Wednesday, May 19,
2010
Today
the newspapers carried a piece that there will be no more fish in the oceans
after 40 years...TAKES ME BACK TO THE 70s....when I used to write about it and Led
Zeppelin sung about there being no more fish in the rivers in one of their best
album Led Zeppelin III...
Indeed the world is hurtling slowly but surely into the abyss of no return...close the edge...echoing my anthems since the early 70s...now as one is in ones late fifties...one is helplessly watching the events unfolding relentlessly...and mankind...in its manic suicidal death wish....getting deeper into the morass...the point of no return...its now or never...
Must before one leaves...document the ultimate model of the last frontier...
The top problems mankind is facing are:
1. Global climatic changes
2. International economic and financial crises
3. Dehumanisation and conditioning of the mind
4. Violence and terror
5. Mounting health concerns
6. Widdening economic disparities and poverty
7. Breakdown of the family and social fabric
These are some of the top malaises...
I shall gradually get into the root cause analyses on these crises and then outline solutions for overcoming these seemingly insurmountable problems along with the benefits and possible implementation courses...
Indeed the world is hurtling slowly but surely into the abyss of no return...close the edge...echoing my anthems since the early 70s...now as one is in ones late fifties...one is helplessly watching the events unfolding relentlessly...and mankind...in its manic suicidal death wish....getting deeper into the morass...the point of no return...its now or never...
Must before one leaves...document the ultimate model of the last frontier...
The top problems mankind is facing are:
1. Global climatic changes
2. International economic and financial crises
3. Dehumanisation and conditioning of the mind
4. Violence and terror
5. Mounting health concerns
6. Widdening economic disparities and poverty
7. Breakdown of the family and social fabric
These are some of the top malaises...
I shall gradually get into the root cause analyses on these crises and then outline solutions for overcoming these seemingly insurmountable problems along with the benefits and possible implementation courses...
Saturday, June 5, 2010
The ultimate grammar of life and survival
toolkit for the new millennium....will be published on these pages
soon...forged in the smithy of my universal soulmind.....
Thursday, June 10,
2010
Today
the contradictions of society and the human civilization are tearing asunder
the entire fabric of humanity and our dear planet earth. The social, economic,
financial, natural, health, psychological structures are under tremendous
stress and are breaking down. Instead of accepting the truth and reality that
there is something radically wrong at a fundamental level, human beings and
governments are busy trying to fix the cracks and broken structures with the
same fundamentally flawed logic which in the first place had was responsible
for and led to their collapse. Unless we are able to resolve these deep
irreconcilable inner contradictions and evolve radical solutions diametrically
opposite to all that we have known and so far thought to be the only way things
should be run, human civilization and mother earth shall inexorably morph into
mutations and strange forms which will be far removed from the all that we have
known till today.
Mankind
by nature has been always been inventive and creative. This has been very bane
and hubris of human civilization.
Some
of the major contradictions are:
1. Blind
pursuit for technological progress which is creating Frankensteins which are
threatening to destroy their creators. Some of these frankensteins are:
o Cars
o Air
conditioners
o High
energy appliances and lifestyles
o Washing
machines
o Neon
lights
2. Unbridled
accumulation of wealth
o Collusion
between corporations and governments for reducing taxes, rigging prices,
creating monopolies, entry barriers.
o Stock
markets and misinformation for hiking share prices
o Fudging
balance sheets and window dressing.
o Nexus
between corporates, banks, credit raters, regulators
3. Hyper
competition
- Over
capacity
- Price
wars
- Too
many similar products fighting for finite number of consumers.
- There
is limit to number of gadgets, appliances which people can own
- Huge
numbers who cannot afford
4. Hyper
comfort seeking live styles
- Man
is creating all types of labour saving devices
- With
higher living standards, greater desire for leisure
5. Mindless
innovation
- Continuous
incremental innovation which basically does not add value
6. Materialistic
acquisition
7. Pleasure
seeking, hedonism
The
undesired results of the above actions have been most harmful. These
deleterious outcomes have become flashpoints driving humanity to the point of
no return. Some of them are:
1. Global
climate change
o Melting
of the Arctic
o Rising
sea levels
o Rising
temperatures
o Shortage
of potable water
o Food
shortage
o Increasing
incidence and intensity of tornados, cyclones
o Shrinking
ozone layer
o Flash floods
2. Economic
and financial crisis:
o Financial
meltdown
o Corrupt
practices of Wall Street and international banking
o Corporate
greed and avarice living from quarter to quarter with an eye on the stock
prices
o Hyper
competition and over capacity
3. Mental
illness:
o Depression
o Loneliness
o Alienation
o Mindless
murders
o Violence
4. Health
o Obesity
o Cancer
o Psychosomatic
diseases
o Malnutrition
o Increasing
diabetes, blood pressure, and other lifestyle diseases
5. Social
o Increasing
terrorism
o Sexual
perversion
o Crime
Where
are we heading for? Are we hurtling into the abyss of no return? We need to
urgently address these issues in a holistic fashion and evolve a New Grammar of
Living. The basic tenets and building blocks of the New Grammar of Living are:
1. Green
living:
o Reducing
use of and dependence on high energy
o Adopting
solar energy, CFCs, LEDs
o Planting
trees
o Organic
food
o Minimum
and only essential use of air conditioning
o Conserving
water
o Ecological
balance
o Rain
water harvesting
2. Simpler
and wholesome lifestyles
o Reducing
materialistic and consumer lifestyles
o Yoga
as way of life: meditation and pranayam
o Return
to pastoral lifestyles
o Spiritualism
and mysticism
o Humanism
o Back
to nature
o Deconditioning
3. De-industrialisation
o Stop
mindless production of cars, etc
o Scaling
down high polluting industries
4. Evolving
new economic structures
o Creating
massive employment in green activities such as agriculture, agro based
industries, education…
o Limiting
growth of large cities
o Creation
of sustainable self sufficient economic communities
o Poverty
aleviation
o Limits
on wealth accumulation
5. Social
6. Psychological
(work
in progress - incomplete)
Saturday, June 12,
2010
The
events unfolding daily are a veritable theatre of the absurd...The insanity of
modern society is a dance macabre. Society is hell bent upon chasing dreams
which contain the very seeds of it destruction. Everyone is a mad pursuit of
going up the social ladder which is based upon the parameters of:
1. Wealth
in terms of money
2. Position
3. larger
houses
4. cars
5. technological
gadgets
6. possessions
7. property
8. exploiting
the have nots
9. limitless
wants
10. high
energy lifestyles
11. denuding
mother earth of its resources
The
list goes on ad infinitum. The result is increasing violence, sickness,
corruption, irreversible climatic changes, unhappiness, shallowness, systemic
collapse of economic and financial structures....
The obsession with so called progress and lucre is reaching frightening proportions. Is there no way out of this morass....
The obsession with so called progress and lucre is reaching frightening proportions. Is there no way out of this morass....
micro eco approach to all problems....general
eqm solns....
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