Man Market and Machine: Some Food for Thought

[Guest guest]

Every mechanism, including modern science, is a toy of man-- modern

science being just the theory behind this mechanism. That it has

come to stay as a fundamental system of human society today is not

the fault of its creators but that of its foolish followers. For, a

toy is just a tool for the moment's pleasure--escape—which, on the

other hand, is foolery or damage to the basic faculties if practiced

for long and on a wider scale

 

Techniques of modern science may not be as harmful for the individual

human beings to practice as they are for the whole society, for the

individual always has an option to fall back on the society or on the

nature whenever he happens to be thus in trouble, whereas the whole

society has none such options, especially at a time when there is no

such thing as a natural nature, except an artificial or highly

polluted nature, to fall back on . Modern science was not as harmful

and suicidal to the whole human society and even to the planet today

as when it was practiced only by a `nation of shopkeepers' at its

start in modern era, a couple of centuries back

 

A small example of this wanton foolery, among thousands such

examples, is the foolery of behind the technique of modern fast food

culture that is rendering almost 1/3rd of the present global

population OBESE which goes on making man infertile and leading to

other widespread, incurable degenerative diseases and death—just as

the modern foolery of the soil with the technique of chemical

fertilizers and pesticides goes on rendering the soil too infertile

and the eventual death of soil all over the globe.

 

Discovery of a degenerated mindset due to another affliction—another

foolery of modern society (a by-product of modern science-market

mindset) called democracy—is a survey-based socialization process in

which the character of the mass is used as the model, especially by

the market. That in democracy, if the majority can be fooled then it

is right to be fooled; if majority suffers from a problem then it is

no longer a problem; if majority is in ruin then to be in ruin is the

right, etc. No wonder, today's businesslike advice as, `be positive',

has almost become a catchy, popular message and a password for

reaping `success stories' in modern society!

 

But only the modern market mandarins can tempt you with such

perverted versions of optimism today. Numbers has never solved great

questions of the society. " Even if fifty million people say a foolish

thing, it is still a foolish thing " , wrote Anatole France.

 

 

 

And, at last, when man has fallen ill, because of this long foolery,

market has taken it only as a windfall—no matter it (market economy)

is the leader of man today. For, behind the spread and exploitation

behind this foolery was market, always—be it the `colonization' by

the `nation of shopkeepers' at its start or the present market

economy leadership today as it shouts and cry for more and more

globalization.

 

 

Let us now conclude the story of MODERN foolery—modern man claims it

as his `achievement'-- like this: what man could not `achieve' in

millions of years modern man `achieved' in just a few hundred years—

his near extinction, as a species.

 

Today, to put up with this foolery syndrome in modern science any

longer can never be in the realm of man with a grain of common sense.

Those who know this reality and yet consider themselves as `worldly

wise' should bear in mind that their effort for the moment's escape—

their unwillingness to compromise their statuesque—is proving a

catastrophic foolery not only for `others'(for the whole mankind) but

also the fact that this `others' include themselves.

 

M.J.John

http://www.fireflysun.com/book/john.php

[Guest guest]

Yes, I agree with most of this, but you forgot one very important point. WHY!

Why do people do this? Why do they toute all these things as great miracles of

science and refuse to listen to any other opinions? The answer is simple.

Selfishness. It is easier to not have to think, selfishly saving your brain

and time for what pleasures that you want. It is Selfish desire for

instantanious gratification with no work that leads to both fast food and soil

pollution with fertilizers. I want it and I want it now! We now are in our

third or fourth generation of people who have not known want, who build useless

gadgets to take up their time because they are not involved with doing anything

worth while. Hard work is not a virtue, it is for suckers, and it is more

respected to find a way around it, and stick someone else with the problems

than to grit your teeth and do it yourself.

 

Industries have long valued the bottom line above the health and safety of their

workers, but now we are in a state where the industies desire for money is

contaminating not just the environment, but our food and even our bodies as

they peddle their miracle cures each with side effects needing more miracle

cures.

 

And where is society going with this? Just ask the people who neglect their

children by pursuing their " satisfying " careers. The men and women who just

want nice little dolls they can trot out occasionally and then put back in

nanny governed storage. Or the men and women who have their children in

daycare from 5 a.m. til 10 p.m. (yes there are daycares open that late and that

early.) Children are only to make them feel good, to make them feel

fulfilled-- selfishness. And what are they teaching the next generation? Each

one has been more self indulgent than the last since we left the family farm.

Each generation has been more involved with self gratification, having more

things, instant fulfillment and whatever cost (as long as they think someone

else is paying the cost.)

 

So what has this to do with natural healing? Simple. Man (and I am using the

correct English gender neutral) is more than physical. He is also emotional,

spiritual, mental and social. Each is as important as the other in determining

well being. The five parts of man are so intensely integrated that they have

an effect on the others. Depression (a mental and sometimes spiritual ill) has

physical ramifications, as does stress, loneliness and even selfishness. It is

not enough to focus on the purely physical manifestations of greater problems.

Other underlying ills must be addressed before the physical can be solved. The

selfish desease must be cured.

Ramona

 

 

 

Quoting muthukat <muthukat:

>

> Today, to put up with this foolery syndrome in modern science any

> longer can never be in the realm of man with a grain of common sense.

> Those who know this reality and yet consider themselves as `worldly

> wise' should bear in mind that their effort for the moment's escape—

> their unwillingness to compromise their statuesque—is proving a

> catastrophic foolery not only for `others'(for the whole mankind) but

> also the fact that this `others' include themselves.

>

> M.J.John

> http://www.fireflysun.com/book/john.php