"Our earth is
degenerate in these later days; bribery and corruption are common; children no
longer obey their parents; and the end of the world is evidently
approaching."
on a Sumerian Clay Tablet, 3000 B.C.
You know, the facts of
reality are just too intense.
Anyway, let's start our
talk with today's in thing - Women Empowerment.
This world has always
been a women's world and I believe we have polluted the mindset of our
generation with this notion that it's a men's world. There is no fight to be
fought, especially for women. What is necessary is to educate men that it has
always been, it is and it will remain women's world. And not in just homo sapiens
but it can be observed in the other species as well.
For me, a simple
bio-logical reason is convincing enough to accept this idea - the sex which
exhibits less parental investment (of course male in case of mankind) will have
to compete for mating opportunities with the sex that invests more.
However, today's
scenario is, instead of increasing the self-competence, males are opting for
other options which are psychologically convenient and satisfying. In the
coming time, there might be the case that mankind may perish because of absence
of competent males. Question is - what shall perish first - mankind or our
planet?
When I say "In the
coming time", let me set a context for you -
- 5/6th of the time
Earth has had life on it; that life has been only microbes.
- Dinosaurs lived 165
million years ago.
- Humans have been
sentient for only 0.12 million years and we're at the verge of blowing the
planet up.
I'd also like to mention
here that we might also get yet smaller in size before we obliviate this earth
up. This is because there is a strong record of skeletal changes that clearly
shows that people become physically smaller, and their brains and teeth are also
smaller. This is generally seen as a sign of relaxed selection - that size and
strength are no longer keys to survival. After all who fights on the streets
now-a-days like before? Information is the new weapon now.
Meanwhile we are busy in
destruction of our natural habitat, there are some "short term"
changes one might envision. For example - with the easy and ready access to
information, knowledge of an individual will grow but the level of commonsense will
deteriorate. There are growing cases already. Birmingham City Council has made
compensation of £4.9 million between 2006 to 2011 for only trips and falls.
There was a case where school worker was handed £100,000 after slipping on food
in dinner hall. I remember when I used to live in hostel, I discovered a broken
metal nail in my morsel which had reached my mouth already. I barely got saved
by puncturing my hard palate or I would have been dead. I wish I had sued those
caterers. I would have been rich enough to spend my time in more creative activities
and contribute to the society.
However, coming back to
the future, spirituality may go down eventually for the growth of technology
and luxury. People are not trained of sitting idle and spend some time on self-reflection.
Rather they turn the screen-light of their electronic gadgets on and off, if
nothing else, as if they are expecting a genie coming out of it any time now. Answer
yourself honestly - When was the last time you sat for 5 minutes in peace with
yourself? Yesterday, last week, last month, last year, ever?
As we all are busy in
the survival race and to earn power and money, there aren't much volunteers who
would protect and explore the depth of our ancient traditions and cultures. Every
tribe of the world has cultures and traditions and those come with the logics
and reasons. The solutions of our problems are in the past. What we need is an
eye with an interest. You will be amazed of your language if you notice how
beautifully the vowels and consonants are sequenced based on the origin of the
vibrations as we speak. But in future, I think our history will remain in cloud
and might become a history in itself. Only the path-finders like you and me may
look into it every now and then for some answers.
Artificial Intelligence
(AI) has already entered our world with outstanding products from Vinci, HY and
many other innovative ventures. The day is not far when the characters of
Terminator might materialize in real life. I so love Harold Finch (from Person of Interest) and his principles regarding AI but the reality of our world scares
me. Imagine the combination of Cloning with AI. I guess with that, even if we
bring the fourth dimension in routine use, it might become irrelevant.
Having said all this, if
we become aware and responsible of the ramifications of our actions, I think we
can have a small window of opportunity to make a conscious choice of selecting
our future instead of future choosing us, or maybe not choosing us! Will it
take something/ someone from another dimension to make us understand what the
reality is? I believe we have a chance to save this planet. Or in a larger
context, prolong the existence of mankind and other species. All human actions
have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit,
reason, passion and desire. It's up to us to decide which cause we want to
choose to start.
For instance, instead of
making currency out of trees, we should make trees as our currency. We can
categorize them, for example, based on the usage, availability, access, life
term, time taken to grow, medicinal qualities, etc. And then we can update our
formulae to calculate the GDP growth accordingly. Highest GDP growth means highest
variety and quality of species and tribes. I think this idea can bring the
whole world together and we can get social in true means. A little advice - Next
time you go to a party, gift 'em a plant. That's going to be the currency of
the future.
Let's create a better
future.
A small update:
Apart from reading a book and writing two blogs, I planted trees, donated
blood and spent quality time with family and friends in this month.
Look at the whole white
paper instead of a black dot in the center of the page.
Smile. :)
