tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75307455399180307462024-02-06T18:23:52.999-08:00Ali JavedA hopeless romantic in search of a unified philosophy for a unified humanity. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511962640423666170noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7530745539918030746.post-76540111273844742192016-09-11T06:07:00.000-07:002018-09-08T08:38:59.199-07:00The Leftist machinations to hijack the Dalit-Muslim Alliance<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Yesterday I attended a talk organized by Jamia Collective on its forum Guftgu. The speaker was Subhash Gatade a well-known Left-wing thinker. The topic of discourse was “New Dalit Uprising and Hindutva”. Gatade, in his talk, mentioned various movements that have taken place in the past and have acquired a new life in the present India under the banner of Dalit upliftment. The cases of Una Dalit thrashing, Rohit Vemula and the heated JNU uprising are some of the examples he mentioned. Gatade tried to present his case against Hindutva terrorism against the minorities. Most of his arguments rested on the idea that the BJP government and the RSS ideology backing it have been responsible for the recent spurt of attacks on the minority. He mentioned that the politics of cow, although a weapon that worked in the favour of the Hindutva cause of the Modi government, was proving to be a regressive policy in their “progressive” agenda. He also mentioned that the Dalits, although they had been part of the attacks on the Muslims during the Gujarat riots, have been recently distancing themselves from the right-wing Hindutva politics altogether. Recent attempts to appease the Dalits and other backward Hindu classes by the RSS have proved to be an utter failure. The RSS Kendras that were open in the backward areas to attract the population living there are now found empty. He also mentioned that PM Modi has recently tried to reconcile with the Dalits by speaking against ‘cow vigilantism’ and raising slogans like ‘kill me before you kill any of our Dalit brothers”. Such attempts of reconciliation are completely absent when dealing with the Muslim population. The treatment of the Muslims as “the other” is derived from their “Hindutva philosophy of Savarkar”, he mentioned. He also shed light on the possibility of Dalit-Muslim alliances that can uproot the Hindutva Terrorism and create a more secular nation. In all his arguments, he kept focusing on his efforts trying to prove his allegiance with secularism and anti-Hindutva forces. The similarities between the thoughts and ideas of Marx and Ambedkar were the focus of his entire speech.</div>
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After he ended his speech, the audience present was allowed to interact with the speaker and raise questions. One of the attendees enquired about the possibilities of uniting Dalits and Muslims against the Hindutva forces. To this Mr. Gatade replied that he was not sure whether such an alliance could work in the long run, but the short-term consequences of such an alliance can be strategically beneficial. In response to other questions, he stated the shortcomings of all the religious forces in the South Asia in suppressing the other religious minorities the way Hindutva lobby has been pursuing in India. I was amongst the last people to put forward my questions to him.</div>
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I asked Mr. Gatade that throughout his speech he has mentioned the problems with the Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists and all the other forces besides the forces of the Left. How could then he has missed out the terrors inflicted by the Leftist communist forces throughout the past centuries often leading to genocides and homicides? I reminded him that although today it is the West who has been responsible for destroying the Middle Eastern countries and engineering a consent in which Muslims are the only ones labelled as terrorists; organizations and nations that are Left-leaning have benefited from such manufactured consent the most. I asked him how he could forget the horrors inflicted by Stalin and Zedong on his own people. West has killed others in numerous numbers in their attempt to maintain their hegemony, but the institutions that have sprung out of your own ideology have been responsible for killing your own. Is this not even more despicable than the Hindutva and Western forces you so much loath. I also quoted from one of Dr Javed Jamil’s articles that the undue focus of the Left and Dalits on the Brahmanvaada is an irrelevant question for the present era which is dominated by the economic forces of the class of Baniyas. Out of the 100 richest men in India, more than 80 are baniyas. Would it not be right if your lobby corrects your stance against the so-called Brahmanvaada and concentrate your efforts in fighting off the Baniyavaada, which is most responsible for the economic disparity in today’s India?</div>
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In response to my sharp critique and remarks on his biased ideology, he accepted the shortcomings of the Left in the past and suggested that such shortcomings are responsible for the poor condition of the Left in the World today. But at the same time, he did not fail to defend the actions of Stalin and Zedong by stating that in the case of Russia it was Stalin that fought alongside the West against Hitler and ended the WW2, and China’s progress to be a reflection of the capability of communism to bring about positive change. One of the other attendees present there had raised an important question how could the Left reconcile Marx’s dialectic materialism with the idealism of religion. Such antithetical philosophies have historically proved to be too difficult to reconcile. Gatade failed to even respond to such a philosophical inquiry.</div>
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The reader might think that I am fundamentally opposed to the ideas of the Left thinker, but this is far from the truth. I realize the historical importance of Marx and his philosophy who as Schumpeter in his book has described as the Prophet for the deprived classes. No intellectual pursuit of removing the problems in the world can ignore the critical analysis of Capitalism by Marx in a day and age where capitalism was at its zenith. But unfortunately, Marx could not prove to be an intellectual force capable of providing a solution for the ills and diseases of the world. His is no doubt one of the best diagnoses that cannot be ignored but not a cure for the disease. Marx’s incapability to develop an outlook that needed to have a place for Hegelian “idealism” proves the case that his hypothesis cannot be termed as the ultimate theory.</div>
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As regards to Gatade’s assertion that in the long run, the alliance of the Left and Muslims may not prove to be fulfilling its role is a fairly correct analysis, but not the way he perceives it. Muslims and Dalits are naïve that in their desperation to fight against the lesser evils they are more than ready to invite a greater evil in their homes. Religion to Marx was opium that forces the people to undertake actions that no rational man would otherwise. But effectively, Marxism has proved to be opium for the deprived. Left is fundamentally opposed to the idea of religion as a driving force of the society. They seem to compromise with the idea for the meantime as they are not in the position to be choosers, but as soon as the time would come where they will be able to do away with the religion they will not think twice. China, Russia, and North Korea are living examples where religious groups have been marginalized, oppressed and subjugated in the name of communism. The terrorist activities of the Leftists have been but ignored by the mainstream media in their effort to demean the Muslims throughout the world. The oppression of humans by Russia, China, North Korea is highlighted only to the extent that the West dislike communism, but Muslims and Islam are projected as someone and some ideology that requires nothing less than hatred and contempt.</div>
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I most certainly realize the problems with Hindutva and how its advance should be halted if the fabric of the society is to protected from degrading into a form which will not be likable by the minorities. But I also know that in order to fight off a lesser evil we cannot be allies with a greater evil that may even become the cause of our own destruction as a religious community in the near or distant future. Second, we should try to understand the difference between Hindutva and the Sanaatana Dharma and try to convince our Hindu brothers to be a better judge between the two. As all the other religions Sanaatana Dharma does not promote violence. It is the political misuse of the religion that yields such problematic ideologies. Although the ideology of Hindutva and its supporting organizations has not become as forceful as the ideology of ISIS, directly and indirectly supported by the Western forces, in the future it will prove to be more difficult to combat than combatting the ISIS at the present. This is because that majority (almost all) of the Muslim population does not recognize radical Islam to be acceptable to the Qur’an, a lot of Hindus have started feeling that Hindutva is the correct understanding of Hinduism where more than protecting their own, destroying the other is more commendable. Third, we should understand that capitalism and communism are two faces of the same coin that have been responsible for mass murders in the recent past and continue to inflict such terrors in the present.</div>
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If society is to be protected, religious morality, prescribed in the various scriptures, needs to be promoted and its later political forms have to be completely revised in the light of the rejuvenated morality. Dalits should realize that if they become an ally with Muslims they will not only become a decisive force in the Indian politics but will also enjoy the association with the religion that was responsible for ending the culture of slavery and oppression 1300 years before the West. Islam in this sense is the pioneer of classless society.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511962640423666170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7530745539918030746.post-69929967803205215372016-02-25T10:56:00.003-08:002016-02-25T10:56:51.781-08:00The Universal Theory of Climatic Change<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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After observing the
temperature changes in the recent past as compared to seasons in my childhood I
developed an interesting hypothesis that led me into believing that the climatic
change in the world may be a universal phenomenon resulting from the
change in axis of a heavenly body or its land mass. I developed this hypothesis
a year ago and discussed it with a couple of my friends starting with Manas
Bhaskar but very soon resumed my efforts in other thought experiments I was conducting at
the time. Recently in view of the more drastic changes in Delhi's climate I
have been forced to contemplate on the hypothesis to analyze what kind of
implications it will entail. In assuming so the following implications may come
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to the shift in the Earth's axis the polar regions maybe moving away from the
axial focus resulting in the change in the heat received from the sun. If
assuming that the region around the northern axis are moving towards the
southern axis and the regions around the southern axis are moving up towards
the Northern axis in a cyclical rotation, it can be contemplated how this
change in the axis of the earth will affect the climate of the planet. North
Pole regions due to their movement towards the south of the axis due to the
shift would start to receive more sunlight and hence would start to melt the
polar ice caps. Similar conditions would prevail in around the South Pole where
due to the northern movement of the regions around the south pole, these
regions would start receiving more sunlight and therefore melting the polar
icecaps in the south as well. Now due to the axial shift similar type of
movement will be seen in other parts of the world. India will become more
equatorial and start receiving more heat and thus the climate in India will
become much warmer. Throughout this winter we have experience this kind of
effect. There have been short and less cold winters in this and previous years.</div>
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Even if land mass
reorganization due to the movement in Earth's tectonic is considered, a similar
hypothesis can be developed where the reach of the Sun's heat changes in
intensity in the affected regions and thus causing a fair change in the
climatic conditions of the planet. But if ever such a hypothesis is considered,
the industrialists would start questioning the very effort that the
environmentalists have made in the past few decades in strengthening their
argument for Global Warming. They would argue that the green house gases
emission is not the reason for the melting of the polar ice cap and thus the
rise in the ocean's water level. To that I would say that Global Warming would
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regions of land that will replace the polar region in the future and are
already replacing in the present are the regions of human habitation where the
emission of green house gasses is considerably high. Hence the regions that
will be and are replacing the polar regions will experience the green house
effect and thus making it difficult for the polar regions to be replaced with
the equally polar regions. These new regions will be warmer and thus although
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This kind of theory
would also fit on how ten thousand year ago there was ice age on the land mass.
This maybe because at that time the Earth's axis was centered around the main
land mass and thus freezing it. Also this will also help in predicting the future
weather conditions through a larger scale of time, and even on other heavenly
bodies. Although I realize that such a hypothesis may be empirically absurd but
it most certainly defines a distinct and alternate perspective in which the
problem of climatic change may be observed, analyzed and evaluated. Also I have
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511962640423666170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7530745539918030746.post-11748586166282400632015-11-26T05:00:00.004-08:002018-09-08T08:09:40.831-07:00LIMITS AND LIMITERS TO KNOWLEDGE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #a00027; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.063px;">The man is bound by the limits of nature itself. To know the universe from outside, man will have to be outside the universe. But nothing natural or physical can exist outside the universe. Hence the knowledge of the universe from without is not possible. Also to know the internal workings of the universe or its part, man’s frame of reference should be less than or within the system of his observation. But to observe the internal workings of the smallest indivisible substance, man’s frame of reference will have to be smaller than the smallest substance possible, which in itself is a contradiction. Hence man can neither know the true world from within and neither the true world from without. This means that man can only know all the possibilities within the two ultimate ways of perceiving the truth but not the truth itself. Yet we deceive ourselves in believing that we are only a little away from the transcendental reality which appears to be distant no matter how close we get to it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a00027;"><span style="font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.063px;">But there may be a different way of thinking about this demarcation. Man can know the whole Universe from within and the smallest particle from without. So by changing the approach we find that by being equal to or greater than the smallest particle possible we can observe its outer workings. Also by being equal to or lesser than the universe, that is, the biggest natural existence, we can understand it from within.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #a00027;"><span style="font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.063px;">But to know a substance completely we need to know that substance from within as well as without, which seems not to be possible when we reach the lower infinity and the upper infinity. Hence man will always be trapped between these infinities. He may know everything, from within and without, between these infinities but will always be left one step behind in understanding of the true reality.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #a00027;"><span style="font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.063px;">It is like integration and differentiation. In calculus, we always tend to reach 0 or 1 but we never do reach them. The real answers are always like 0.00000000000000000001 or 0.999999999999999. This leads me into believing that the fundamentality of my understanding to the limits of knowledge has put limits to mathematics itself. Mathematics then cannot justify itself to be an absolute and independent source of knowledge. It then becomes only a highly advanced way of almost reaching the fundamental truths without ever reaching them. How scary and insane is that? It is these times that lead me into believing, it is only human belief and conviction in something higher than his understanding of the universe that can truly save him from pure skepticism.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There should be an effort by the governmental agencies to first find out the exact distribution of wealth based on the comparison between nation to nation, state to state, nation to state, region to region, city to city, city to state, community to community and on any other relevant ground in order to draw a complete and true picture of the division of wealth. After this efforts should be made to design policies in such a way that money flows more toward the areas where it is most needed by the poor. Also there should be reconsideration on how profit should be shared amongst different levels of production. It has been found that all the production processes below the level of the company’s final selling of the product into the market is taken care of by a small fraction of the MRP. This means that the trickling effect that is said to occur in a capitalist society occurs for that fraction of that MRP. The major chunk of the profit goes to the owners of the corporation and the top most managerial employees. This process has been fundamentally responsible for the ever increasing difference in the distribution of wealth. A recent report by the BBC Corporation states that under a research it was found that the richest 1% of the individuals own more wealth than the other 99%. These figures serve my argument for the failure of the economic system of the New World Order which has systematically and lawfully seized more and more wealth from the poor. Here the word ‘lawfully’ is used in order to show that even the present world order’s laws are made by the influence of these top most corporatocrats. They have made the Judicial System itself a cripple who cannot serve justice right They have made their oppression legal through their influence over the governments. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What mainstream economists are always trying to prove is that capitalism is the best possible option we have. Although it has its own problems, but it is still better than the other options that are available. One such recent attempt has been by Paul Mason who in his latest book ‘Post-capitalism’ has tried to show that the era of resource sharing is inevitable now. He tries to show this by giving the example of the spread of information technology in past decade. He writes that a huge amount of content available on the net is free. He gives the example of Wiki Media project along with social networking platforms that are giving their services free of cost. He says that these services are only going to increase in the near future and people will be able to share more relevant information freely. This concept will then flow from the virtual world of the internet to the physical world where the material sources will shared according to the need of the people. What Mason is trying to do here is to save Capitalism by reconciling it with Socialism. He is trying to give a positive picture of the path present day capitalistic societies are on. But this writer believes that this is the advent of a new era of absolute capitalism where rather than the use of traditional methods of marketing, more sublime and sophisticated use of targeted consumerism has been developed. What we see today on the home screens of our Facebook profile are the advertisements of the products that are best sold to the individuals of our exact profiles. We would see ads of so many sunglasses every day that we end buying one of them on some online store, even if we already have sunglasses to use. We are now using multiple smartphones, tablets and laptops when the real need would have been fulfilled by smartphone and a laptop. They are created demands and then targeted towards a category of consumers that have the highest probability to consume it. These free social networking platforms serve as a sophisticated database of centralized information on a plethora of individuals. This information is then used by these websites themselves and also sold to other private enterprises that have use for them. I mean is it the end of capitalism as Mason put it in one of his articles or a beginning of a highly evolved form of it. Paul Mason in his article ‘the end of capitalism has begun’ writes</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5b9bd5; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The roofs are flat. Every tenth year people change houses—apparently to prevent any feeling of ownership. In the country, there are farms, each containing not fewer than forty persons, including two bondmen; each farm is under the rule of a master and mistress, who are old and wise. The chickens are not hatched by hens, but in incubators (which did not exist in More's time). All are dressed alike, except that there is a difference between the dress of men and women, and of married and unmarried. The fashions never change, and no difference is made between summer and winter clothing. At work, leather or skins are worn; a suit will last seven years. When they stop work, they throw a woolen cloak over their working clothes. All these cloaks are alike, and are the natural color of wool. “Each family makes its own clothes. Everybody—men and women alike—works six hours a day, three before dinner and three after. All go to bed at eight, and sleep eight hours. In the early morning there are lectures, to which multitudes go, although they are not compulsory. After supper an hour is devoted to play. Six hours' work is enough, because there are no idlers and there is no useless work; with us, it is said, women, priests, rich people, servants, and beggars, mostly do nothing useful, and owing to the existence of the rich much labor is spent in producing unnecessary luxuries; all this is avoided in Utopia. Sometimes it is found that there is a surplus, and the magistrates proclaim a shorter working day for a time.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">College students and young employees display their new found
pride in supporting homosexuality and pornography as if they are natural part
of human behaviour. With the banning of porn sites in India, Social networks were
full with articles and personal opinions until the government changed its
stance and made the porn sites live again, keeping only the websites hosting
child pornography shutdown. Most of my colleagues in my college were
celebrating the restart of these websites as if our country suddenly turned
into true democracy, where only people’s opinions matter. My friends and
all the other people who celebrated this move by government were silly to
believe that the government took the step for them. The only reason for the
change in the government’s decision was because the corporate lobby it so much
relied on to come to power was unhappy with this move. And why wouldn’t they be
unhappy when it is the indirect and direct source of a big part of their
earnings. Richard Alleyne in his article “</span><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Pornography is just 'advertising' for prostitution, claims
Louis Theroux</span><span style="font-size: large;">” for the Telegraph on 6th June 2012 wrote</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">“Pornographic films
have become adverts for the real business of many of their performers which is
prostitution, claims the documentary maker Louis Theroux.”</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In an article on Business Pundit called “The World’s Most
Lucrative Business Markets”, the top estimated markets for businesses are
mentioned with rank as follows;</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large; text-indent: -0.25in;">Drugs</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large; text-indent: -0.25in;">Defence</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large; text-indent: -0.25in;">Prostitution</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large; text-indent: -0.25in;">Oil</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large; text-indent: -0.25in;">Counterfeits</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large; text-indent: -0.25in;">Sports</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large; text-indent: -0.25in;">Gambling</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large; text-indent: -0.25in;">Banking</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large; text-indent: -0.25in;">Alcohol</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large; text-indent: -0.25in;">Pornography</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large; text-indent: -0.25in;">Pharmaceuticals</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large; text-indent: -0.25in;">Entertainment and</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large; text-indent: -0.25in;">Human Trafficking </span><span style="font-size: large; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That means that the world’s biggest businesses are also the
biggest source of all human problems. Pornography that lies at 10 supports its
mother business ‘Prostitution’ which lies at no. 3.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The above discussion was related to economic aspect of
pornography which is an industry that was estimated to be $10 billion in 2001.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next I would like to talk about the social impacts of watching
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<span style="font-size: large;">Puberty hits males and females from around 11yrs of age to
14yrs. This is the time when there is start of the transition of a boy to a man
and that of a girl to a woman. There is so much radical change in the biology of
both males and females that they become conscious of their appearance. The build
of the body suddenly changes, there is a change in voice, and hair on face and
other parts of the body starts to grow. With all this there is also a radical
change in the behavior of these young individuals. They try to seek knowledge
of what is happening to them and understand it so that they become comfortable with
it. Today from a very early age the children in urban cities are well
acquainted with the use of internet. When puberty strikes they find it easier
to search for their issues on Google rather than feeling embarrassed around
parents and friends. This is also the time that they are most vulnerable to the
flood of pornography that is waiting for them on the internet. The information
regarding their issues that must have been revealed to these young people in a
span of time from puberty to their late teens appears in front of them in a
single video. Initially these youngsters are extremely embarrassed after
watching the porn, but in due course of time they acquire the strength to
discuss about this with their friends. In no time the embarrassment turns into
the pride of becoming an adult earlier than other students. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is also the time when distinction between a male and a
female is understood by these young children. They start to engage with
opposite sexes in what we call relationships. The irony that lies deep within
this is that although marriage is not allowed at this age by constitution, there
is no provision against pornography which can lead to everything that is done
after the marriage. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Supporters and promoters of homosexuality and pornography
raise similar kinds of arguments. One of the most used arguments is that these exercises
are natural to the human behavior. They are part of the human psychology and
cannot be treated to be fundamentally against nature. They argue that it is
retrograding to think otherwise. The recent support from the media to them has
successfully been able to make this argument an intellectual worldview. To the
general public, anything spoken against these practices is labelled as
unscientific.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To completely destroy the validity of this argument I am
going to use neuro-scientific insights into the human brain. I have frequently
mentioned in my previous writings that it is very easy to manipulate human consciousness
through elaborate schemes that penetrates the human psyche. In the realm of neuroscience
this phenomenon of the brain being able to be rewired is known as plasticity. According
to Wikipedia, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">“Neuroplasticity</span></i></b><i><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">, also known as<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>brain plasticity</b>,
is an<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><i><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">umbrella term<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #252525;"> </span></span><span style="color: #252525;">that encompasses both<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>synaptic
plasticity<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #252525;"> </span></span><span style="color: #252525;">and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>non-synaptic
plasticity<span style="color: #252525;">—it refers to changes in neural pathways
and synapses due to changes in behavior, environment, neural processes,
thinking, and emotions – as well as to changes resulting from bodily injury.</span></i><i><sup id="cite_ref-Pascual-Leone_et_al._2011_1-0"><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></sup></i><i><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">The concept of neuroplasticity has replaced the
formerly-held position that the brain is a physiologically static organ, and
explores how – and in which ways – the brain changes in the course of a
lifetime.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></blockquote>
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held view of the localizationists that the human brain is hardwired to perform
certain functions is obsolete and recent researches have proved that the
neuronal network within the brain and its processes can be significantly
altered. I am going to reproduce some excerpts from one of the greatest books on
neouroscientific discoveries by Norman Doidge. The book is called ‘The Brain
That Changes Itself”. The excerpt I am reproducing has direct relevance to
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">“The current porn epidemic gives a graphic
demonstration that sexual tastes can be acquired. Pornography, delivered by
high-speed Internet connections, satisfies every one of the prerequisites for
neuroplastic change. Pornography seems, at first glance, to be a purely
instinctual matter: sexually explicit pictures trigger instinctual responses,
which are the product of millions of years of evolution. But if that were true,
pornography would be unchanging. The same triggers, bodily parts and their
proportions, that appealed to our ancestors would excite us. This is what
pornographers would have us believe, for they claim they are battling sexual
repression, taboo, and fear and that their goal is to liberate the natural,
pent-up sexual instincts.</span>”</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">“The addictiveness of Internet pornography is
not a metaphor. Not all addictions are to drugs or alcohol. People can be
seriously addicted to gambling, even to running. All addicts show a loss of
control of the activity, compulsively seek it out despite negative consequences,
develop tolerance so that they need higher and higher levels of stimulation for
satisfaction, and experience withdrawal if they can’t consummate the addictive
act. All addiction involves long-term, sometimes lifelong, neuroplastic change
in the brain. For addicts, moderation is impossible, and they must avoid the
substance or activity completely if they are to avoid addictive behaviors.
Alcoholics Anonymous insists that there are no “former alcoholics” and makes
people who haven’t had a drink for decades introduce themselves at a meeting by
saying, “My name is John, and I am an alcoholic.” In terms of plasticity, they
are often correct.</span>”</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">But this phenomenon is not
all too new to the human understanding of sexual preferences. The sexual
instincts,” wrote Freud, “are noticeable to us for their plasticity, their
capacity for altering their aims.” Freud was not the first to argue that
sexuality was plastic—Plato, in his dialogue on love, argued that human Eros
took many forms—but Freud laid the foundations for a neuroscientific
understanding of sexual and romantic plasticity.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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about the sexual plasticity,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">“But in fact the content of pornography is a
dynamic phenomenon that perfectly illustrates the progress of an acquired
taste. Thirty years ago “hardcore” pornography usually meant the explicit
depiction of sexual intercourse between two aroused partners, displaying their genitals.
“Softcore” meant pictures of women, mostly, on a bed, at their toilette, or in
some semiromantic setting, in various states of undress, breasts revealed.</span></span></i><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Now hardcore has evolved and is increasingly
dominated by the sadomasochistic themes of forced sex, ejaculations on women’s
faces, and angry anal sex, all involving scripts fusing sex with hatred and
humiliation. Hardcore pornography now explores the world of perversion, while
softcore is now what hardcore was a few decades ago, explicit sexual intercourse
between adults, now available on cable TV. The comparatively tame softcore
pictures of yesteryear—women in various states of undress—now show up on
mainstream media all day long, in the pornification of everything, including
television, rock videos, soap operas, advertisements, and so on.</span></span></i><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Pornography’s growth has been extraordinary; it
accounts for 25 percent of video rentals and is the fourth most common reason
people give for going online. An<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://msnbc.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">MSNBC.com</span></a></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i></span><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">survey of
viewers in 2001 found that 80 percent felt they were spending so much time on
pornographic sites that they were putting their relationships or jobs at risk.
Softcore pornography’s influence is now most profound because, now that it is
no longer hidden, it influences young people with little sexual experience and
especially plastic minds, in the process of forming their sexual tastes and
desires. Yet the plastic influence of pornography on adults can also be
profound, and those who use it have no sense of the extent to which their
brains are reshaped by it.</span></i></span><i style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></span></i></span></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">During the mid-to late 1990s, when the Internet
was growing rapidly and pornography was exploding on it, I treated or assessed
a number of men who all had essentially the same story. Each had acquired a
taste for a kind of pornography that, to a greater or lesser degree, troubled
or even disgusted him, had a disturbing effect on the pattern of his sexual
excitement, and ultimately affected his relationships and sexual potency.</span></span></i><i><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="line-height: 27.6000003814697px;"></span></span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="line-height: 27.6000003814697px;">Typically</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">, while I was treating one of these
men for some other problem, he would report, almost as an aside and with
telling discomfort, that he found himself spending more and more time on the
Internet, looking at pornography and masturbating. He might try to ease his
discomfort by asserting that everybody did it. In some cases he would begin by
looking at a Playboy-type site or at a nude picture or video clip that someone
had sent him as a lark. In other cases he would visit a harmless site, with a
suggestive ad that redirected him to risqué sites, and soon he would be hooked.</span></span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">A number of these men also reported something
else, often in passing, that caught my attention. They reported increasing
difficulty in being turned on by their actual sexual partners, spouses or girlfriends,
though they still considered them objectively attractive. When I asked if this
phenomenon had any relationship to viewing pornography, they answered that it
initially helped them get more excited during sex but over time had the
opposite effect. Now, instead of using their senses to enjoy being in bed, in
the present, with their partners, lovemaking increasingly required them to
fantasize that they were part of a porn script. Some gently tried to persuade
their lovers to act like porn stars, and they were increasingly interested in
“fucking” as opposed to “making love.” Their sexual fantasy lives were
increasingly dominated by the scenarios that they had, so to speak, downloaded
into their brains, and these new scripts were often more primitive and more
violent than their previous sexual fantasies. I got the impression that any
sexual creativity these men had was dying and that they were becoming addicted
to Internet porn.</span></span></i><i><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">The changes I observed are not confined to a
few people in therapy. A social shift is occurring. While it is usually
difficult to get information about private sexual mores, this is not the case
with pornography today, because its use is increasingly public. This shift
coincides with the change from calling it “pornography” to the more casual term
“porn.” For his book on American campus life, I Am Charlotte Simmons, Tom Wolfe
spent a number of years observing students on university campuses. In the book
one boy, Ivy Peters, comes into the male residence and says, “Anybody got porn?”</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">I hope I am able to
convince my readers about the shift in socio-economic phenomenon that is
taking place right now and destroying millions of lives. Also pornography,
prostitution and homosexuality more than being fight for individuality is an
underlying fight to exploit human weaknesses to make profit. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Man has always striven for freedom, but it has received shackles in the form of illusory freedom. He has continuously been deceived and tamed by the resourceful. As a man who yearns true freedom and not its multifarious mirages, i feel suffocated breathing in the heavy air of false idols, my heart weeps watching blood on the hands of philanthropic saints, my consciousness craves to somehow become unconscious of the cruel reality. I demand to see justice or be completely absorbed by the oblivion. A state where i be in peace with nothingness. At Least then there would be nothing to be aware of. Man is a witness of his time. But he is no passive observer. He exists to observe the world unfold from various quantum possibilities and actively makes efforts to chose among those possibilities, ceasing to exist while doing the same. The process keeps on repeating itself without fail through future generations. In all his efforts throughout ages, with great grief, the freedom remains still to be found.</div>
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Unfortunately the real freedom has been monopolized by a few to force their worldview over the masses. They have become the uncanny masters of the human psycho-slaves for those who do not understand them completely; but to others who managed to retain command of their freedom of thought, are cognizant of their tyranny and much more terrorism. Man is continuously fed false ethics through their false Messiahs. The False Messiahs of Human Rights; Liberty, Individuality, liberalism, utilitarianism, ethical code of conduct, law and jurisprudence and every other domain of human life they can affect. The negative role of negative part of the Media which this writer merely thinks as submissive Mistress to the resourceful has exponentially aggravated these problems. The globalized world has globalized evil very cunningly by keeping it behind the veil of the New World Ethics. But this writer does not find any rational grounds for most of this ethical framework. It has failed its own harbinger which was used to justify its emergence, the scientific method of thought. The method that believes only in empirical relevance of a hypothesis. If theory can be aided by facts, then it has the right of Supremacy over all other theories. This writer believes in the validly of this method as any sane man would. But the disappointment surfaces when one finds the misuse of this method through tampered and partially revealed, partially concealed facts.</div>
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Homosexuality’s justification employing this method is the most absurd attempt to reconcile theory with facts. That reconciliation never existed and would never exist. America that boasts its advanced civilization and technical advancement has yet again demonstrated the lack of any concrete ground for their claim. On the contrary they have openly admired their barbaric intellectual and social capacities. They are now in peace with their concomitant demise. They just fail to perceive it due to the development of thick layers of rationality repellents in their mind. But this writer feels more grief in seeing the men of his culture being engulfed in this barbaric and stone age intellectualism. It appears that the same disease has taken root in the nation of proud people of the Vedas, the Qur’an, the Budhdha, The Mahavira, Guru Nanak. It makes this writer deeply sad that the nation that is often considered to be the cradle of civilizations has fallen prey to such thinking. This is a reminder of your great origins. Wake up from your deep slumber and become conscious of the dangers that even the existence of such thoughts possess, no less the laws that support them.</div>
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The proponents of homosexuality defend it on the grounds of individualism, freedom of thought and choice, its existence from time immemorial, existence of promiscuity, Human Rights, Liberty, etc. None of these reasons justifies its acceptance no less legality. Time and again throughout history it has been abundantly evident that human freedom of choice has not particularly reaped good fruits. It has been most often that the fruits so grown have been sour and poisonous. Wrong choices have entailed otherwise unnecessary wars, crimes, genocides, tyranny and terrorism. And the heart’s discontent most choices that men have are between the bad and the more bad. The good is almost always missing. What surety or rationality does thus the freedom of choice promise. Choice if given should only be between good and good, and neither between good and bad and bad and bad. But in the face of bad choices the only option that should be taken is not to make a choice at all. Then only can this chain of wrong choices can end. But to the advantage of the resourceful, it is easier to exploit human weaknesses. Easy money involves the introduction of wrong choices. Hence the support of the Media, Corporate Houses, Politicians, Celebrities to them.</div>
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The present day order fulfills its agenda in the name of human rights and the freedom of choice. But at the same time they fail to define that good and between them. Actually it would be wrong on my part to say that they fail to define. But it is more appropriate to say that they do not want to define the good and the bad. They say that man is rational by nature and he will choose what is best suited for his needs. Dr Javed Jamil shows the role of media in helping these forces in his book “The Devil of Economic Fundamentalism” as follows;</div>
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<em class="markup--em markup--blockquote-em">“To justify and perpetuate its style of functioning, the media has discovered the “freedom of expression” that has lately assumed notorious proportions. To traduce anybody, to malign religions and religious figures, to describe and exaggerate the most private areas of the life of any celebrity, to portray or publish anyone in the nude, to film the lewdest forms of sexual relations and to engage in disinformation for the furtherance of the desired objectives — all these have become great symbols of freedom of expression for them. Liberty has turned into liberating and license to express has resulted in licentiousness. Any attempt to censor or curb such vagrancy attracts virulent condemnation by the media all over the world. Those who advocate some control on expression are booed down as the enemies of freedom, civilization and development. To give further credence to its licentiousness, the media has used the “right to know” as an instrument to defend itself.”</em></blockquote>
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The above excerpt shows that what the forces that control the present order say is the freedom of choice is actually the choice imparted by the media. Man has been so much captivated by its glamour that he stops caring whether the choice is good for him or not. He sees his favorite celebrity taking drugs in a movie and greatly influenced by him, he makes his choice of trying the drug. He then tries to enjoy it as his favorite celebrity in the movie did and in no time without even realizing it, he becomes addicted to it. Similarly homosexuality has been given the rights in the constitution of various countries. Dr. Jamil in his book “Muslims Most Civilized and Yet Not Enough” on homosexuality says;</div>
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<em class="markup--em markup--blockquote-em">“The attempt to legalize Homosexuality is nothing but the continuation of the same series of worldwide strategies of “development” in which every human susceptibility is first given a legal and social sanction, then it is glorified in the media as a victory of “Freedom of Choice” and “Human Rights” and then with all the obstacles removed it is commercialized at huge level.It is needless to say that the rise in the demand of legalizing homosexuality in the world has intensified with the rising fortunes of gay market. It is already a big market in western countries. The truth is that Sex market as a whole is the largest growing market, and gay market is the largest growing sex market.”</em></blockquote>
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A report entitled, “Gay-Friendly Vancouver as a Billion Dollar Industry”, which appeared before 2010 Olympics, says:</div>
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<em class="markup--em markup--blockquote-em">“At present, Vancouver is hyping the 2010 Olympics above all. The pride of a city has turned into its most lucrative business. Now the tourism industry has found a new market, which has always existed but its potential as a distinct market was not realized: the “gay market,” According to </em><a class="markup--anchor markup--blockquote-anchor" data-href="http://canada.com/" href="http://canada.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><em class="markup--em markup--blockquote-em">Canada.com</em></a><em class="markup--em markup--blockquote-em">, gay tourism in Vancouver has been a lucrative and loyal sector within recent years. Gay tourism in the U.S. alone is estimated to be $55 billion annually (Constanineau, 2007). A survey conducted by San Francisco-based Community Marketing Inc, ranked Vancouver as the fourth most popular gay destination outside of the U.S., ranking Montreal and Toronto fifth and sixth respectively, which shows how well Canada’s gay tourism industry is doing overall (Constanineau, 2007). Constanineau also says that tourism Vancouver uses media to draw in a lot of its gay market from U.S. locations such as New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. One of the possible reasons suggested for Vancouver’s gay tourism industry is due to the fact that BC legalized same-sex marriage in July of 2003.”</em></blockquote>
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It is clear that the human rights that are being given to the homosexuals is part of the bigger plan of the economic forces to earn profits from human weaknesses. This institutionalization and commercialization of homosexuality has resulted in the increase in the trend of straight men trying homosexuality. This has resulted in the increase in the percentage of homosexuals which is only going to increase further in future. But these economic forces and the media at the same time do not expose man to the side effects of homosexuality, how it is the biggest source of aids and how it is ruining millions of life throughout the globe. Same is the case with the problem of smoking, alcohol, drugs, pornography, prostitution. A woman who sits back home and takes care of her children is today tagged as unemployed and unproductive and at the same time the prostitutes are being labeled as sex workers. All being the part of the greater plan of exploiting the human weaknesses to their benefits in the name of an egalitarian society.</div>
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Although the freedom of choice and human rights have helped the society in numerous ways but at the same time due to the lack of fundamental prohibitions in the working of the state there has been even greater misuse of these powerful tools.</div>
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Prohibitions in stark contrast with the Rights is a more fundamental phenomenon. One should only enjoy Rights when he has understood the importance of Prohibitions. A man is prohibited to kill other persons, keeping the fact in mind, that only then can he himself enjoy the freedom to live. But more than freedom to live, I believe freedom to life is a more important phenomenon. Only that has life, lives. Homosexuality is clearly devoid of that most fundamental right. All other rights come forth from the right of life. To strive to create progeny is the most essential principle of the existence of the living. If the living lose the purpose of creating life, civilization itself faces potential extinction. Some people may receive this point to be extreme, but a logical mind can only perceive similar ends.</div>
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It has become a common practice to view people with contempt if they speak for their community, even if what is said is true. This is specifically true of the people belonging to minority. It is sad to know that individuals derive their conclusions from incomplete facts and information that is being fed to them in the mainstream media. We talk about democracy and freedom of thought and yet it is them that we have sacrificed in the process of creating the mirage of a secular nation. Secularism which was originally devised as a tool to combat religious intolerance has become a tool for greater biasness against religions. An atheist can today easily speak against religion but a religious person has no right to speak publicly against atheism. A feminist is glorified for fighting against the oppressions by men, but, a man cannot stand with confidence against a woman if she is wrong, he is then branded as a male chauvinist. There have been laws created in the country against early marriage but sex and live-in relationships before the legal age have been decreed legal. I do not understand any sane logic behind the law which is meant to protect young people but unfortunately makes the same young people vulnerable to unwarranted problems. How are we supposed to believe in such a crippled system of justice where pressure from western culture and countries has made them to create laws that are fundamentally against the culture of this country.</div>
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The problem is now fundamentally deep rooted within the minds of the common people, it has infiltrated and hacked their sense of wisdom and has become a disease that needs immediate attention.</div>
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The process of this diabolical change started as a fight against the priestly system that had established under the umbrella of religions and had against the principles of its proprietor oppressed the people it governed. To fight a system that was believed to be backed by religion had to be a difficult task, hence it was thought that the easiest way to fight this system was by propagating contempt against the religion itself. A standard strategy used very often; if a building is to be completely destroyed then destroy the pillars it stands on, religion was that pillar. But the common people that were brainwashed to become the part of this propaganda failed to realize that destroying the pillar itself will also destroy the sense of all their morality; since their morality was derived from the ethical code of the religious scriptures. Hence to change the system the whole humanity was drowned into anarchy and were promised a new Utopia of liberal ideals. But what was disguised was that liberalism could never survive without the support from socialist ideals. For more than three centuries now man is being slowly and steadily consumed by these liberal ideals, meanwhile, growing distant from religious and spiritual values. To people who do not take events as it is but analyses the background of its occurrence, have lucid understanding of the vicious and elaborate scheme that has been in work constantly in order to create a world exactly like the world we presently live in, the world lacking Humanism and Justice. Ironically Justice was what this world was created for, or at least that was what the common people were informed. It is now a common knowledge that the world is now more unequal and unjust than it ever was any time in the past.</div>
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What worries me the most is the realization of the ideological enslavement of most individuals in accepting the worldview propagated by the select few that profit from it. To kill an evil that was not religious, but exploited religion for its purpose, another evil was created that was far more destructive than its predecessor. What we failed to realize is that it was not the religion which was at fault but the people who exploited the religion for their benefit. These same people became the leading proponents of this new evil because only they were the ones who were resourceful enough to benefit from it. Man was put into new chains and these chains were created by his own willing support. This New World Order reminds me of the quote by Rousseau,</div>
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Homo sapiens are the species of animals that happen to possess freewill. This means that man is free to take his own decisions conscious of its effects. This part of humanity is what was twisted and presented in a way that seemed to philosophically synchronize with the liberal doctrine. Although man is free by will but that freedom has ways to be unconsciously imprisoned. Man has the freedom to choose between various choices, but what if those choices have been devised to deceive him. This is exactly what happened to him. He was given the choices that were beneficial to the designers of the liberal doctrine. Media played the role of creating the consent among the people that the choices provided to them were the best possible. Noam Chomsky has vividly described the process of ‘Manufacturing Consent’ by the media in his book by the same name. He has shown that the mainstream media that is controlled by the people who control the present world order only shows those views regarding events that are beneficial to the propagation of this world order. This displays the elaborate plot that has been laid and employed to control the minds of the common people by rewiring their tastes according to their doctrine, where the value of an action is determined economically and not morally.</div>
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This doctrine became so successful because the biggest threat to its existence was dealt with from the very moment of its conception; the threat was religion. Homosexuality, live-in relationships, alcohol, drugs, gambling, prostitution and other vices could never have been institutionalized to the scale they have been now. Anyone who would now speak for the religion would be branded communal and anybody who would fight against the liberal values would be declared obsolete in his thinking. The intellectualism would be dominated by the propagated doctrine in any field be it science, literature, politics philosophy, economics et cetera. This is what Thomas Kuhn calls irrationality in science where the solutions to the problems are not derived objectively as science proposes, but within the paradigm that exists.</div>
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The reason I described the above historical analysis was because of my recent experience, the experience that left me deeply saddened. I was branded communal due to my voice for my community. I was asked to leave my country because I raised my voice for my community. I was questioned whether I had my allegiance to my country or my religion. The question itself is absurd because if people have their allegiance only to their country, religions would cease to exist and there would be wars and crimes without any responsibility towards any other country. I was asked whether I was first a human being or a Muslim. The question was again absurd because I am a Muslim that believes in one God who has created me and all the other human beings. So all humans are practically kin. But do kin not fight based on selfish interests. They do, and they do it often. I am then a human being who is an Indian Muslim who believes that he has the right to fight for himself and others who are being oppressed or not given proper justice because they belong to certain community. I am also human enough to fight against the Indian Muslims and Muslims from other countries who falsely employ Islamic Principles for the suppression of others. I am also equally vigorous to fight against the people from other religions who misuse their religious values in order to suppress others. My ultimate fight is against the oppression of minorities in all the countries of the world. In the sphere of violence my fight is for the punishment of same scales of violence with same scales of punishment be it from any religion, community, region, caste et cetera. My fight is for true egalitarian society where justice is itself free and not imprisoned.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">The definition of egalitarianism according to the oxford dictionaries is "Believing in or based on the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities." The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy defines egalitarianism as "a trend of thought in political philosophy. An egalitarian favors equality of some sort: People should get the same, or be treated the same, or be treated as equals, in some respect." Egalitarianism is then the doctrine of equality of all in different contexts under consideration. These context may be law, justice, opportunities, gender, morals etc. John Locke holds that everyone at all times and places has equal natural moral rights that all of us ought always to respect (Locke 1690). Also according to Walzer "Democratic egalitarianism becomes a requirement of justice in modern societies, because this egalitarianism is an underlying important element of people's shared values and cultural understandings (Walzer 1983)." This shows that during different times in the human history the egalitarian approach has been utilized to defend the equality of all in the contested fields. This in the course of time has helped the human civilization to grow from slavery to universal human suffrage. It has established equality of all before the law. Equal opportunities to all the section of the society weather high or low has been made more possible. Equality to life, one of the fundamental requirements of a developed society has been universally established. Even after considering all the benefits of this doctrine we have found that there has actually been a rise in economic disparity. More and more wealth has come under the control of lesser and lesser people. Few of the human rights that have been reserved for certain sections of the society are proving to have bad impact on the society. Problems regarding health have actually increased even when the standard of living of the people has risen. We will take in consideration various impacts of the egalitarian approach-good and bad over the society and will try to find out the reasons behind it. We will discuss the benefits and drawbacks of the approach of egalitarianism in the light of the new economic and political systems. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Both the capitalist as well as the marxist system of economy has failed to generate equality in the society and on the other hand have aggravated disparity among various classes of people. The founders of these systems Adam Smith and Karl Marx had deviced their philosophies solely for the purpose of eradicating these inequalities in the society. Smith advocated the principle free hand that results in the formation of free market economy. He argued that in this free nature of market there will be complete competition that will lead to the diffusion of economic power throughout the economy. Whereas Marx was a propounder of no private property. He believed that due to the existence of the private ownership of property, men act selfishly for their self advantage. He believed that if there will be no private property, there will be an egalitarian distribution of the resources within the economy which will lead to reduction and further complete eradication of disparity. Smith's magnum opus the Wealth of Nations was his fight against the then existing system of mercantilism. But without realizing he himself helped establishing it's substitute. The aftermath of his capitalist revolution helped establish a new class of economic exploiters called the capitalists and turned the forms of governments into corporatocracy. The byproducts of his revolution were the new aristocrats of the money market called the capitalists. It was only till the time of the great depression that the capitalist nations realized that the form of government and economy capitalism created was far from being perfect. Similarly Marx's whole revolution was against the Smith's capitalists. Marx once wrote of the Paris Commune (in The Civil War in France): “They have no ideals to realize, but to set free the elements of the new society with which old collapsing bourgeois society itself is pregnant. In full consciousness of their historic mission, and with the heroic resolve to act up to it, the working class can afford to smile at the coarse invective of the gentlemen’s gentlemen with the pen and inkhorn, and at the didactic patronage of well-wishing bourgeoisdoctrinaires, pouring forth their ignorant platitudes and sectarian crotchets in the oracular tone of scientific infallibility.” And yet his revolution helped to produce the likes of Hitler, Stalin and Lenin who established the absolute dictatorship. What was his communist movement turned out to be nationalistic movement for the above mentioned people. Both Smith and Marx established their doctrines with the sole purpose of establishing equality in the society. And yet these were the last things that were achieved.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">The above paragraph vividly depicts the idealist form of society and its features. Its most common criticism is that this kind of utopian world is impossible to form. But I believe that if the state tries to form a social and economical order on the utopian ideal it will yield results that will be far better then the ones existent now. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Idealism related to the supremacy of ideals in the face of comforts and entertainment. Idealism had several sources of inspiration including religion and other traditional philosophical ideals. Egalitarianism was primarily an answer by the newly emerging forces of economics against idealism. These forces which had big ideas of economic globalization felt that the real ideology is in the concept of social and economic equality. But in truth they had started feeling that the old concepts of morality will be a hurdle in their march towards economic glory. They tried to prove that idealism is utopianism which is impossible to achieve. It is therefore better to develop a practical concept of idealism where individuals had the right to chose what is right or wrong. The system will not bind anyone to any specific course of action but will allow them to chose their own destination. If they want to avoid certain practices it is their choice. If they chose the other way they alone will be responsible for whatever happens to them. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">The present day order fulfills its agenda in the name of human rights and the freedom of choice. But at the same time they fail to define that good and between them. Actually it would be wrong on my part to say that they fail to define. But it is more appropriate to say that they do not want to define the good and the bad. They say that man is rational by nature and he will choose what is best suited for his needs. Dr Javed Jamil shows the role of media in helping these forces in his book "The Devil of Economic Fundamentalism" as follows; </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">"To justify and perpetuate its style of functioning, the media has discovered the “freedom of expression” that has lately assumed notorious proportions. To traduce anybody, to malign religions and religious figures, to describe and exaggerate the most private areas of the life of any celebrity, to portray or publish anyone in the nude, to film the lewdest forms of sexual relations and to engage in disinformation for the furtherance of the desired objectives--all these have become great symbols of freedom of expression for them. Liberty has turned into liberating and license to express has resulted in licentiousness. Any attempt to censor or curb such vagrancy attracts virulent condemnation by the media all over the world. Those who advocate some control on expression are booed down as the enemies of freedom, civilization and development. To give further credence to its licentiousness, the media has used the “right to know” as an instrument to defend itself." </em></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">The above excerpt shows that what the forces that control the present order say is the freedom of choice is actually the choice imparted by the media. Man has been so much captivated by its glamour that he stops caring whether the choice is good for him or not. He sees his favorite celebrity taking drugs in a movie and greatly influenced by him, he makes his choice of trying the drug. He then tries to enjoy it as his favorite celebrity in the movie did and in no time without even realizing it, he becomes addicted to it. Similarly homosexuality has been given the rights in the constitution of various countries. Dr. Jamil in his book "Muslims Most Civilized and Yet Not Enough" on homosexuality says; </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">“At present, Vancouver is hyping the 2010 Olympics above all. The pride of a city has turned into its most lucrative business. Now the tourism industry has found a new market, which has always existed but its potential as a distinct market was not realized: the “gay market,” According to Canada.com, gay tourism in Vancouver has been a lucrative and loyal sector within recent years. Gay tourism in the U.S. alone is estimated to be $55 billion annually (Constanineau, 2007). A survey conducted by San Francisco-based Community Marketing Inc, ranked Vancouver as the fourth most popular gay destination outside of the U.S., ranking Montreal and Toronto fifth and sixth respectively, which shows how well Canada’s gay tourism industry is doing overall (Constanineau, 2007). Constanineau also says that tourism Vancouver uses media to draw in a lot of its gay market from U.S. locations such as New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. One of the possible reasons suggested for Vancouver’s gay tourism industry is due to the fact that BC legalized same-sex marriage in July of 2003.” </em></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">It is clear that the human rights that are being given to the homosexuals is part of the bigger plan of the economic forces to earn profits from human weaknesses. This institutionalization and commercialization of homosexuality has resulted in the increase in the trend of straight men trying homosexuality. This has resulted in the increase in the percentage of homosexuals which is only going to increase further in future. But these economic forces and the media at the same time do not expose man to the side effects of homosexuality, how it is the biggest source of aids and how it is ruining millions of life throughout the globe. Same is the case with the problem of smoking, alcohol, drugs, pornography, prostitution. A woman who sits back home and takes care of her children is today tagged as unemployed and unproductive and at the same time the prostitutes are being labeled as sex workers. All being the part of the greater plan of exploiting the human weaknesses to their benefits in the name of an egalitarian society. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">The seventeenth century saw an increase in individualistic role of man in the society. According to britannica individualism is " the political and social philosophy that emphasizes the moral worth of the individual." The doctrine emphasizes the importance of an individual in a society over the collective whole. This egalitarian approach which expressed equality of each individual was a product of the lassez faire philosophy where every individual was driven towards his best when pursuing his selfish desires. It advocates that the interests of an individual should come before that of the state or a group. The French aristocratic political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville (1805– 59) described individualism in terms of a kind of moderate selfishness that disposed humans to be concerned only with their own small circle of family and friends. Richard Koch in his article "Is Individualism Good or Bad" has written; </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Being self reliant and not to follow the herd to create your own path is good. But following the extremes of this is really harmful. The above description of individualism describes the positive sides of the doctrine. But as we have discussed earlier that what appears to be a good side also has greater bad side of the story. We will try to discuss the demerits of individualism over collectivism and the role of system in establishing collectivism. Dr. Javed Jamil in his book "Muslims Most Civilized and Yet Not Enough" describes the impact of individualism over health system; </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">"The above definitions clearly demonstrate the impact of the economic fundamentalism, which have been stressing the inclusion of "socially and economically productive life" without insisting the adoption of a health protective socio-economic system. Economic fundamentalism relies on the promotion of individualism and the negation of family and society. In their view it is individuals that form society rather than that society comprises individuals. Market forces advocate the importance of absolute individual freedom, and strongly resent any suggestion that the demands of society in general and the demands of family in particular must guide individual choices. It is therefore necessary to restrict the definition of health to an individualistic notion. If “social well being” is talked of, it means how an individual acts within society and not how society protects the individual. This definition is thus a passive proposition where the onus to maintain health falls on the shoulders of individuals themselves; family and society are not largely responsible to protect the health. If society comes into action, it is invariably when a particular program has the blessings of the market forces. If some hue and cry is raised by certain quarters to correct the ecology and environment, these are diplomatically tackled. Some of these demands have in fact the blessings of the big industries in order to fail the small-scale industries. And whatever the force behind these demands, environment to them just means air and water free of pollution; it has nothing to do with social practices and systems that are dangerous for health, unless they have a scope for commercial use at a larger level. We will discuss later how and why only secondary preventive measures are advocated and primary preventive measures ignored."</em></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">The new economic dispensation felt that the absolute rights of individuals will be in conformity with their concept of egalitarianism. They felt that this would help the business also in a big way. They felt that the system did not have any right to impose choice on individuals. The absoluteness of the rights of individuals made the system almost non existent. Individuals started dong what they liked. This helped their business and the variety of choices soon gave birth to variety of markets. With the passage of time the moral boundaries were demolished. Even dangerous choices were now welcomed. Alcohol, smoking, gambling and sex-all became big markets. This has continued to get worse every day. And now we are faced with a situation where individualism has led to disastrous consequences.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Individualism to a certain extent is productive. But at the same time extreme measures in it prove to be futile. The complete focus of man on individualism is the reason of most of his problems. As some of the proponents of collectivism put; “spontaneous collaboration of free men often creates things which are greater than their individual minds can ever fully comprehend." For the greater good of the society a protective system against human weaknesses needs to be established and the philosophy of individualism be constrained to private life.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511962640423666170noreply@blogger.com0New Delhi, Delhi, India28.6139391 77.20902120000005228.6139391 77.209021200000052 28.6139391 77.209021200000052tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7530745539918030746.post-25435741043258194502014-05-07T15:35:00.001-07:002014-05-07T15:35:39.188-07:00Einstein's Masterpiece: Relativity<div>It is my birthday today, and I am extremely happy. I am happy not because it's my birthday. Birthdays come and go each year. There is nothing new in them. My state of happiness is because of the insight I have acquired in Einstein's theory of relativity. Relativity introduces us to the relativistic nature of the realty we experience in our day to day experience. It provides us with the insight of relativistic nature of time itself. The one of the first and foremost nature of reality that relativity acquaints us with is that we all see past. We all see what has already happened. The observation of this past may be on the smallest of scales in our daily experience on earth. But this observation of experience of past increases greatly when we are concerned about greater distances. By greater distance I mean cosmic distances. Distance between sun and earth. Our solar system and all the other solar systems in the universe. Distance between galaxies and the like of it. At these huge scales we experience reality proportional to the distance under consideration. The more distant object in the cosmos we are observing, the deeper into past we are peeking. The past becomes directly proportional to the distance under consideration. Greater the cosmic distance, more distant past we observe. All this is because of our messenger particle of imagery information. That is to say the photon. Light is packets of photons travelling at a fixed velocity through spacetime. The speed we are all well aware of. The limit to speed of light is the very reason that creates the illusion of past. </div><div><br></div><div>When I have a discourse with my friend, no matter how close we are standing, we observe each other's past. Although we don't realise the difference because it is minuscule. But if my friend were on sun, somehow surviving the extreme heat produced by it in his super anti radiant space suit, I would see my friend wave me 8 minutes after he actually waved. This is because light takes 8 minutes to reach Earth from sun. It would take 8 minutes for me to realise that my friend waved me when I observe him through my powerful telescope. Similarly my friend who is observing me from sun through is highly advanced anti heat telescope, he would observe me after 8 minutes of waving him. So if somehow we had our clocks set to the same time, considering the effect of sun's high gravity to be negligible on his clock. We could both wave each other at the same time. This way when after 8 minutes we would observe each other through our telescopes, it would appear as if we are waving each other at the same time. After 8 minutes each of us would be able to see waving each other at the same time. Although both of us had done that 8 minutes ago. Similarly if my friend were to be in andromeda galaxy right now and clocks were to be synced. And we were to wave each other right now, then after three years if we were to observe each other through our super powerful galactic telescopes-we would still be able to see waving each other. Although the event for both of us had occurred three years ago. We will be able to greet each other at the same time. This way actions of the past could be synchronised with the actions of the future. How beautifully has Einstein's relativity explained the illusion of time . It was Einstein's genius that he could observe such a non-obvious reality at his time. But the relativity raise questions in a curious mind.</div><div><br></div><div>We perceive the moment in time when the light photons that have captured that moment strikes at the retina of our eyeball. But light itself is a slow wagon for the transportation of moments in space. All the relativity that we perceive in our lives is due to this shortcoming in the speed of light which is our fastest sensory way of acquiring moments of time. Hence our perception of reality is flawed by the very basics of our sense object contact. Einstein's relativity only enables us to view the universe and space time in context of this flaw, inherent in our sense. The perception exists only because we see universe through the lens of extremely slow photons. But what if there is a fast enough wagon that can introduce us to the existing reality. I would like to assert the existence of this wagon based on quantum mechanics analysis. Because the probability wave in quantum mechanics itself opens the doorway to this wagon. Would this wagon not enable us to see the world through the eyes of a saint that has attained enlightenment. Did Budhdha not see the universe as it is? Had he not realised the existence of such a wagon boarding which he attained Nirvana. Do we not read in The Holy Quran that prophet Muhammad(PBUH) travelled the whole universe in one night, what we all call the miraaj. These are questions of metaphysics and in no way should concern us while trying to unfold the transcendental reality of physics. But they at least develop a sense of curiosity in our minds, searching for the ultimate principle behind the working of the universe. What governs the objective reality?</div><div><br></div><div>We have not yet discussed the effect of Einstein's relativity over space. This is part of his more general form of the theory of relativity that envisions the effect of gravity also. In my present assessment I considered the effect of sun's gravity to be negligible, which in reality is not. This aspect of general theory of relativity may be discussed in the next article where gravity plays a leading role in the mechanism of the universe.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511962640423666170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7530745539918030746.post-28440967821294600422014-05-06T19:14:00.003-07:002014-05-06T19:14:36.205-07:00Concerning Human Knowledge Part 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I intend to be a writer, a writer of philosophy, and that of religion. But when i sit back in the corner of my room thinking hard of the topic on what i should write, i realise that whatever i may chose to be my topic that has complete dependence on what i know so far and not what i may truly know. All the great philosophers that i have read about and whose philosophies i have tried to understand take me to a common conclusion. That truth is something that can never be achieved. No matter how close one comes to the truth there develops even more possibilities to derive the truth that is different from the truth that man has conceived. But then the question that remains unanswered over centuries of trying to dig the truth is that will there ever be an end to the unending conquest for truth. Whatsoever be the end but it appears to be far from achieving. After the claims raised by Plato and his disciple Aristotle there is still same conquest for the same answers to the questions that they then answered. <br />
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What we derive from the long history of the conquest of the truth is that every great philosopher has had his idea of the truth which is followed by some and criticized by many. Every theory that a philosopher has theorized has been and in future events criticized by some other philosopher of equal intellect. In all this pool of confusion and discussion our conquest for the truth remains unachieved.<br />
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I am making the same mistake of trying to explain my perception of the universe and the truth behind its existence. But to me mistakes have to made for the establishment of the grounds for their correction. I think the world of man is like an ocean. Man here is like a stone which when thrown in the ocean will cause ripples to form. So all men living and who have ever lived on earth are like stones or for the ones who have seized to exist were at least like stones who like stones leave their influence in the world when they live in it. The world is the ground for the interaction of man like ocean is the ground for the interaction of the ripples formed by different stones. My point here is that the knowledge we have of the world today is the sequence of knowledge acquired by man throughout history.And this history has been formed by the effect of influence of men who have lived in it. A man's perception is based on what he knows from the past and what he can derive out of it in the future. Coming back to my ocean of ripples. I imagine when two stones are thrown inside the ocean or for instance inside a small water body for we are taking only two stones at this moment, this shall keep things simpler. Coming back to the stones thrown in the water body, both the stones will form different sets of ripples. At a point of time these different sets of ripples will interact with each other and will exchange their characteristics. If one set of ripples is quite stronger than the other set, it may absorb the other set of ripples and merge it into his own. This may refer to a person who has a strong ideology and the other person gets influenced by his ideology and starts to follow his steps. <br />
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But the situation may also be that both the sets are equally strong and they clash with each other causing competitive environment. This may refer to two persons who have different ideologies but they are equally strong. Their thoughts may clash with each other causing problems with them trusting each other. This may be compared to two high priests of different religions having conversation on religion itself. <br />
Now imagine billions of ripples being formed in a large ocean causing the interaction with each other. Now it may depend which ripples will interact more and cause the influence over each other thus causing groups of ripples having similar characteristics. This may be compared to a large society or a nation like india having different religions and how they interact with each other.<br />
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Through this example it becomes clear that a person's perception is just not his own but the different sets of perceptions he has adopted to shape his own and then accepting or rejecting these perception to establish an entirely new stream of thoughts which in turn are dependent on the older thoughts. <br />
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For example if we take a child and isolate him from the world and keep him in a jungle. He will grow up to become a man who does not know about mankind. This is because he has never been acquainted with the concept and hence he is no more a human as conceived by the present society. But the truth remains that he is as much a man as we are or the greatest thinkers produced by mankind are. He has just not been introduced to the sequence of knowledge that history has provided. He is at a point of knowledge where a man in stone age would have been. He had to start afresh. But instead if he were a part of ocean all the other men are then knowledge would have been induced in him by mere experience.<br />
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So the big question is, whether this sequential knowledge we have acquired throughout history is any closer to the truth itself or have we been misled from the very starting of the civilization. The question again establishes doubts that were thought to have been solved not completely but at least a little. Man thus is standing exactly where he was standing a thousand years ago or even at the very beginning of the mankind. This is the philosophical derivation of reality.<br />
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The length of a
man's life has been significantly decreasing throughout the human history.
According to the various religious scriptures man was once able to live well
over the age of a few hundred years. The most significant example being Prophet
Noah who was 948 when he died. Man is his own reason for such a decline in his
lifespan. We now expect a life of 60-70 years to be a normal life. The corrupt
nature of man has been the reason of such a huge downfall. But throughout this
time man has also grown in terms of his understanding of the things around him.
He has been able to reason with the very nature of his existence along with the
existence of the whole universe. He has advanced so much technologically that
he can now speak with another man a thousand miles from him<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by just a few clicks on the multitouch high
definition screen of his smartphone. He can travel great distances in one day
that would have taken months to travel otherwise. He has built the most high
skyscrapers for his living and created unlimited means for his amusement. Could
a single man have achieved all this in one life time, and that too a lifetime
that has been continuously growing to be shorter. Then what is man's means of
knowledge. What if the whole earth is somehow wiped out and the human
civilization is started anew. Will they be equally advanced like their
ancestors who have ceased to exist or will they turn back to being the men of
the stone age where they can barely provide for their survival. Man would
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Knowledge according
to me is the growth of humans as a civilization throughout their history.
Without knowing these achievements of the past man is just a caveman who knows
nothing more than an animal. What we know today is the grand summation of what
all the men that have lived have known. Among these men were few extraordinary
men who were able to use their faculty of critique and reason to negate what
was thought to be correct knowledge and establish the grounds for that was
acceptable to him by experience and reason. Six months back when I was
inefficient of writing even the most basic of text that I am writing now I used
to think to myself that what would it take for me to start thinking the way
these revolutionary thinkers thought. I am still far from being able to think
even vaguely similar to these great men but I have found myself a path that can
be followed in order to achieve the ability to critique and reason like these
men. All these great men had an obvious secret that we as normal people fail to
even perceive. They all knew what humans as a civilization had achieved so far.
And in the preceding line lies the answer to the most thought<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of question and sought after answer<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for a normal man. Only a person who has
devoted his time in knowing what has been achieved in past can spend his time
constructively to achieve something new in the future. Without knowing
everything in the field one is searching to discover something new, one cannot
find it. He may always strike at conclusions<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>that are already existent. He just did not know it because of the lack
of his knowledge of the past. Knowledge of the future completely relies in
knowledge of the past. A person who knows everything of the past will find out
something which had not yet been thought of. And this will add up to the
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All men are not able
to think alike because of their lack of kowledge of this simple and obvious
secret that it barely is. Apart from this there are also definite stages of
finding the right knowledge. Without knowing simple algebra a student of
mathematics cannot be expected to learn derivation and integration. There is a
definite road to higher knowledge. This is why sometimes in the past when there
was no globalization various thinkers who were most remotely associated were
able to find same solution to a problem. This was because that solution was the
stage to the right knowledge that was to follow. Any thinker who was thinking
in the right direction was to achieve the same solution no matter where he was.
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We often hear people
say that a young child learns the best or childhood is the best period of time
suited for learning. We all must have come across the preceding statement
dozens of time in our life. But have we ever payed attention<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to whether why is this said. Most of us take
the statement as it is without finding a reason in its authenticity. Let me
take<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a very simple example. When we buy
a computer it runs very fast. But as we keep on installing applications that
consume its random access memory the computer tends to become slower. This is
because of the excessive use of the available memory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Similarly when a child is young, his memory
is used to the minimum. And hence his brain accepts data easily and remembers
it for a long time. But as he grows older, he fills up his brain with various
information which languishes its capability to process that information. So
learning new things become difficult. A young child's brain can be curbed to
develop a certain ideology, acquire a certain set of skills and even be
directed to think in a certain way. So a child can be introduced only with the
right knowledge to lead a virtuous as well as an intellectual life. It is very
unfortunate to find that only the market capitalists have been able to
understand this part of the brain completely and are exploiting it to their
advantage. They have introduced to young men what they can cash in future, no
matter if it is completely wrong. For example the capitalists provide a choice
to men between good and bad and not between good and good at the sametime
declaring that a man is rational by nature and he has the capability to chose
what is right for him. They fail to determine that if they are providing nine bad
choices and a single good choice in a total of ten choices then it becomes nine
times probable for man to chose wrong over right. This is what is exploitation of
human weaknesses and they have been able to achieve this through the use of
various forms of marketing and taking the advantage of media. Now the biggest
problem with all this is that while a computer can be easily formatted and
started afresh, human perception of the world is extremely difficult to change
at later stages. It<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>takes a generation
or two to change the general perception of men. </div>
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So amidst all this I
find it most important for all to realize that this wrong input of information
and knowledge leads to a short term benefit but in the long run it is
formulating a definite path for the destruction of the civilization as a whole.
What awaits us in the technological future is the dark ages for virtues and
morality. In these dark ages there will surely be scientific and economic
growth but at the cost of a much greater loss. The loss of empathy and selfless
deeds. What will remain of men will only be materialism. And then again shall
come the age of renaissance and of enlightenment. But this time it will be in
favor of religion and not against it. Man will again realize the importance of
good over bad and there will flourish again what we termed in the times of
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