Me and my friend (oops....this reminds of my English teacher, Mala Shenoy . She used to say: whenever you are using the third person/second person along with first... the first: that is I i.e. you are a donkey and the donkey always comes last". At that time I dint know socialism so well to realize it existed in language rules as well...hahaha ;)) .
Coming back to the topic: my friend and I were discussing my research topic that transformed into a political and then a philosophical issue. It all started with intangible nature of measuring depression. And we hopped on to the intangible nature of every word I am using to write this blog. I am not sure where is this going to lead but I am going to start with what’s on my mind. Everything on the face of the earth is relative to "I". I: as in human. Indeed, the most interesting objects of speculation on my list. For a fraction of moment, imagine the world without humans.
It would still be world of course: much better than it is right now. What am I saying? Indeed, isn't it we who have organized, named earth 'The Earth'. Created new things out of nothing and understood that underlying this random probabilistic piece of huge junk of collated electrons and protons that came from nowhere suspended in space that we call world: is governed by an order? Don't we hear physicists and mathematicians cramping their heads day and night right now for encoding the one universal governing law of nature? We have unraveled the key to most of the things that are under our vision of rationality. From the very origin of universe to the humans. You name it, we have a reason. From space time axioms, black holes, age of earth to heart beat - we have figured it out to the nth degree of accuracy.
Today we live in a world where everything is defined by mechanics: even human relationships. Everything that thrills/evokes our emotions is about: precision (standards), accuracy (repeatability) and speed. It’s the order that dictates every state of mind/action. We have reduced ourselves to the same level: emotions are chemical transmitters, getting along with other human is synchronized with positive or negative vibrations, we have break-up in relationships and we get readjusted or screwed after tuning a little to newer environments. It’s all about mechanics.
What are humans: a bundle of mass (form of energy) that is held in the space time fixation with the help of gravitational force on the surface of a huge crust of heavy body that provides our mainframe source for huge components of raw material to keep its evolutionarily mechanical parts moving? And to balance the energy, this evolutionary gimmick is provided with inbuilt mother board made up of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen leading to attractive forces that transmits itself into another new form.
From road tracks to plants and animals phyla, traffic rules to business transaction, from crimes rates to philanthropy, everything has been organized. We are so obsessed with order that humans were/are subjugated to some arbitrary checkpoints of societal standards of language, literacy, IQ, size weight, color, money, etc.
The whole unorganized flawed ideas of nomadic way of contemplation of ‘whys’ was replaced by modernistic holy scholars like Francis bacon, Newton with more organized scientific‘how’s’? And post modern scholastics later transformed these “Whys and How’s” as a tool subservience of nature by us.
Where else are we heading to from here? Nobody today can just randomly speak their mind or rather emotions. It doesn’t hold any value. And as can be expected, though surrounded by scores of people around us, there are times we just feel a void in our hearts. People are left with no choice but to be untrue to themselves and also to others. Sadly enough, we don't have still one thing straightened up: US.
Yes, the present world is mute concoction of all these trails of history. Yet, we are thousands of miles away from the ‘so called order’. Apologetic for my childlike eccentricities, at this moment of gravity, I got reminded of a movie called 'Pi' whose tag line stated "There will be no order, only chaos".
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