World of misconceptions and globalisation

By Julian Sudre








Scientists know how to use their brains while philosophers know how to use their minds. The cold war between those two dynamics have engendered conflicts and a perpetual disparity that swings the pendulum of reason into the delphic pronouncements of rationales.

Although, the quest for the fundamental answer that humanity has comprehended and established a pattern of distinctive evolution, the latter has not been concommitant with Earth's adaption of our deeds. The whimsical attributes of the scientists have confounded the conceptions of progress and therefore philosophical questions have emerged. If scientific progress has enabled to quicken our material needs, those needs have degenerated into anthropocentric pressures that eleminate all thoughts of altruism. The antithesis between compassion and egocentric-cum technology has precipitated an affront of cataclysmic results. Darwinism, to a certain degree, propounds that the mutation of our species by a natural cycle injects continuity in the linear time. Nevertheless the evolution of species by natural selection is rendered limited if our philosophy of captivating the essence of Nature's verity is diminished.

The insatiable need to develop most of the Earth has caused an ecological crisis, human overpopulation and extinctions of many non-human species. On an environmental level, we have followed the route of Machiavelli who was heard to say "It is much safer to be feared than loved." Machiavelli not only described a world but created one and consequently we have been inspired by it and contructed our political, social and economic conceptions.
Francis of Assisi spoke of brother Sun, sister Moon, brother Wolf; and of water, fire, trees and people as brothers and sisters as well.
Christianity has been critical of anthropocentrism as humanity is placing its own desires ahead of the teaching of Christ which leads to rampant selfishness. From a Buddhism perspective, the very core of globalisation and inherent progress is the cause of craving. Craving is the root cause of suffering. It could be said, mankind has absorbed an unconscious derivative of addictions that only a disaster could annihilate.
Our Western Judaeo-Christian civilization has been the result of many bifurcations we have determined. We have gone for superlative schemes to empower ourselves and our nations. The great Spanish Philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasser pointed out: "I am myself and my circumstances." Therefore we have found comfort in a certain dissociation from Nature by torturing her in order to extract from her what we believe to be the truth. We have conformed to Bacon's philosophy who was a fervent believer in absolute truth.
We are still under the spell of Galileo and Newton and Descartes. We have avoided Goethean science and Picot and Francis as science is the supreme manifestation of reason and reason is the supreme attribute of the human being.

Symptoms of narcissism and depression appear to be the major illnesses of our actions. But deep down, I daresay, the reductionist science and neo-liberal globalisation have metamorphosed our reality into schizophrenic confusion of where we are and what we have achieved. The parameters of understanding the laws of cause and effects have been cast aside, as mankind basks in complacency and believes that it knows a lot but understands very little.

The ontological argument and Pantheism should be harmonised in the interest of re-creating communities and fraternities and eradicate globalisation for localisation. We perhaps should accept more our intuition and spirituality to heal the wounds of the Earth. As the Earth is the reflect of our soul, we would relish the oneness and collective consciousness of the universe, tame our schizophrenia, and soothe the pains of ignorance we have absorbed.

We are witnessing the systematic karma of our modern Pac-man society and the disintegration of spiritual advancement. Once, we will get to comprehend that linear time is a misconception that cannot be boxed into another dimension and that we have delineated our successes only on a material level, the environmental, political and social problems alongside our own existence will mend apace.