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Why
should we consolidate?
Civilization
in Crisis
by
Satheesan N. Kochicheril
Spirituality
is the expression of love, which will degrade if we do
not feel it for life. This love is inherently part of
Nature. Man cannot be an exception to it. It is
the intellectual and emotional expression of the
creative force in the Universe. All things are
based on the equations of balancing. Even violent
climatic systems are part of this balancing. The
entire Universe works on the basis of mathematical
principles. Balancing in life cannot be attained
without love. This is what the traders deny to their
own people and the rest of the world. The question is
very simple. Can other communities survive like the
American community without love? Sorry. There is no
community here. It disappeared under the pressure of
commercialism. All these degradations are taking place
due to the falsification of spirituality. The prophets
were trying to make life responsible. Responsibility
is very much related to reality that transcends the
social realities. To the Bible reading President Bush
the teachings of the Bible do not exist. He is now
supporting the revival of faith in the Bible under a
federal program. This is where religion degrades. This
is true of all religions. If Islam can be taken to the
expression of the Truth that Mohammed was trying to,
if Christianity can be taken to the Truth from which
Christ spoke, major problems in the universe can be
got rid of.
The
commercial civilization is slitting the source of life. All
forms of life get degraded under the influence of this
unnatural attempt to harvest money by taxing life. The
promoters of money show no sensibility to anything because
their sensibilities are controlled by a lifeless object -
money.
Human
beings are inextricably part of Nature, and our
consciousness must be aligned to the pulse of life in
Nature. If not, the mind loses its capacity for the
essential emotion of love - love that is essential for the
survival of human societies. The degradation of the mind is
very much palpable under the system of capitalism that
promotes only the welfare of money. Capitalism has become a
mania where human greed has been glorified. Capitalism is
scorching the whole world in the attempt to promote money,
and it has taken first place in the ruthless consumption of
resources that belongs to the system of Nature - the system
of God. Due to the corruption of money, all governments are
welcoming this monster civilization. All forms of life and
the system of life are under great threat under the invasion
of capitalism because traders bully others to change even
nations' laws. Those who oppose it, the people who stand for
life, are branded as anti-social elements because media are
under their control. In the monster civilization no
dissenting voice gets expression. It has even controlled the
minds by giving 'Ritalin', a mind-altering drug, to all
children. It is given profusely to them under the programme
to control Attention Deficiency Syndrome. This civilization
marks the end of culture. The people who stand for the
continuity of life must unite together under one effort to
fight against this monster that eats away its own
subsistence.
Let's
us join under the system of God to fight against this
civilization that makes everyone irresponsible to the system
of life. Without love for others, no human society can
survive long.
Let's
try to unify all those who have been touched by eternal
Love.
Human
mind and body are the creations of the system of Nature, the
system of God. The best expression of the mind and the body
are possible only when they get nourishment from Nature.
But, as human civilizations progress, societies develop many
systems that tamper with the system of God, and human beings
by virtue of their inalienable relationship with Nature
cannot escape from the degradation that they bring to it.
The best is always from Nature, and getting this knowledge
is Enlightenment, and retaining this knowledge in all our
activities through its application is the Wisdom that human
societies tend to override due to the influence of many
ignorant and parochial expressions.
Anything
that goes into the body is its food just as what ever goes
into the mind is mind's food. The saying of Hypocrites, the
father of modern medicine, that "Food must be medicine, and
medicine food" refers to 'the Truth' that controls not only
human body, but also the entire realm of beings. This Truth
is getting violated under the influence of
commercialization. When parochial establishments tamper with
the system of Nature for controlling the production and
distribution of seeds for crops, it brings calamity along
with the profits that they appropriate. When seeds are
manufactured to perish with one crop, it slashes the system
of life to death. Nature cannot breed in the laboratories of
the seed companies that hold the civilizations to ransom.
After having successfully controlled the supple governments
to enact laws to protect their system rather than that of
God, these seed companies are now venturing into the area of
human seeds too.
The
most gruesome is the attempt to make some decoction out of
unborn babies for the supposed promise of curing some
diseases. The beginning of life is when life is formed, and
the end of it is when life is over. The birth of the baby
just marks the beginning of its independent existence, not
the beginning of life. Cannibalism was a habit that all
civilized societies denounced. When an unborn baby of a few
days old is killed for the preparation of medicine for human
beings, it cannot be called anything other than cannibalism
though these executioners of humanity prefer to call it stem
cell research. All these atrocities take place step by step,
a procedure that moves from on step to the next level under
the influence of an object that is alien to the expression
of culture - money. This modern cannibalism began with the
feeding of innocent cattle with the dried remains of
slaughtered cattle, which resulted in the retaliation by
Nature in the form of mad cow disease because its violation
of 'the Truth' that controls the living habits of these
animals. When conscience gets mad under the influence of
money making, no sense will enter the stark minds of these
criminals.
There
is another form of disease that is affecting the humans and
the cattle due to the unethical injection of hormones for
more meat and milk production. A 1997 Harper Magazine
article says: "The factory farm today is a crowded, stinking
bedlam, filled with suffering animals that are quite
literally insane, sprayed with pesticides and fattened on a
diet of growth stimulants, antibiotics, and drugs. Two
hundred and fifty thousand laying hens are confined within a
single building. (The high mortality rate caused by
overcrowding is economically acceptable; nothing is more
worthless than an individual chicken.) Pigs are raised in
bare concrete cages in windowless, metal buildings or
tightly restrained in foul pens and gestation boxes. Cows
are kept pregnant to produce an abnormal amount of milk,
which is further artificially increased with hormone
injections. Cattle do eat cattle here. They are fed the
ground offal of those that have succumbed to unknown causes,
and this has been the practice for many years." "...the
growth hormones used in livestock cause estrogenic effects,
including reduction in male human fertility, that are
approximately 10,000 times higher than some pesticides that
have long been recognized to be extremely dangerous to
humans because of their estrogenic effects."
(source
www.citizen.org)
When
animals are given hormones for more meat and milk
production, human beings cannot escape from its effect. The
ecosystem of the human body gets destabilized under the
influence of alien hormones, and meat eaters start the
production of more meat in their body that hangs out from
every part. 'The Koran' says: 2:172 "Believers, eat of the
wholesome things with which We have provided you, and give
thanks to God." The best food and the best medicine come
directly from Nature. But commercial concerns are not
interested in promoting them directly because there is no
involvement of technology to add profits.
The
basis of morality is the adherence to the reality, 'the
Truth' that controls every being and thing in this Universe.
Prophets down from Moses tried to upgrade the consciousness
of societies, and the sensibility that they showed was
gained from 'the Truth' that controls everything. Spinoza,
Baruch, (1632-77, Dutch philosopher) said: "God is the
immanent, and not the extraneous, cause of all things. I
say, all is in God; all lives and moves in God." We find the
love and concern for life in the edicts of 'The Ten
Commandments', and in several places elsewhere in the Bible.
It even speaks of natural farming. " Six years thou shalt
sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard,
and gather in the fruit thereof; But in the seventh year
shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the
LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy
vineyard." The Upanishads of India express the upgradation
of consciousness, a concern that was of education before the
introduction of the monetary system. Now it is no longer the
concern of even the best universities anywhere. 'The
Brahdaranyaka Upanishad' speaks of the love that should be
cultivated for the pulse of life in beings.
"Love,
verily, not for the love of all is all dear,
But for the love of the Soul all is dear."
It
also speaks of the human condition when extraneous objects
tamper with this love.
"The
worlds have deserted him who knows
the worlds in aught else than the Soul,
Beings have deserted him who knows beings
in aught else than the Soul,
Everything has deserted him who knows
Everything in aught else than the Soul." (2.4.6)
Human
mind attained its present capabilities from its interactions
with the objects in Nature. All beings, humans not an
exception, develop love only if the mind is attached to the
living beings- the objects of culture. Human beings in the
march of their civilizations get attached to many objects
which they form as part of their civilization- the objects
of civilization. Whatever may be the concept that guides the
production of these objects of civilization, the effects
that they have on the mind cannot be compared to the effect
that the objects of culture have on the human mind. Love is
only possible when the mind interacts with living beings.
When the human mind is alienated from the objects of culture
under the influence of the products of civilization, the
result is the loss of love- the love that is essential for
the survival of human societies. The objects that rob the
mind of love can be anything, even objects of art. This is
just because all that we make lack life that is essential
for love.
'My
Last Duchess' by Robert Browning, the English poet
(1812-89), gives the story of a Duke, an aesthete, who
reduced his wife to a painting on the wall because her
appreciation for the objects of Nature did not agree with
that of his for the creations of artists. So he gave orders,
and then all her smiles stopped. He proudly points to the
painting of his wife on the wall and tells the messenger who
has come with the proposal of a marriage.
"That's
my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder."
This
speaks of the degradation that the mind is capable of when
it is attached to an ideology, or a lifeless object. Of all
the objects that we make, the one that degrades most is
money. Its promotion degrades not only consciousness; it
degrades every system that is necessary for the survival of
life on this planet. Because of its purchasing power, it can
unrobe even the monarchy, and can send rulers to jail even.
Not many of the modern rulers have escaped from its evil
power. The ideology that promotes the welfare of this object
of civilization is the worst ideology that the world has
ever witnessed. It destroys all that human civilizations
cherish- love, life, family, Nature, everything in this
visible world and beyond marking the end of culture. This
happens because everything that supports life is sent to the
money mill- birth, sex, life, Nature. The net result of this
social milieu is the disappearance of love and social
consciousness. Under the impact of this mindless system
everything gets corrupted- mind, laws, judgment, knowledge,
food, medicine, psychology. Knowledge even gets manipulated
for the promotion of money. Knowledge inherently relates to
the knowledge of the reality, the Truth. When knowledge
shifts to the knowledge of the things that we make guided by
the pursuits that support the welfare of money, the
resultant milieu confuses everyone. This happens due to the
controlling of all channels of knowledge by the people who
have become the tools of money.
The
governments, which should protect the system of God by
virtue of them being the custodians of the respective
nations, too tend to violate the Natural Law, 'the Truth',
under the influence of the moneylenders and traders.
Promotion of money violates this moral code. When a nation
gets under the control of the traders, it gets shaped for
the maximum consumption of traded objects. When moneymakers
make sex an object of trade, its name is prostitution. 'The
Bible' says: "Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her
to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land
become full of wickedness." When traders become rulers, all
such rules are not applicable because they have sold their
souls to the devil. This sanctifying of prostitution mars
the structure of the basic unit of human society- the
family. When family disappears, love for fellow human beings
too vanish. This really means the end of culture. All
systems that should serve the needs of fellow beings suffer
when nations' laws get rewritten under the threat from the
moneylenders. Traders and moneylenders will not deliver
goods if not profitable. When the capitalist cannot deliver
goods to its poor fellow human beings, there is no question
of it serving other societies.
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A
Capitalist's Argument for Poverty
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Tax
Rebate for the Rich with nothing for the
Poor
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"As
humans, it is natural to feel empathy toward those
in poverty.... Poverty is not an externality and
thus government intervention is both unwarranted
and detrimental.... Would it really harm them
(businesses) to raise prices and wages? This
(inceasing wages) would have no real effect on the
poor and would erode the purchasing power of the
rich."
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source a letter in 'The Daily Progress'
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"...thanks
to the strenuous efforts of President Bush, $38
billion will leave the federal coffers... None of
the beneficiaries of the Bush rebate will be poor
families.... Twelve million children in the United
States live in poverty - the highest poverty rate
among children in the industrialized world.... The
best way to improve consumer spending is to give
give money to people who will spend it."
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Karen Kornbluh
Felicia Kornbluh
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"When
you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your
field to its very border, neither shall you gather the
gleanings after the harvest. And you shall not strip your
vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of
your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and for the
sojourner."
-The
Bible
The
traders cannot afford any expression of culture and freedom
because the exertion of individuality can harm their
ideology. So, they came up with a solution, give Ritalin
(methylphenidate)
to every child that is energetic and restless. Ritalin is
classified as a schedule II, or most addictive drug, on par
with cocaine, morphine, PCP and metamphetamines. According
to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), this nation
buys and uses 90% of the world's supply of Ritalin. When
young minds are subject to this drug, they no longer protest
against anything. Now, morality is no problem even in the
best institutions. When students in different parts of the
world protest against the establishments, the capitalist has
nothing to worry. Sex is a major industry, and the young
children who are pliable are the victims of it. The main
victims are the girls who are exploited for sex. This has
led to the break up of families. Nobody has faith in
marriage. 'Marriage Under Fire' is a popular TV show. There
are no husbands and wives- there are only boyfriends and
girl friends. Who will be the first to jump out of the house
is the only anxiety. Marriage has become 'a big meat
industry'. The use of estrogen for milk production has
affected the male fertility, and this is a boon to the
promoters of cyber sex that has become a billion dollar
industry. When everything is controlled by the capitalists,
people even do not have any freedom.
Nature
exists not on the basis of globalization. There are regional
variations of Nature, and people living as part of it find
their existence threatened when the traders interfere with
the local habitations. The traders used to bring what was
not available in respective regions. Now with globalization,
many feel life threatened. A Chinese farmer exclaimed when
he could no longer cultivate corn due to the import of it
from America. "Let the Government open a brothel on my
land." When systems are flexed to bring more money to the
greedy who demand more than their share of existence, it
breeds disease marking the end of life. If the world relies
on traders for its support, the result would be calamity for
everything that supports life. When the people cannot offer
profit to the traders they will not support the society.
"What disturbs the regular method of Heaven, comes into
collision with the nature of things, prevents the
accomplishment of the mysterious (operation of) Heaven,
scatters the herds of animals, makes the birds sing all
night, is calamitous to vegetation, and disastrous to all
insects;- all this owing, I conceive, to the error of
governing men." ('The Writings of Chuangtze', China)
Every
form of government gets defeated due to the excess of its
basic principle that is alien to the reality that controls
everything in this Universe. Capitalism has begun to hurt
people everywhere. Two major studies about the absence of
culture in public life were published last year in the US.
They did not get publicity like 'Harry Potter' or new
versions of some dolls because they stand for the revival of
culture in American life. 'Meaning - The Secret of Being
Alive' by Cliff Havener firmly states that Purpose, Meaning,
Creativity, Spirit are the things that make us feel alive.
Living without them is a mechanical imitation of life. What
many call "normal" actually separate us from our deepest
authenticity. There are many who challenge the "normal" and
yet they feel like outcasts because of the violent
opposition they encounter from most of the people in their
immediate environment. The other book 'The Cultural
Creatives' by sociologist Paul H. Ray and psychologist
Sherry Anderson draw upon thirteen years of survey research
studies on more than 100,000 Americans, plus more than 100
focus groups and dozens of in-depth interviews. According to
them the Cultural Creatives care deeply about ecology and
saving the planet, about relationships, peace, and social
justice, about self-actualization, spirituality, and
self-expression. Once they realize their numbers, their
impact on America promises to be enormous, shaping a new
agenda for the twenty-first century.
The
question now is very simple. Who should be treated as the
outcastes; the people who stand for culture and values, or
the people who stand for the destruction of this planet for
the welfare of money?
Let
us all consolidate on the
platform
of culture and life.
Not
to do so is death.
see
also: Anti-Globalization-Movement
Executioners
of Humanity,
by Satheesan Kochicheril
Comment
sent to the
guestbook:
Congratulations
to (pure reason) 07/05/2001. You have identified the one
mental/behavioural system that links all of humanity and, it
is not love, or religion or spirit - concepts which only
distinguish! some of us creatures. No, if there is a
difficulty with humanity, it is the fools who believe they
are not a part of it who are furthest from a solution. The
individual is an instance of the epistemic externalization
of the humanic condition in time as much as they are a
product of liberating thoughts. Those who try to separate
themselves from that upon which we 'all' stand, for we are
all inevitably guilty of the birthright of worldliness, that
external reality of economic behaviour that our children
shall learn is ours and their restriction, those who try to
separate from this by indicating a difference in thoughts
about behaviour have also to search out that difficulty of
their own humanity which they cannot change by just their
own disagreement, to find the words for achievable!!change.
Or ultimately perish as the one who gives away all their
worldly possesions, the ability to influence the course and
maintainance of their life. Discover this, and discover what
and why certain changes, which necessarily apply to all, may
give you more significance to humanity. Truly self, truly
individually free. Truly able to identify the potential
aspects of humanity which we are glad to make a part of our
self and do not destroy us, and adequately argue for those
in which we differ. To have these abilities society becomes
our equal, both our teacher/sire and our student/charge.
None have adequately accomplished the explication of that
system which can appeal to rich and poor alike, male and
female, old and young, sacred and profane, and all other
dualism, that make them preferably parallel (a mere option
of time) rather than better or worse. Thus, perceive that it
is how I would like to change myself, rather than how I
differ, that will bring you closer to me in your thoughts.
The scaffolding to knowledge is finally fulfilling it's
purpose and I believe that it is growing time for the single
glimmering instance of a human being to claim to humanity
that they no longer recognize their subservience to this
ancient mental/behavioural system. It is the one fearful of
the self's ability to stand free of the habits of a
superiority system (that which defines the necessary way of
the short-sighted and ultimately environment subservient
animal) who believes that others cannot be trusted to have
an irrevocable influence on society's resources. It is this
person who is afraid that safety and independance is only
achievable through a system of reservation of life exigent
resources, yet claim some other more noble, inobjective
motive. One can only speak of why one's self does not need
to rely on the irresponsible dualism offered by this medium.
It is because unfortunately the love of it is a enforced
necessity or do not 'live', and an enforced necessity is an
evil to the truly free. And I will not sacrifice a bit of
mine, if not ours! Not for love or religion or
spirit!
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Reply
The
human personality is not a product of any civilization.
Since it is the product of the system of Nature, the best
expressions of the body and the mind are possible only if
they are nourished by the objects in Nature. When the human
qualities of the mind are expressed, the society supports
culture, and it becomes civilized. On the other hand, when
the commercial establishments shape the human mind, as in
many commercially active societies, all that culture
cherishes disappears from the human mind. Consequently human
relationship becomes a burden, and family, the basic unit of
the society disappears. The best example is the capitalist
society where the average human mind is a product of the
media and trade. The people there must liberate themselves
from the shackles of the predators of humanity to make life
meaningful. Such a civilization garbages everything, Nature,
and human beings in it. The system produces billionaires and
millionaires, not human beings. Always there is a better way
of life for the human beings to live on this planet. That is
living in friendship with Nature. Love is a product of the
interaction with the beings having the pulse of life. It
disappears if we are attached to the objects we make. All
our pursuits must accommodate this Truth.
Comment:
Pure
reason, you must live in a beautiful and ethereal world from
which you are exempt from petty the tug of war and identity
crisis over resources that keep this world from achieving
such vague, hard to understand proper human behaviour such
as enlightenment, living in friendship with nature, having
the pulse of life. We have yet to identify such a world of
unambiguous morality (unambiguous?) as the one you are so
lucky to live in. Would you please tell us where this place
is so that we all might come to live there. We are indeed
surprised to hear that it exists, could it be in India, for
I know many there would also like the salvation of living in
your world. It must be small to be so unheard of, is it
bigger than your house, or your head. If your world is too
small to accomodate us all would you detail the
politico-economic system by which you and all your friends
survive and interact and pulse so that we might change our
own. My friends and I would very much like to know how such
proper human behaviour must restrict and detail our
practical lives in order that we really become civilised and
not just think we are. We are relying on you as we are so,
so tired of giving precious reserves of time and respect to
heavenly, non-existent realities which cannot be replicated
with visible behaviour and practical solutions with which to
improve the existent capitalist piggery.
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Reply
The
Kingdom of God is inside of you and it is outside of you.
The Kingdom of God is the Universe, and Nature. God is the
promoter of this Kingdom. Since we are products of the
system of Nature, we must intellectually and emotionally
belong to it. At that level we are provided with the
resources necessary for life. Living according to the system
of God/Truth alone is spirituality. Religions that do not
modify human actions according to the Truth are unethical.
Another disaster that affects the rest of the world is the
capture of the world's most powerful nation's government by
the traders. All world institutions are whipped for the
promotion of trade, and this means more strain on the
Kingdom of God. Can the fragile earth withstand the
activities of these greedy ones who are not satisfied with
more than their share? Life is more sacred than the riches
that they reap. When all the avenues to consciousness are
controlled by the traders, unknowingly we lose our human
identity too. Even knowledge becomes expression of un-Truth.
We have to liberate ourselves from these selfish maniacs who
do not show love and pity to the fellow human beings. Always
there is a better way. That is to live in peace with Nature.
This will win back our lost identity.
Methylphenidate
- Ritalin: A positive effect could be seen with restless
and hyperactive children more than 6 years old. On the long
run this medication however is not without risk for the
development of the children's psyche, even delusions are
being induced. Medication also interferes with growth.
Emanzipation
Humanum,
version 12. 2001, Criticism, suggestions as to form and
content, dialogue, translation into other languages are all
desired
http://emanzipationhumanum.de/english/crisis.html
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