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The link between Mind and Social / Environmental-Issues.

The fast-paced, consumerist lifestyle of Industrial Society is causing
exponential rise in psychological problems besides destroying the
environment. All issues are interlinked. Our Minds cannot be peaceful
when attention-spans are down to nanoseconds, microseconds and
milliseconds. Our Minds cannot be peaceful if we destroy Nature.

Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment.

Subject : In a fast society slow emotions become extinct.
Subject : A thinking mind cannot feel.
Subject : Scientific/ Industrial/ Financial thinking destroys the planet.
Subject : Environment can never be saved as long as cities exist.


Emotion is what we experience during gaps in our thinking.

If there are no gaps there is no emotion.

Today people are thinking all the time and are mistaking thought (words/ language) for emotion.


When society switches-over from physical work (agriculture) to mental
work (scientific/ industrial/ financial/ fast visuals/ fast words ) the
speed of thinking keeps on accelerating and the gaps between thinking
go on decreasing.

There comes a time when there are almost no gaps.

People become incapable of experiencing/ tolerating gaps.

Emotion ends.

Man becomes machine.


A society that speeds up mentally experiences every mental slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.

A ( travelling )society that speeds up physically experiences every physical slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.

A society that entertains itself daily experiences every non-entertaining moment as Depression / Anxiety.


Fast visuals/ words make slow emotions extinct.

Scientific/ Industrial/ Financial thinking destroys emotional circuits.

A fast (large) society cannot feel pain / remorse / empathy.

A fast (large) society will always be cruel to Animals/ Trees/ Air/ Water/ Land and to Itself.



I am trying to get the following experiment conducted in a psychophysiology/ bio-chemistry laboratory.

There is a link between visual / verbal speed ( in perception, memory,
imagery ) and the bio-chemical state of the brain and the body.

Emotion can intensify / sustain only when visual and verbal processing
associated with the emotion slows down ( stops / freezes ).

The degree of difficulty of an emotion depends upon the degree of
freezing (of visuals and words ) required to intensify and sustain that
particular emotion.


Experiment:

Subjects (preferably actors specialising in tragedy / tragic roles )
will be asked to watch a silent video film showing any of the
following:-

(1) Human suffering.
(2) Animal suffering.
(3) Suffering ( Destruction ) of Air / Water / Land / Trees.

Subjects will be asked to intensify and sustain the subjective feeling of pain/ grief for the sufferer.

The chemical changes associated with the emotion in the body(blood) would be measured by appropriate methods.

The silent video film will be shown at different speeds :
(1) 125% of actual speed.
(2) Actual/real speed.
(3) 75% of actual speed.
(4) 50% of actual speed.
(5) 25% of actual speed.


Results :

(1) Intensity of emotion increases with the decrease in visual speed.
(2) Intensity of emotion is maximum when visual speed is minimum (25%
of actual speed)
(3) The amount of chemical change associated with the emotion in the
body(blood) will be found to increase with the decrease in visual speed.
(4) The chemical change is maximum when visual speed is minimum.
(5) The amount of chemical change will increase with the decrease in
breathing rate. Breathing becomes so slow and non-rhythmic that it stops
for some time at the inhalation/ exhalation stages.

The above co-relations will be valid for all subjects -even for those
who cannot feel pain/ grief. Such subjects will experience emotion
associated with boredom/ discomfort/ restlessness/ irritability/
uneasiness. The chemicals released will be different but the
co-relation between visual speed and amount of chemical will be same(
the breathing rates will be different/ fast). All subjects will
experience some kind of emotion.

[If scientists can discover 4000 different chemicals in cigarette-smoke
then they can certainly detect the few chemicals released in blood when
weexperience higher-level emotions like pain, empathy, compassion,
remorse etc… ]

In the 2nd stage of experiment we shall replace the silent video film
with a Narrator ( Audio only ) and repeat the procedure thereby
establishing the link between intensity of emotion and verbal speed.
The narrator will slow down verbal speed by-- speaking slowly,
stretching words, repetition of words/ sentences & making use of
pause/ silence between words.

Please note:
(1) A thinking mind cannot intensify / sustain any emotion.
While this statement is generally true for all emotions, it is particularly true for all painful emotions.

(2) Pain / remorse / empathy cannot be experienced in a society in
which visual (verbal) speed and breathing- rates are fast . It is
impossible.


Proof.
Proof of the link between pain and slow visuals / words :-

In the last century man has made thousands of movies / films on various
themes / subjects. Whenever pain / tragedy is shown in any film the
visuals ( scenes ) and words ( dialogues ) are always slowed down. In
many films tragedy is shown in slow motion. At the most intense moment
of pain the films almost become static / stationary.

Tragedy-films provide direct proof / evidence of the link between pain
and slowness.

Pain can intensify / sustain only when visual ( and verbal ) speed slows
down( stops/ freezes).


Change in visual speed over the years.

One thousand years ago visuals would change only when man physically
moved himself to a new place or when other people ( animals / birds )
and objects ( clouds / water ) physically moved themselves before him.

Today man sits in front of TV / Computer and watches the rapidly
changing visuals / audio.

He sits in a vehicle ( car / train / bus ) and as it moves he watches
the rapidly changing visuals.

He turns the pages of a book / newspaper / magazine and sees many
visuals / text in a short span.


Change in verbal speed over the years.

In ancient times verbal processing was “live” in nature—ie it happened when people actually spoke.
Today there is non-stop verbal processing inside the mind through print
and electronic media ( newspapers, books, magazines, radio, television,
computer etc…) as a result of which the verbal content & speed has
increased thousands of times.


The speed of visuals ( and words ) has increased so much during the last
one hundred years that today the human brain has become incapable of
focussing on slow visuals /words through perception, memory, imagery.

If we cannot focus on slow visuals / words we cannot experience emotions associated with slow visuals /words.



Before the advent of Industrial Revolution Man's thinking was primarily
limited to :

(a) visual processing ( slow visuals )
(b) verbal / language processing ( slow words )

Today there are many kinds of fast thinking :

(1) visual processing ( fast visuals )
(2) verbal / language processing ( fast words )
(3) Scientific / Technical thinking ( fast )
(4) Industrial thinking ( fast )
(5) Business thinking ( fast )

(3), (4) & (5) are associated with Numbers / Symbols / Equations /
Graphs /Circuits / Diagrams / Money / Accounting etc…

As long as the mind is doing this kind of thinking it cannot feel any
emotion - not an iota of emotion.

In a fast society slow emotions become extinct.
In a thinking ( scientific / industrial ) society emotion itself becomes extinct.

Emotion is what remains in the mind when visual/ verbal processing slows down (stops/ freezes)


There are certain categories of people who feel more emotion (subjective experience ) than others.

If we attempt to understand why (and how ) they feel more emotion we can learn a lot about emotion.

Writers, poets, actors, painters ( and other artists )

Writers
Writers do verbal ( and associated visual) processing whole day- every day.
They do slow verbal ( and associated visual) processing every day.
(A novel that we read in 2 hours might have taken 2 years to write.
This is also the reason why the reader can never feel the intensity
& duration of emotion experienced by the writer )

Poets
Poets do verbal ( and associated visual ) processing whole day- every
day. There is more emotion in poetry than in prose. This happens
because there are very few words ( and associated visuals ) in poetry
than in any other kind of writing. There is a very high degree of
freezing / slowing down of visuals & words in poetry.

Actors
Actors do verbal ( and associated visual ) processing whole day- every
day. During shooting / rehearsal they repeat the dialogues ( words )
again and again ( the associated visuals / scenes also get repeated
along with the dialogues )

Painters
Painters do visual ( and associated verbal ) processing whole day-
every day. They do extremely slow visual processing - The visual on the
canvas changes only when the painter adds to what already exists on the
canvas.


There are some important points to be noted :

All these people do visual & verbal processing - whole day - every day.
They do slow visual & verbal processing.
They do not do scientific / industrial / business processing whole day - every day.

Most of the city people doing mental work either do this kind of mental
processing which is associated with Numbers / Symbols/ Equations /
Graphs / Circuits / Diagrams / Money / Accounting etc… or they do fast
visual ( verbal ) processing whole day - every day.

This kind of thinking ( processing ) has come into existence only
during the last 200 years and has destroyed our emotional ability (
circuits ).


Once we speed up our minds we become incapable of slowing down [it
would take years of effort to slow down]. One can understand it this
way - A supercomputer cannot process at the rate of an ordinary
computer. Once we speed up [and we have been speeding up for several
generations now] we cannot slow down because the neural circuits get
altered - the bio-chemistry of the brain and its anatomy changes.



Self-Assessment of ( subjective ) intensity of emotion is almost always wrong.

Suppose the maximum intensity(and duration) of a particular emotion that
can be experienced by any human being is 100 units.

Let us suppose the maximum intensity(and duration) of that particular emotion ever
experienced by two people A & B in their entire life is :
A - 100units
B - 20 units

Now suppose A & B are made subjects on a particular day and are asked
to feel that particular emotion under experimental conditions ( or
outside the laboratory ) and the intensity &duration they actually experience is :

A - 90 units
B - 18 units

If A & B are then asked to indicate the intensity &duration of emotion on a scale
of 0 -10 their response is likely to be ;

A - 9
B - 9

Who is right and who is wrong ?
A is right.
B is wrong - B is wrong by a wide margin - B has experienced an
intensity(and duration) of 18 units out of a maximum of 100 units and his correct / actual score should be 1.8

Self- assessment ( self rating ) can be accurate only if people have
the capacity to experience the highest intensity &duration ( units ) of the
particular emotion under study.



In small(slow)agriculture-based societies the mind used to experience a
state of emotion all the time because of physical work and slow
visual/verbal processing . People who do physical work experience the
same good subjective-feeling which is experienced by people who do
physical excercise. [People who do physical work also sleep much better
than people who do mental work - the quality of sleep is much better].
If we read one thousand-year-old literature we will not come across the
term "boredom" - the concept of boredom did not exist in slow
societies. There were long gaps between different visuals and between
words/ sentences - and people had the ability to experience/ tolerate
the gaps - it was normal for them.

Emotion can intensify / sustain only when visual / verbal processing
slows down ( stops / freezes ). In an Industrial (thinking) society
people experience very little emotion because of fast ( visual / verbal
/ scientific / industrial / business ) thinking.

Suppose the maximum intensity and duration of a particular emotion (
for most people ) in a fast society has reduced to 5 units ( from 100
units that people used to experience in earlier /slower societies ).

If such people experience 4 units of emotion they will give themselves a
rating /score of 8 on a scale of 0-10 whereas their actual score should
be 0.4


[Please note :
Fast emotions =emotions associated with fast visuals/fast words/fast breathing/fast heart-rate.
Slow emotions=emotions associated with slow visuals/slow words/slow breathing/slow heart-rate.
Rate of thinking=number of visuals/words processed per minute.
Gaps between thinking =gaps between visuals/ words/ sentences.]


Thoughts and Emotions are interlinked - but different things - totally/ completly different.

Words can be spoken - words can be read - words can be heard.

Emotion is a subjective-experience. Other examples of subjective experience are taste, smell, touch, headache, stomach pain.

One can understand the difference this way :

When we eat an apple we can feel the taste of apple. Apple can give us the taste of apple - but apple is not taste.

If we pour apple juice into a glass - the glass will not feel the taste - it does not have the ability to feel taste.

If a person eats an apple he will feel the taste - because he has the ability to generate taste from apple.

Words/ Visuals can evoke, intensify and sustain emotions - but words/ visuals are not emotions.



In every field there is easy work/activity and difficult work/activity.

In mathematics there is easy mathematics and difficult mathematics.
Everyone can add 2+4 within microseconds. A PhD level problem of
mathematics would take hours [or more] to solve - and that too only by
someone who has spent 20 - 25 years learning mathematics upto PhD level.

Same way in the field of emotions there are easy emotions and difficult
emotions. Easy emotions are evoked within nanoseconds, microseconds and
milliseconds - anger, lust, fear, pleasure, entertainment and
excitement are some examples. These emotions are associated with fast
breathing and heart-rate. These emotions don"t require gaps between
thinking to evoke, intensify and sustain. These are the emotions that
can be found everywhere in today's fast society.

Then there are difficult emotions - which require ability and years of
effort to develop - emotions associated with pain, compassion and
peaceful states of mind are some examples. These emotions are
associated with slow breathing and heart-rate. These emotions require
freezing of thought - freezing of visuals and words - huge amounts of
gaps between thinking - to evoke, intensify and sustain.


The experiments I have proposed are primarily meant for those people
who understand only the language of science. We don't need experiments
to understand that our present lifestyle is destroying our Minds and
Environment - the evidence is everywhere - left, right and center. The
craze and fetish for science and scientific proof has mainly existed
for the last 50 - 100 years. People have lived on this planet for
thousands of years without needing scientific proof to understand
something. It is Science and Technology that created the consumerist
Industrial Society which has led to the destruction of Mind and Nature/
Environment. Who needs more science or more scientific proof. Science is not the solution - Science is the problem.

Some people demand proof of everything. They won't accept anything
without proof. How do people accept their father as their father? Where
is the proof?
Scientific proof comes from DNA testing. How many people have got the DNA test conducted?

Two things that have destroyed Environment are - Overpopulation and
Overconsumerism. Science and Technology is responsible for both these
problems. World population was less than 1 billion in the year 1800.
Nature had its way of controlling population through disease and death
caused by bacteria and virus. When man made medicines/ antibiotics he
created disaster - population increased very rapidly. In the absence of
"Industrial Agriculture" the feeding capacity of soil would have kept
population under control. If Industrial Revolution had not happened,
environmental destruction due to production of consumer goods would not
exist. In the absence of Science, Technology and "Industrial
Revolution" we would not be facing the two problems that have caused
destruction of ecosystems - overpopulation and overconsumerism.

Humans are incapable of making solutions. Humans have always created
problems. All solutions of Man have actually been problems in disguise
- they have led to bigger and greater problems. The quest for a
solution is the biggest problem in itself.



(1) A thinking species destroys the planet.
(2) Animals lived on earth for billions of years (in very large numbers)
without destroying nature.
(3) They did not destroy nature because their thinking / activity was
limited to searching for food for one time only.
(4) Man has existed on earth in large numbers for only a few thousand
years / a few hundred years.
(5) Within this short period Man has destroyed the environment.
(6) This destruction took place because of Man's thinking.
(7) When man thinks he makes things.
(8) When he makes things he kills animals / trees / air / water / land.
( Nothing can be made without killing these five elements of nature ).

(9) A thinking species destroys the planet.



Intelligence Is A Curse.

This planet is on the verge of total destruction.

The cause of destruction is – overactivity.
[Out of millions of species in this world the human-species is the only one that has indulged in overactivity]

The cause of overactivity is – Intelligence.
[The environment would never have got destroyed if Man had been only as intelligent as animals]

Intelligence is a curse - a disease - a disability - an abnormality.

Intelligence is the biggest cause/ source of destruction in this world.

[In fact Intelligence is the only cause of destruction in this world other than natural causes]



Mental work is injurious to the mind and planet.

Life was never good in the past.

Life will never be good in future.

Life can never be good.


Suffering is a part of life - an inherent feature of life. Suffering can never be eliminated.

There is Physical suffering - There is Mental suffering.

In pre-industrial society there were physical diseases caused by virus and bacteria.
In modern society there are hundreds of lifestyle related physical
diseases - Cancer, Stroke, Diabetes, Obesity, Multiple Organ Failures.


Mental suffering will always exist. It exists in agrarian society. It
exists in industrial society. As soon as we stop working we experience
mental suffering.

We avoid mental suffering by working ceaselessly.

There is no higher purpose behind work.

People do not work because they want to work.
People work because they cannot stop working.

The energy generated by the food we eat forces us to work ceaselessly.

Energy = Energy[Physical Work] + Energy[Mental Work] + Energy[Suffering/ Subjective Experience]

All three energies on the right side are inversely proportional to one another.

When we do hard physical work or hard mental work or a combination of
physical work and mental work almost all energy is used up in doing
work.

When we stop physical work and mental work the unused energy is
experienced as suffering/ anxiety/ restlessness/ discomfort. This
suffering is so intense - so unbearable - that most people cannot stop
physical activity and mental activity simultaneously for even 2 minutes
- they can stop work/activity only under the influence of drugs and
alcohol.

People do not work because they want to work.
People do not work for their family.
People do not work for their nation.
People do not work for any reason.

People work because they cannot stop working.

It does not matter what kind of work we do - whether it is physical
work or any kind of mental work. As soon as we stop working we suffer
from restlessness, anxiety, uneasiness and discomfort.

[ In Yoga and Meditation the goal is to stop Physical Activity and
Mental Activity simultaneously - and then transform the
subjective-experience of restlessness/ anxiety/ suffering into peace.
This requires ability and years of effort ]

For most people the choice is between physical and mental work.
The switch-over from physical work to mental work is disastrous for the planet.

Man can do the same physical work every day.
Man cannot do the same mental work every day.

When man used to do physical work ( farming and related activities ) he
could do the same repetitive work day after day- generation after
generation.

After the Industrial Revolution when man switched-over to mental work
he began a never ending process of making new machines / things /
products-- a process which can only end with the complete destruction
of environment ( planet ).

When we make consumer goods we kill Animals/ Trees, Air/ Water and Land - directly or indirectly.

Industrial Society destroys ecosystems - all Industrial Societies destroy ecosystems.

It hardly matters whether it is "Capitalist Industrial Society" - "Communist Industrial Society" - or "Socialist Industrial Society".

Industrial Society destroys ecosystems at every stage of its
functioning - when consumer goods are produced - when consumer goods
are used - when consumer goods are discarded/ recycled.


Raw material for industry is obtained by cutting up Forests. It is
extracted by mining/ digging up the earth. It comes by destroying/
killing Trees, Animals and Land.

Industries/ Factories use Water. The water that comes out of Factories
is contaminated with hundreds of toxic chemicals. Industry kills Water.
What to speak of Rivers - entire Oceans have been polluted.

Industry/ Factories burn millions of tonnes of fuel and when raw
material is melted/ heated up, hundreds of toxic chemicals are released
into the atmosphere. Industry kills Air.

Industrial Society has covered millions of square miles of land with cement and concrete. Industry kills Land.

When consumer goods are discarded/ thrown away in landfills it again leads to destruction of ecosystems.

When consumer goods are recycled, hundreds of toxic chemicals are released into air, water and land.

Consumer goods are sold/ marketed through a network of millions of
kilometers of rail / road network and shipping routes which causes
destruction of all ecosystems that come in the way.


Today 50% of world population - 3 bilion people are living in cities.
The necessary work of growing/producing Food is being done outside
cities - in villages and countryside. Most of the people living in
cities are engaged in unnecessary work - making things, buying things
and selling things. The switch-over from Physical work to Mental work/
Desk job has led to an endless cycle of unnecessary and destructive
work.

When society switches over from physical work to mental work it starts
making thousands of consumer goods. People start calling them
necessities. They are not necessities at all - 90% of consumer goods
that we see today did not exist 50 years ago.

Food, Water, Air, Little clothing, Little Shelter - these are necessities.

Close your nose and stop breathing for a few minutes - you will then know what necessity is.

Stop drinking water for a few days - you will then know what necessity is.

Stop eating food for a few days - you will then know what necessity is.

Today people are making thousands of consumer goods - not because they
are necessities - but because they cannot stop making them. People
cannot stop doing work - After switching over to mental work they will
keep on making thousands of unnecessary consumer goods. Industrial
Society is destroying necessary things [Animals,Trees,Air,Water and Land] for makng unnecessary things[Consumer Goods].
This is the reason why the switch-over from physical work to mental
work is so destructive. This is the point of no-return - once this is
crossed the destruction of Environment/ Nature is inevitable.

If we live a simple life there is individual suffering - but no largescale destruction of Environment.

If we live a consumerist life there is individual suffering - plus largescale destruction of Environment.


The nature of mental work is such that man has to do new mental work
every day- in fact he has to do new mental work every moment- Man
cannot repeat in the next moment the mental work that he has already
done in the previous moment.

A mathematician cannot solve the same problem of mathematics every day-
once he has solved it he will be forced to take up a new( unsolved)
problem. Even when he is solving one particular problem he has to move
from one step to another - there is a continuous change involved --
there is no constancy at any stage.

An engineer cannot design the same machine again and again –once he has
made a machine he will try to make changes/ design a new one.

A writer cannot write the same article every day- he will be forced to
write something new every day/ every moment (This is also the reason
behind endless discussions/ debates/ arguments).


Discussions, Debates and Arguments.

Let us examine how much discussion we are collectively having in Industrial Society every day.

Millions of pages in print – newspapers / books / magazines.
Millions of web-pages on internet every day.

Now add to this all the conversation (discussion) we are having through
radio / television / telephone and several other media every day.

And add to this all the discussion we are having through face-to-face interaction.

The volume of discussion per individual in one week is greater than the
total discussion someone living in pre-industrial society would have in
his entire life.

There is too much discussion in modern society.
Discussion is not solving our problems – discussion itself has become a problem – a gigantic problem.


A society that does mental work will discuss itself to destruction [extinction]

A society that does mental work will argue itself to destruction [extinction]

A society that does mental work will debate itself to destruction [extinction]


A society that does mental work can never stop discussions / debates /
arguments – it is impossible. It will discuss / debate / argue till the
last moment of it’s existence.

Discussions / Debates / Arguments – these are creations of a society that has switched-over from physical work to mental work.

Discussions / Debates / Arguments – these are diseases of a society that has switched-over from physical work to mental work.


Discussions / debates / arguments can end only in agriculture-based societies that do physical work.

We cannot do physical-work and mental-work simultaneously.

There is an inverse relationship between physical-work and mental-work.
If one is high [more] the other has got to be low [less]

If we want to do physical work we have to reduce mental activity by the same proportion.
If we want to do mental work we have to reduce physical activity by the same proportion.

There is very little discussion / debate / argument in societies that
do physical work - ie, agriculture-based societies - And this is the
reason why they are millions of times saner than industrial societies.




Change is an inherent feature of mental work.

Since change is an inherent feature of mental work - a society that
does mental work can never be at peace with itself – it is impossible.

A society that does mental work will always be restless.

Only those societies that do physical work [agriculture and related activities] can find contentment and peace.



As long as cities exist we can neither save the environment nor the mind.

To save the [ remaining ] environment from destruction man will have to
return back to physical work [ smaller communities ].

To save the mind from mental diseases man will have to return back to physical work [ smaller communities ].



Criminality and Abnormality.

Industrial Society has collectively killed billions of Animals and
Trees [ Remember - plant and animal species developed over a period of
millions ofyears]

It has also killed most of Water and Air [ Please note - polluting Water and Air is equivalent to killing Water and Air ]

The soil was not fertile when the earth was created. It became fertile
- very slowly - over a period of millions of years. And look what man
has done - He has covered millions and millions of hectares of land
with cement and concrete. All the land that has been covered with
cement and concrete has been killed.

Man has stockpiled thousands of tonnes of highly radioactive nuclear
material and nuclear waste which is going to remain highly radioactive
and carcinogenic for the next thousands of years - and which has
already leaked into the environment hundreds of times.

There is an arsenal of 50,000 nuclear missiles that can destroy the planet several times over.

What could be more criminal than this.
What could be more abnormal than this.

Lawyers and Judges are trying to catch a few criminals.
They don’t realize the entire Industrial Society is criminal.

Psychologists and Psychiatrists are trying to classify a few people as abnormal.
They don’t realize the entire Industrial Society is abnormal.


The claim of "science and technology" of curing cancer is a joke.
"Science and Technology" can never cure cancer - it is impossible.
"Science and Technology" is the cause of cancer. Most of cancer is
caused by toxic chemicals - carcinogens.
Industrial Society has flooded the ecosystems with toxic chemicals.
Most of the Farm Land has been poisoned with pesticides due to
Industrial Agriculture. The Land - The Air - The Water - the entire
food chain is contaminated with thousands of man-made toxic chemicals
which did not exist before industrialiation. There are hundreds of
man-made, toxic chemicals in the blood, bones and tissue of humans.
There are toxic, man-made chemicals in the placenta of new born babies.
Industrial Society is causing millions of cancer every year. Out of
these millions of cases, "science and technology" is able to treat a
small percentage - a few thousand cases - through surgery, radiation
and chemotherapy etc...And these treatments can hardly be called real
treatments because the toxic chemicals which are the root cause of
cancer still exist in the environment. This is also the reason why
there is a high rate of relapse/ recurrence after cancer treatment. An
Industrial Society can never prevent high incidence of cancer, because
it is flooding the environment with chemicals all the time.


Industrial Society is collectively making millions of tonnes of weapons
and explosives [of all kinds] every year – and then it wonders why
there is so much violence in this world.

Big Mystery.

If you make millions of tonnes of weapons and explosives on earth they
are going to be used on earth – they are not going to be used on Mars.


The entire Industrial Society is a terrorist.
The Military-Industrial-Complex is the real terrorist.
Science and Technology is the terrorist.



Make things
Buy things
Sell things

This is not the purpose of life.

Destroy Shopping Culture.

No one deserves more.
Everyone deserves less.
Life can sustain on earth only when everyone has less.




There was a time when Man knew nothing about the number of species and millions of species existed.
Today Man knows the names of millions of species and nothing is left of the species.



It took millions of years for millions of species to slowly come into
existence on earth - and man has decimated all other species.

After destroying millions of highly-developed species on earth Man is
today searching for a few molecules of life in outer-space.

If a few microbes, a few molecules of methane / water are found on Mars - it becomes the newspaper headline.

They call it progress.



The following is about to come true.

Nature can exist

(1) before man.
(2) after man.
(3) not with man.



Destruction of environment can be divided into two parts - destruction
of environment for producing food - and destruction of environment for
making thousands of consumer goods. In pre-Industrial Society people
destroyed environment primarily for food. In Industrial Society people are destroying environment for food and consumer goods.
If we want to save environment we will have to bring down the second to
the minimum level by not making all unnecessary consumer goods.

Environment can be saved only if we stop production of most [ more than 99% ] of the consumer goods we are making today.

Environment cannot be saved by recycling.

The attempt of an industrial society to save the environment by
recycling is like shooting someone 10,000 times and then trying to save
him by taking out one bullet.



Time is running out for this planet.



Regarding Industrialization there is an important point to be noted.
Modern Industrial Society has existed for 100 years - 200 years - 300
years. When we compare this period with the total duration for which
human society has existed on earth this period is so short - so small
that it almost does'nt exist. It is almost zero.

Humans have spent more than 99% of their time on earth in non-industrial societies.

Non-industrial societies have sustained on earth for thousands of years.
Industrial society has destroyed all ecosystems within 200 - 250 years.

Material things don't bring peace and happiness. Today billions of
people have got things which even Kings did not have in the past. Car,
computer, television, fridge, telephone - no King ever had these
things. But people are still restless and unhappy.

Industrial Society is consuming psychiatric drugs/ sleeping pills by tonnes and tonnes.

A very large percentage of the population is surviving on precription drugs, illegal drugs, alcohol and cigarettes.

One-third of the population has become fat like elephants.

People talk about increase in lifespan. What is the use of increased
lifespan if people have to resort to Drugs, Alcohol and Cigarettes to
pull through life. And just wait a few more years - the average
lifespan will soon become zero - human life will cease to exist on
earth.

Consumerist-Lifestyle is just not sustainable. If we do not immediately
return to living a very simple and frugal life then very soon there
will be no human life on earth. We would need several planets[earths]
to sustain the present lifestyle.


The Military-Industrial Complex is all set to destroy
whatever life and environment that remains on earth. There is a reason
why the two World Wars happened in the recent past and not 1000 years
ago.

It was not possible to have world wars 1000 years ago. World Wars
became possible only when Science and Technology developed aeroplanes,
ships and other carriers which could transport millions of troops and
millions of tonnes of weapons[once again a creation of science and
technology] from one corner of the globe to another.

And today one does'nt even need all these to fight a war. One just
needs to move finger-tips to launch missiles that can destroy the
planet several times over.

Right at this moment there are several countries fighting wars with one
another. There is internal war going on in almost half of the the
countries of the world. All these wars are being fuelled and sustained
by billions of tonnes of weapons produced by the Military-Industrial
Complex every year.

And it is going to get worse and worse every day.

If you kill one person they call it murder.
If you kill a few hundred they call it terrorism.
If you kill a few million they call it war.

Science and Technology has made this world [millions of times] more violent and unsafe than before.

Science and Technology has produced billions of tonnes of weapons and
explosives - chemical, biological and nuclear weapons - millions of
tonnes of Radioactive material [ which will soon be used to make dirty
radioactive bombs - which are going to contaminate the environment for
hundreds and thousands of years]. Science and Technology is the real terrorist.


Governments and Law Enforcement Agencies have labelled a few Environmentalists as EcoTerrorists.

What are the charges against Environmental Activists? - Destruction of property? - endangering human life?

The Military Industrial Complex is doing much more damage to property -
it is going around carpet bombing entire countries - flattening entire
countries. The Military Industrial Complex is endangering much more
human life - it is actually killing - killing millions in War/ Violence
- directly or indirectly.

Who is the real Terrorist? - Environmentalists or Industrial Society?

The human race has been destroying/ killing animals, trees, air, water,
land and people from the very beginning of civilization. Science and Technology has increased this destructive capacity millions of times

Every citizen of Industrial Societyis using hundreds/ thousands of consumer goods.

Every consumer good is made by killing animals, trees, air, water and land - directly or indirectly. [ more killing of nature takes place when consumer goods are used and discarded]

The per capita killing of animals, trees, air, water and land in
Industrial Society is hundreds of times/ thousands of times greater
than that of pre-industrial society.

Every citizen of Industrial Society is a serial killer - serial killer of animals, trees, air, water and land.

Those who produce consumer goods are killers.
Those who sell consumer goods are killers.
Those who buy consumer goods are killers.



Before Industrialization humans killed Environment primarily for Food, Clothing & Shelter. After industrialization humans are killing environment for Food, Clothing & Shelter plus [thousands of unnecessary]Consumer Goods.

Industrial Society is destroying necessary things[Animals, Trees, Air, Water and Land] for making unnecessary things[Consumer Goods].

The Military Industrial Complex has killed millions of
people in War/ Violence. It has decimated all plant and animal species.
It has destroyed all ecosystems. It has polluted and poisoned the Sky,
Land and Oceans. It has raped and plundered "Mother Earth" in the name
of Progress and Development.

The crimes of "Military Industrial Complex"are millions of times greater than the crimes of Environmentalists.

Comparing the crimes of Environmentalists with the crimes of "Military Industrial Complex" is like comparing the Lamp with the Sun.

The entire Industrial Society is a Terrorist.
Science and Technology is the Terrorist.
Military Industrial Complex is the Terrorist.
Culture of Consumerism - culture of making, buying and selling is the
Terrorist. Consumerism kills ecosystems - Consumerism is the biggest
act of violence against nature.




Think Positive.

Psychologists say -- Think Positive.
Politicians say – Think Positive.
Economists say – Think Positive.
Scientists say – Think Positive.
Everyone says – Think Positive.

Arctic ice is melting – Glaciers are melting – Rivers are drying up.
Think Positive.

Fish population in Oceans is down to 1/3 of what it was 100 years ago.
Think Positive.

Pollution levels are going sky-high and valley-deep.
Think Positive.

There used to be millions of members in most species of Animals and Birds. Now they are down to thousands and hundreds.
Think Positive.

Weather is getting more and more irregular and unpredictable.
Think Positive.

Metal everywhere - Concrete everywhere - Plastic everywhere.
Think Positive.

All local cultures have been destroyed in the name of consumerism and globalization.
Think Positive.

Thinking positive is the height of insanity.
Thinking positive is the height of abnormality.

This is a world that has become completely incapable of feeling Pain, Compassion, Remorse and Guilt.
The planet is getting destroyed moment by moment – and people are thinking positive.


Very soon there will be 1 Animal and 1 Tree left in this world – and people will still be thinking positive.

They will be holding Seminars, Conferences and Global-Summits to save the Environment.




There is an important point which the human-species needs to
understand. People think they can save the Environment by doing
something.

We can never save the environment by doing something.

It is overactivity that has destroyed environment in the first place.

Human-species is the only one out of millions of species that has
indulged in overactivity on this planet [ And for this very reason the
human speciesis going to exist on earth for the least amount of time]

And it is not Mild Overactivity – It is Excessive Overactivity – Exponential Overactivity.

We cannot save the environment by doing something.

We can only save it by doing less of what we have been doing - much less of what we have been doing.

If we want to save environment we will have to reduce human activity [overactivity] by 99%.



A person is being stabbed repeatedly at regular intervals - every hour.

Some people are trying to save the victim.

The sane way to save is - you first stop the attack – you prevent the attack.

What these insane people do - they allow the attack to be continued. They don’t stop it -- they don’t prevent it.

Instead, what they do - They say we are going to save the victim by
using technology - the best technology - the best medical care.

Bring this technology - Bring that technology.

Bring this technology - Bring that technology.


They give the victim the best technology - the best medical care.
In the meantime the stabbing continues – every hour – even while the best medical care is being given.

One can imagine the fate of the victim.


Ecosystems are getting destroyed due to production of consumer goods.

Every consumer good is made by killing animals, trees, air, water and land - directly or indirectly. [ more killing of nature takes place when consumer goods are used and discarded]

Industrial society is destroying necessary things - animals, trees, air, water and land for making unnecessary things - consumer goods.

The sane way of saving ecosystems is - you stop production of consumer
goods - you reduce production of consumer goods to the minimum level.

But the insane Industrial Society continues producing consumer goods [ in fact production is being increased every day]

The insane response of Industrial Society is - We will save the environment with technology - the best technology.

Bring this technology - Bring that technology.

Bring this technology - Bring that technology.


In the meantime production of consumer goods continues - 3 billion
people living in cities are continuously engaged in - making , buying
and selling of consumer goods - killing the ecosystems moment by moment.

One can imagine the fate of environment.

Height of Insanity.......Height of Abnormality.

Destroy consumerism..... before it is too late.
Destroy Industrial Society.....before it is too late.




The Illogical Logic of Man.

A few birds have got infected with bird-flu and Man has started killing millions of birds.
They say birds are a threat to humans.

Sometime ago there was Mad Cow disease and Man started killing hundreds of thousands of cows.
They said cows are a threat to humans.


Ever since Man came into existence - millions of humans with infectious
diseases have transferred such diseases to millions of other people -
and will continue to infect millions more in future.
Such people are a threat to rest of the people.
Man should follow the same logic here and kill all infected people.

It is Man who has killed millions of people in Wars and other forms of Violence – and can kill millions more any time in future.
Man should follow the same logic here and kill all people.


It is the human species which is the greatest threat to humans and all
other life on this planet - In fact the human species is the only
species which is a threat to all life on Earth.

Man has decimated all Animal and Plant species – polluted the Sky and Oceans - and poisioned every square inch of earth.

In a mere 200 - 300 years Industrial Society has destroyed all that
Nature laboriously created over a period of millions of years.


Humans pose the greatest threat to other humans.
Humans pose the greatest threat to all other life on earth.

The so-called Rational and Civilized Man should follow the same logic here - and destroy the entire human race.

Please note :

If you indulge in Factory Farming – If you torture the birds – confine
millions of them in prison like conditions – depriving them of Sunlight
and the freedom to walk and fly – you are creating an environment for
the spread of virus and disease.



Lifestyle of Mass Destruction.

Destruction is an inherent feature of Development.

Progress = Destruction of Nature.
Development = Destruction of Nature.

We can have Sustainable Lifestyle.
We cannot have Sustainable Development.

Development can never be sustainable.
Sustainability and Development cannot exist together.

Development and Sustainability are opposites.
Development and Sustainability are contradictory.

Sustainable Living is associated with consuming less – being satisfied with a simple and frugal life.
Development is associated with never ending desires – always wanting more.

Sustainable lifestyle requires Constancy.
Sustainable lifestyle requires Sameness.
Sustainable lifestyle requires Repetition.

Development is associated with Change.
Development is associated with New.
Development is associated with Transience.

Industrial Societies can never be sustainable – When you make thousands
of consumer goods you kill Nature - you kill Animals, Trees, Air, Water
and Land.

"Growth Rate" - "Economy Rate" - "GDP"
These are figures of "Ecocide".
These are figures of "crimes against Nature".
These are figures of "destruction of Ecosystems".
These are figures of "Insanity, Abnormality and Criminality".


A Society that does mental work [city based] can never be sustainable -
it will keep on making consumer goods - destroying the environment
moment by moment.

Only agriculture-based societies that do physical work can be sustainable.

The term Sustainable Development is like the terms

Stationary Walk.
Silent Talk.
Wakeful Sleep.
Dark Sun
Gentle Torture.
Dry Rain.
Peaceful War.

Infinite growth and development on a tiny planet that is just 40,000 km in circumference? - Industrial Society is insane.



Man can repair and restore things that have been made by man himself.
Car, Computer, Aeroplane, Rocket - if anything goes wrong with these
things man can repair and restore.

Man cannot repair and restore Nature/ Environment - because man did not
make Nature/ Environment. Once a Forest is destroyed - it is gone for
millions of years. One cannot create a Forest in 5 or 50 years - it
takes millions of years to make a forest - containing millions of
species of animals, insects, birds, plants and trees. Man can create a
plantation in 5 or 50 years - not a forest.

The only way to save Environment is by not destroying it - leave it
alone - leave it undisturbed. If you destroy Environment you cannot
repair and restore it.

No Multi National Company can manufacture the Amazon Rainforests.
No MNC can manufacture Rivers and Oceans.
No MNC can manufacture Mountains and Deserts.
No MNC can manufacture milions of species and fertile soil.
No MNC can manufacture the Sun.

The glaciers have melted. Arctic Ice has melted. Man can use all his
Technology - all the Refrigeration and AirConditioning Technology but
he will not be able to recreate the glaciers and Arctic Ice.

Many species of wild animals used to have hundreds of thousands/
millions of members. Now it is down to a few hundred/ a few thousand.
Which MNC is going to restore the animal population to its original
level?

The Oceans have almost been emptied of all large Fish. Which MNC is going to bring the Fish back in the Ocean?

Man has hunted down several species to extinction after Industrial Revolution. Which MNC is going to make them reappear?



There was a time when Man used to say –

I work in order to feed my family.
I work in order to put Food on the Table.

Today man is putting a lot more than Food on the Table.

Cars, Computers, ipods, Aeroplanes, 200 TV Channels, Luxury Yatchs,
Caribbean Vacations, Palatial Homes, Video Phones, Designer Clothes,
Designer Drugs, Cosmetic Surgery …………… The list is endless.


Man is putting thousands of consumer goods and services on the Table.
There is too much weight on the Table.
And the Table has begun to creak.


The more you put on your table the more you take out from the mouths of Animals and Birds.

The more you put on your table the more you kill Animals and Trees.

The more you put on your table the more you kill Water, Air and Land.

The more you put on your table the more you kill Mountains and Valleys.

The more you put on your table the more you kill the Sky and Oceans - the Rivers and Lakes.


There are so many things on the Table that one can barely see the Food.

We need just a few things to live.
And we are making thousands of things.

Billions of people are engaged in making, buying and selling of thousands of consumer goods.

Destroy Shopping Culture.

Go back to Simple Living.
Go back to putting just Food on the Table.



sushil_yadav
Delhi, India


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Comment by Genie on February 22, 2010 at 7:12am
I was watching the history channel today about the Oklahoma dust bowl. The story is so interesting but it just makes you sick about the European (my roots) settlers. You know, they were a hoard just like the Zionists in Palestine.
Comment by Genie on February 22, 2010 at 7:08am

When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted, when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money.

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