricting the actions of human beings. One does not readily slay a mother, dig into her entails for gold, or mutilate her body...As long as the earth was considered to be alive and sensitive; it could be considered a breach of human ethical behaviour to carry out destructive acts against it."(Carolyn Merchant)

The Universe is a web of infinite causes and effects causes overlapping causes, effects overlapping effects, most paradoxical of all, effects happening before causes. In one clause, the Universe is a gigantic web of the ever changing webs and tides of relationships. The word, to be exact the metaphor, is relationships. Gregory Bateson abhorred the very mechanical view. According to him human beings do not live on the basis of logic, but on the basis of relationships, stories, songs, poems, paintings, prayers, Gods...

Now we see James Lovelock whose theory still called only hypothesis, which says that the earth is a living organism, a living biological entity. I have all the respect for our life scientists. But sir, you studied the life forms by cutting open their entails to know their mechanical structures as though they are not different from your scooter. You mainly studied the dead bodies, not when the organisms are living, singing, dancing...

The mechanical paradigm is mainly based on isolating single causes and effects; to build machines. The reality is the existence of relationships which cannot be dissected into isolated causes and effects. When there are only holons, systems or compositions containing systems, while being the constituents of multiple systems, the mechanical paradigm, miserably fails to deliver. The machines it creates aided by economics only destroy. They are now destroying, polluting and poisoning the land, water, air and most important of all, the entire emotional loving bond between the biosphere and the mother--- Bhoodevi or Gaia. Absence of bias means the absence of the love bond.

While the evolution of sex in the reproduction processes has made relationships enchanting, the mechanical paradigm, aided by economics, is bringing into existence shops that sell bottled sperm, independent women who purchase the sperm from the shop to fertilize the egg in them in a hospital and employ a coolie worker to take the zygote into their wombs to do the coolie pregnancy work.

It is time we give a good bye to the Newtonian-mechanical orthodoxy and return to the Holistic modes of meditation, concentration, trance and positive relations.

LET US NOTE THAT THE DEATH OF A SINGLE PERSON IS ACTUALLY THE DEATH OF TRILLIONS OF ORGANISMS THAT LIVE IN HIM TO ENABLE HIM TO LIVE.IT IS A GIGANTIC EXTINCTION, LEADING TO DECOMPOSITION, PUTRIDITY...WHICH I PERSONALLY ABHORR.

I love life, the dances, songs, poems, friendships, sense of belonging...the non-mechanical relationships. Let us have forests, rivers, waterfalls, lakes, birds, animals, bees... and not machines only in their place as their substitutes.

Phil means love.Sophy means experience. Let us have philosophy or the experience of love and reach Theosophy, the experience of wisdom or the Divine. Mechanization is based on isolating single causes and effects, which is totally unscientific and anti-spiritual.

At the level of energies and particles all mechanical logic fails. After all, space is curved, time is curved or space-time is curved. It means simply that the sub-atomic particles like the photons bend due to gravity. It means that there is simply or very rarely two straight connecting points. The points get into curved paths due to gravity. It brings into question the very logic of cause and effect, the cause creating effect etc,when a body moves at a speed faster than light, which is happening among particles, called the Quantum Entanglement, effects create causes, we just cannot know which is the cause or which is the effect and when the space-time is curved, whether the idea of cause and effect or effects creating causes create any real meaning.