Man Market and Machine: Some Food for Thought

Every man-made mechanism is a toy of man; modern science is only just the theory behind this mechanism. That mechanization 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.

Man of nature will inherit the Earth
Man of nature is the richest man on earth and he, through his children and coming generations, will inherit the earth ever after. We measure one's richness when his richness can guarantee the continuity of stability, health, freedom and values, the security of himself and his future generations.

And the man of machine, be he the present six billion or just only six in numbers, is sure to meet the reactions of his own actions—as is already visible—and his premature death as his growing weakness and encroaching degeneration of almost all his faculties, shows. Ownership and enjoyment of the services of a plethora of machines only prove one's weakness to live without these modern `inconvenience'; they don't basically show his power, richness or clout. Man of nature like all other species lived millions of years without these machines and he may live another similar period without these. John
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