Mankind Commits Suicide; Market Celebrates

(This essay was published by this author in many internet discussion groups in Nov. 2007)






Massively and globally infected by the parasite called MODERN MAN—a species that has outgrown the human species--the great grand human tree is falling

Man gave birth to machine. Market, as the middleman in modern history, joined man and machine to give birth to a new combination-- man-machine--called the Modern Man. The process of this machination continued to the full mechanization of mankind to MACHINE-KIND, rendering the age fully mechanical.

Market, by using the non-cyclic Modern Science and Modern Art (some prefer to call them as analytical science and analytical philosophy, respectively) and, thus by tampering with the millions of year long natural cyclic process, has created a vicious cycle, and that is where we are all in: the Modern Society.

However no machine can sustain--let alone reproduce--itself. Every machine has an inbuilt program for its own destruction. The modern man-machine is no exception, which, as a unique species, is on the verge of extinction today.

Machination of Mankind

Machination of mankind started at the moment when man became a professional and encouraged others to become professionals-- mechanical (or the machine-like beings) for the sustenance of his own way of life--professionalism. Thus man became a parasite of the same species. Globalization of machination made the whole mankind a giant social machine.
The living is sustained by eating the live; the non-living, like the machine, is sustained or fueled by the dead or non-living food. Thus man should eat live food whereas machine is run by the dead fossils (fuels). Modern man prefers the dead food like the junk food and highly processed and other synthetic foods, because he is mostlymechanical and leastly, human.
Degenerating Mankind and the fast Shrinking Options

Today man is doing all things in the wrong way simply because there is no option left to do it in the right way. What frightens me is not merely the fact that America had to kill Saddam Hussein to bring peace to the world, but the fact that it simply had no other option left.
Mankind is committing suicide. And Market is celebrating it by toying in the arts, the sciences, the media, the judiciary, the politicians, the experts, the voluntary organizations…. For the first time in history, man is suicidally caught in a deadly vicious circle of his own making, from which not even the leaders seem to find any way out. George W. Bush, Tony Blair, Vladamin Putin, Bill Gates,….. are all being functioning as the puppets, being operated by the force of the `current' of this vicious cycle. It is a fact that only the right leadership can develop a right society. The problem today is that man has only helpless leader-- leaders with no options to do the right things. This means the whole society is vitiated and thus the society can prop up only wrong leaders. We have seen that the whole modern society itself is highly vitiated and is on the verge of demise with the vitiation havingreached the extreme chronic stage.
Human society, as a whole, is treading without on agenda. Badly and suicidally caught in the current of this giant vicious circle, man is led more by his passivity than by his activity.

Ignorance is Knowledge divided: the Growing De-knowledge Process
For millions of years, man used to live in exploiting nature, by feeding on it which is a very simple method for which not much training is needed. However, in modern history, man lives by exploiting and feeding, not on nature, but on another man, which, however, is a complex and complicated process for which muchtraining and `know-how' is needed. This being a fraud process, in which much has to be done in denying the right knowledge and information to the exploited party by the exploitive party. This explains the hectic spreading much ignoratism and disinformation today. The process is a one-up game. The modern education process isindeed a cumulative process of adding more and more years to such real de-knowledge process.

It is a pity that man, despite being the pride and the crown of all creation and also being the longest living species of the planet earth since millions of years, has however to leave the planet earth prematurely. It is not because of the overgrowth of human population or the shrinking of life resources which are some of the popularreasoning which many would like us to believe. It is precisely because, in modern history, man, in his marathon race to develop `technics' – he calls it science or know–how–for exploiting and feeding on his co-species, lost his real knowledge or `know how' to live in nature which he used to do for millions of year. So, beit 7 billions people or 7 people on planet earth, the number simply does not matter so far as he lost the natural rhythm to live, and that he has to go extinct.

Today, because man has become such a liability to himself and has became a parasite that even as a single human being, he is unable to perform the role of man, and thus he has become unfit to live in nature.

The Invisible World Leadership
The leader of all leaders is the Mr. Invisible. He is not any President, Prime Minister, King or Queen. Nor is he the Pope nor the Mullah, nor he the richest man nor any Nobel Laureate. All these categories of leaders however are just the servants of this super leader.Then, who is he? Certainly, he is not a human being. Bible described him as the Lucifer. Mary Shelly called him the Frankenstein. However, in reality, he is what we see him everywhere today : as the Mr. Helplessness, the Mr. Passivity, the Mr. Ignorance, the Mr. Optionlessness…etc.

Vitiation of Leadership
It is a fact that only the right leadership can develop a right society. The problem today is that man has only helpless leader-- leaders with no options to do the right things. This means the whole society is vitiated and thus the society can prop up only wrong leaders. We have seen that the whole modern society itself is highly vitiated and is on the verge of demise with the vitiation having become much chronic.

Why the society today has exhausted its ability to elect good leaders? In 1984, the renowned historian and two-time Pulitzer Prize- winner Barbara Tuchman published "The March of Folly," a book about how, over and over again, great powers undermine and sabotage themselves. She documented the perverse self-destructiveness ofempires that clung to deceptive ideologies in the face of contrary evidence, that spent carelessly and profligately, and that obstinately refused to change course even when impending disaster was obvious to those willing to see it. Such recurrent self-deception.

We are suicidally foolish
Today we have created a Frankenstein that frightens us at every step. This Frankenstein is the giantification of our follies and our weakness. We thus fear our own follies. Corruption or other social fouling was not a problem when it was localized and controllable, or when it could be understood and recognized as such--not like today when it is practiced globally, not only as the only option left but also that it has become such popular that it is unrecognizable as corruption. The corruption of society has been so mechanized and methodized, and suchmaterialistic pursuit of wealth so conditioned into the culture for so many years, that the chronic symptoms of the disease have mutated into full-fledged epidemics crystallized as passivity, obesity, cancer, hypertension etc.. …

It's human nature to believe that things will continue as they usually have, and that we'll once again somehow stumble intact through our looming crises. At the same time, it's hard to imagine a plausible scenario in which the society regains its equilibrium, if at all it may regain, without first going through major convulsionsat a unique unsafe time when highly catastrophic powder kegs, mainly environmental and numbering tens of thousands, are spread all over.

Passivity and Americans
And, at long last, the last bastion too falls: Americans too are increasingly caught under the fear phobia. Long accustomed to frighten the world at large under false alarm and under false omen (as part of their strategy), Americans who, in reality, used to be courageous, well-informed, spontaneous and very timely responding tohuman dangers today seem to be caving into the fear phobia. Being well-informed—and much in advance, thanks to their superior intelligence work-- Americans used to be much immunized against the virus of pessimism and other false threat. But today, the case is no longer true. Today, 95% of the people all over the Americans, thanks to globalization says `yes' to the prevailing system dictates when they really want to say `no'.

Money, the Evil
If Jesus Christ happened to live today, Coco Cola would definitely have tried to make Him its top brand ambassador. Today all work and pray to God to give them what we all once considered as evil, namely, money. For nobody today works to produce anything for their own use but in producing things for selling toothers to earn money to buy their wants (indirect life style). Today anybody may live without God but not without his `paycheck' or money, the real evil. So the way to salvation is only through EVIL; God is just a means to attain his real `God', namely money, the evil. So he prays to God to give him his daily `bread' (money), byhook or by crook.
Market leadership is money leadership--is Devil leadership: "It you make money your god, it will plague you like a devil", the old saying has come true. The agony of modern man is that he can live only by availing the loan or advances from the market for his moment's escape which later proves to be a false escape leading to sickness and destruction in the near future. This means he cannot live today without guaranteeing his destruction tomorrow.

Modern age is marked by the sharp change of man from being the child of nature and father machine to be the father of nature and to be the child of machine--hi-tech systems.
Truth is never going to be traced, for today it is untruth which is tracing truth today and untruth is his incapable of understanding and recognizing truth, let alone be able to tracking it down.
The British did not colorize the world. The modern science and market did it. And that is why the whole world – including the British, no matter the colonized world hypothetically drove away the British colonizers--- are still in the captivity of science and market. The ongoing Globalization frenzy by the market is a Juggernaut that is out of control, dominated by a corporate world- system that is able to shift resources to any part of the globeregardless of national interests. Apart from that, globalization is destroying the nation-state.

Media: simply another Business
Media only ceased their role as social informers. Ever since their integration with market force and their starting functioning as an industry, it got its role got just reversed: now as the social mis-informers, dis-informers and as the hiders and manipulators of truth and realities. And it is in the manipulation of truth and realities where the making of profit--money-- lies. And an industry is all about making profit.

Today, individual media people are as helpless and as innocent as the people at large. They can only play to the sway of the ongoing trends meticulously being played by the global players and thus remain in business, or they can go out of business and jeopardize their carrier by being independents and by doing justice to truth,realities and to their conscience.

The World on the Run
Exploitation of man by man has been the hallmark of human civilization from immemorial. But it had never reached the suicidal level until the mode of exploitation changed from being physical to spiritual in modern history.

What is wrong in theory cannot be right in practice. Science is basically wrong, be it in minute fraction, mathematically. Modern society is a giant machine exclusively built by modern science and market and it is with loopholes and cracks at every branch and sub branch. And a small leak- let alone many big leaks -- is enough tosink a giant ship.

What America did to planet earth in terms of pollution generation in the last 50 years, India and China are doing to it in five years today. The question is whether the planet will tolerate more `Americas'—the ongoing frenzied modernization drive in the rest world-- particularly at a line when it is surrounded by not much natural recycling zones, as buffer zones, to compensate any further mechanization – throttling of nature. As modernization picks up for the whole planet in one go with the ongoing globalization and liberalization going on a frenzied pitch and as SOS signals seem emanating from here and there, I think the human society in all poised for the impending Big Crunch.

For a while, scientists, mathematicians, engineers and doctors, by controlling nature, baffled mankind through their stunning achievements, discoveries and technologies. Now it is the turn of nature to show its `marvels' and super stunning `techniques', too. The question is whether any scientists, engineers and doctors –and their sponsors-- let alone any ordinary human being, will be left behind in the ensuing melee to witness the great nature's show.

Progression of ignorance renders lasting solution almost impossible
The greatest dilemma of the time is that we can destroy the human society without its knowledge and consent, whereas it is impossible to save man with his knowledge and consent because, in this age of all sorts of massive exploitation of man by man, all sorts of false `prophets'—phony saviors and fake problem solvers who always win with false promises and sure betrayals, have thus immunized the whole society against all genuine attempt in helping mankind or saving them. Further, the cognition capacity of modern man to understand wholesome truth is fast getting reduced today as the machine-like species has only the higher compartmentalized and specialized mindset. Modern man is expert in being micro right even as he remains macro wrong which is far beyond his micro vision to recognize.

Despite being bluntly exploitive the mechanized part of the planet earth and the mechanized part for the artificial of the human society used to be well taken care of by the larger non-mechanized part (natural part) of the planet earth and human society since the last 200 years. The exploitation (by the highly mechanized world still continues with more force and speed, but what is not happening is the `taking care of'. For the fast globalization that is taking place at a frenzied pitch since the last two decades has not left any part of the planet earth natural or non-mechanized. Now, in order to be taken care of by nature, we urgently need to immigrate to some non-mechanized part of the world which seem to be only outside the planet earth, like the moon or the planet Venus.

And who will inherit the Earth?
The sons and daughters of mother earth and, the sons and daughters of natures will inherit the earth. The sons of machine never will, for they have no base.

Yes, I have enough evidence – as personal experience--to regard the above conclusions as correct. "The survival of the human race depends on its ability to find new homes elsewhere in the universe because there's an increasing risk that a disaster will destroy the Earth, and that humans should have a permanent base on the moon in 20 years and a colony on Mars in the next 40 years.", said Stephen Hawking, the greatest scientist of our time and the author of the global best seller A Brief History of Time. One of the best-known theoretical physicists of his generation, Hawking, who was on a lecture tour in Hong Kong, was speaking to the press on June05, 2006, according to an Associated Press report. He has done groundbreaking research on black holes and the origins of the universe, proposing that space and time have no beginning and no end. "We won't find anywhere as nice as Earth unless we go to another star system and start settlement in anotherplanet" Hawking added.

Earlier, 1,300 leading scientists from 95 countries who published a detailed assessment of the state of the world at the start of the new millennium had concluded: "Earth's life support system is disintegrating; the modern society is literally undoing the work of organic evolution; the institutions we have created are destroying the livability of the whole world. Planet Earth stands on the cusp of disaster and people should no longer take it for granted that their children and grandchildren will survive in the environmentally degraded world of the 21st century."As is evident, the above central observations are not the doom-laden talk of green activists. Until recently, the talk of any possible global collapse or big crunch was the preserve of lunatics and cults. In the past few years, however, an increasing number of intelligent and credible people have been warning that global collapse is a genuine possibility. And many of them are great, sober scientists, including Lord May, David King and Jared Diamond —people not usually given to exaggeration or drama.

As for the condition of man today, his position in society seems much frightening. Human resource, the world discovers, has today become a liability, not an asset. Sometimes it feels cruel that we are proceeding at a breakneck speed towards more sophisticated automation when labour is so cheap and the unemployment situation so acute. Even after getting employed with much effort or luck, we are also seeing a disturbing trend where one can be gainfully employed only for a very short time. By the time one approaches the late 30's one can sense the pink slip approaching. Career opportunities for the middle aged are restricted. The board room is getting younger by the day with young recruits occupying senior positions. The future seems bleak. To keep up with the times, one has to earn fast and earn the maximum while the going is good. All our efforts at framing a corruption-less society may well be a dream. Honesty and ethics are all loads on the shoulder; they have to be offloaded in order to progress in the "right direction". Honesty is no longer the best policy; it is a millstone around the neck. It is no surprise to realize to fast emerging fact that man everywhere today has come to increasingly think that he has no future. Never in the history of mankind has man faced such a pathetic state of his society when he, along with his global leaders and even his religions have all come to be led by such a pathetic force called the market force.

More terrifying is the news from the human health front. A decade ago, Clifton Meador, MD, director of the Meharry Vanderbilt Alliance in Nashville, predicted that it wouldn't be long before there wasn't a single healthy person left in the United States. Now his forecast might have come to fruition."I don't know the last time I saw areally well person," said Dr. Meador, "Everybody's got something." "Are we all sick?" Doctors debate "medicalization" of life. Human conditions previously thought of as normal now warrant treatment. Medical guidelines are being expanded. And genetic tests are turning more people into patients.

Obesity alone is killing an average of about 30, 00, 00 Americans every year and the figure is steadily increasing. Now if we take the toll by diabetes and cancer, the twin diseases for which obesity in the prime cause, the death figure may well exceed a million in America alone, in a single year alone. That almost 60 percent of American population today suffers from obesity is the most startling news of all. This ratio of disease and death may roughly be the same for the whole world with globalization being the order of the day.And far more frightening are the news emanating about health affairs of the very doctors who treat the global population. The latest fact that doctors die much earlier than the common people speak volumesfor the malice and confusion gripping the present social going of human society. Indian Medical Association (Kerala branch), in its Annual Working Report 2006 revealed this disturbing survey details: "When the average life expectancy of people of Kerala (a state with 30 million people) is 72, the average life expectancy ofdoctors in Kerala has come down to 55.", according to newspaper Mathrubhumy July01, 2006. That the fast falling health of professionals, due to the prevalence of degeneration.

The Degeneration of Mankind
This is about the sudden and across-the- board degeneration that has set in on the species man as a whole inmodern history, which is all set to mark the end of mankind as a species. Or, it is about the modern social development and as to how man and nature, contrary to their co-existence for millions of years as mutually interconnected and interdependent, have suddenly entered on a collision course in modern history, and embarked on its eventual and inevitable fallout.

The concept describing the "degeneration" of Man is inseparable from that of the evolution of Man. In truth, people of the modern world have been taught to view the history of mankind almost entirely upside-down. We speak of "the rise of Man" and assume "the ignorance of ancient peoples", when in actual fact nothing could be more the contrary. From a more objective point of view, the history of mankind on this Earth has apparently been a progressive descent or degeneration; a degeneration which appears to have reached it's nadir in exactly this period in which we are now living.

Degenerating life sources
In 2020, we may well be asking not, "Why we didn't go to Venus?" but "Why did we go to moon when we couldn't protect earth?" Mind and matter, man and nature are interconnected and interdependent. At the dawn of civilization when man was hunting and gathering food, nature remained almost undisturbed. During the ageof settled agricultural life, irrigation schemes were developed and the face of nature was modified to a certain extent. The industrial revolution brought about further changes with excessive exploitation of natural resources and mass production. The twentieth century, which boasts of 90% of the scientists the world has ever produced,has ushered in the Nuclear Age and the Space Age.

Thus we see how human ideas have brought about vast changes in nature, to such an extent that Nature's purifying, rejuvenating and replenishing capacities have been outstripped by man's activity of exploitation, causing unprecedented pollution and impoverishment. Then there developed other types of degeneration, like moral, mental, intellectual, sexual degenerations. When moral degeneration becomes rampant in society, it causes adverse changes in the human body and in our environment. Moral degeneration causes the loss ofbeauty in the human personality and depletion of natural food resources in the external world. These adverse repercussions are proportionate to the extent of moral degradation.

War and natural calamities, epidemics of fatal diseases seem the only solution. Or is it? That is a question no one likes to answer, but the answer stares us in the face. There is no escaping it. As for the new doomsayers, they all point to the same collection of threats — climate change, resource depletion and spreading diseasesbeing the most important. What makes them especially afraid is that many of these dangers are interrelated, with one tending to exacerbate the others. It is necessary to tackle them all at once if we are to have any chance of avoiding global collapse, they warn.

When Stephen Hawking published, in 1988, the global best seller A Brief History of Time, which contained none of the above kind of dangers, this author had written and published the book, Story of Man—Layman, in New Delhi in 1990 (released by then Indian Prime Minister, Chandra Shekhar) which not only contained most of theabove observations--literally--but also brought out the basic reason behind these imminent catastrophic developments. So, if this author did put forward in 1990 what the greatest scientists and futurists of our times could consider only some 16 years later, I think, I have enough evidence – as personal experience--regarding the soundness of my present conclusions, as well.

The prophetic accuracy of this thesis: Released by then Indian Prime Minister Chandra Sekhar in Jan 1991, and received by the national press and other prominent authors, including then American ambassador to India, this book predicted almost all major global events that took place from 1991 till today. As a document of prophetic accuracy, the theses portrayed a professional as victim of conditioned methods with virtually no conscience as mechanization deprives him of the luxury of possessing a soul or humanist conscience. He has to do things business as usual, and whatever he does becomes his profession which then becomes more important thanhimself or his fellowmen and which then vitiate him to the extent that, modern man says "he has no time to take his time". Man ends up a victim of his profession, his pre-set goals and conditioned methods which simply deprive him the freedom to look at things differently, and thus deprives him the luxury of different optionsor different angles of visions in finding solutions. And these are what this author predicted as the Dangers of Professionalism that did happened as the major global events over these years from 1991 till today. What prevented to stop the attacks on the U.S. of September 11, 2001 or what prompted to execute this attack, wasindeed the dirty works of professionals, called experts and advisers, and what prevented America to foresee or get wind of the much inside America trained and executed terrorists acts was again professionalism or careerism practiced by the very professionals in respective intelligence wings in America, as has been vindicated by later studies.

And, the basic reason for this imminent catastrophic development, which I advanced then was PROFESSIONALISM, which however was not only considered aboon and something positive at that time. But today professionalismhas come under attack by many meaningful intellectuals andscientists. For more on professionalism, please click on to:http://www.fireflysun.com/book/john.php


From pages 8,9,10,11,12..of Story of Man—Layman published in 1990:

"Humanity is at the crossroads; turning to every direction, it shudders", reads the book's very back cover

……."Today man is at the threshold of an emerging NEW CIVILIZATION; only the blind forces of professional expertise is suppressing it, with the result that a new counter-revolution is lashing man…….."Having breached all permissible barriers, worldly wisdom, in its latest incarnation as PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE (life reduced to marketized careerism or life commercialized by techniques), has cometo dominate such sacred human fields as his thought, belief, science, and literally all his social systems. It is today helplessly left holding its babies: the mechanized thinking, the mechanized religion, the mechanized SCIENCE, and all politics, ethics, aesthetics, arts, crafts and state-craft--all thoroughly mechanized. All these mechanized components of man and his world— which are on a further proliferation race (thanks to thespecializations and expertise that his professionalism has come to perfect)—are without life, degenerating and sending SOS signals from everywhere. After getting bogged down in the jargons of expertise, the world and the experts themselves are furthwer getting badly bogged down—in the resultant vicious circles…………

…….."science itself has become party in perpetuating such unscientific practices….. The tragic result is that science today has menacingly outgrown man and all his beloved systems. Science is simply out of human control now. IT is virtually holding man to ransom, by giving him more perilous problems and questions thantoday's man or science itself can understand, let alone solve…………...

" Professional expertise is the number one enemy of new ideas and the creative growth. It has in the process also crippled its very mentors, namely, the establishments and their infrastructures…………

"A stage reaches when the helpless establishment and its outgrown expertise fail to develop the NEXT GENERATION PROFESSIONALS and EXPERTS to attend to the newly created more serious problems; for any professionals and experts that outgrow the establishment soon begin to degenerate: professionals and experts tent to be synthetics (as self-centered careerists) when there is no real creative human brain to supervise them and the world……….(Page 66…Just consider the prophetic accuracy of this 1990 foreboding coming to vindicate the ongoing degeneration of the US agencies and institutions, leading to their failure to stop the September11, 2001 terror strike in New York, as the latest visible example. It is all the story of the result of DEGENERATION of professionalism of US various security agencies as well as that of the present global leadership themselves.)..

………."All indications are that we have reached that stage: cults of specializations seem to be backfiring from all directions..(Page-67)

…."After having been let off from the long muddle and predicament, the post-cold war world was all agog when suddenly, as a bolt from the blue, Saddam Hussain struck; it now looks miserably crestfallen. For, today, the most expertised and sophisticated world, with all means and armed to the teeth to face and contain a million Saddam Hussains, has suddenly come to realize to its great horror that it is very chicken-hearted when suddenly a single Saddam decides to take on it head on. ; that the world many experts helped to build, seems to be all a house of cards; that every Saddam Hussain, as the big bull in the expertise-pitch forked world china shops, seems to be capable of instantly throwing the world totally out of gear………….……….

"By handing over this lively, wonderful world to professionals and experts, we have literally burned our bridges: we can neither go forward nor backward. All our hitherto attempt to fight this menace have only helped to aggravate it further, for the fight itself is being taken up again by the experts and professionals only. We are left with no other options as they have come to outgrow all our systems, and finally, ourselves……….


……"Market bought power to command a world it simply cannot control now; it bought wise men and wisdom in the wholesale that it simply cannot understand now; market aroused titillations and hope it just cannot fulfill today. Wise men have all gone with the environment turning hostile to them; what are left today are all their know-how, professionals, experts and scores of `intelligent machines that the market produced with the help of those late wise men……

"But now, with most of the onlookers, common man and audience all getting dumfounded, and the time running out, it is only these super performers who, it seems, can afford some respite and hence my attempt to invite their attention. I have my eyes on the smart alecks and skeptics here, the mandarins of the world, the peoplebehind the bestsellers, or simply the members of the world governing board." ( Page 11)

"Today the burning questions are : How long can we continue sweeping things under the carpet? How long can we continue basking under illusion and Vanity fairs? How long can we go on depending on these telltale accounts? How long we can continue making virtues of necessities? How long can a large part of the globe be kept on `doles'? And how long can the right thinking world continue turning a Nelson's eye to realities?"…………

" Yes, this is a `REVOLUTION'—a revolution not forced by man, but forced on man; not accomplished by man, but his long non- accomplishment having come recoiling on him……….Only one part of the Revolution is now over—namely, the `left' part, the Eastern part of the `developed'…(hinting what is now going on is the Western part of the Revolution lashing the `developed'…page122)

John
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