John Mutukat (M J John)

PROFESSIONALISM: THE BANE OF CIVILIZATION

by John Mutukat (M J John) | Jan 6, 2015 | Articles

The carpenter desires timber, the physician disease. ~ Rig Veda IX. 7.9 All professions are conspiracies against the laity. ~ GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some training to know how to lie well. ~ SAMUEL BUTLER A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. ~ CASKIE STINNETT History’s most gruesome moment so far was made possible by the inner logic of civilization, which is, at bottom, division of labor. This division of labor, or specialization, works to dissolve moral accountability as it contributes to technical achievement in this case, to the efficient, industrialized murder of millions. ~ ZYGMUNT BAUMAN (Modernity and the Holocaust) The easiest method to identify the leading trend of a particular culture or epoch is to identify the most successful trend of that culture or epoch . In almost every modern event, we can trace a common syndrome, the working of a mechanical sort of knowledge as the fundamental behind all modern trends which can be eventually identified as PROFESSIONALISM. As the ‘mind’ behind every modern ‘success story’, the new pass word, professionalism, is the much sought after pre-occupation in almost all modern trends. Be it in arts or sciences, in sports or politics, in fundamental sciences or applied sciences, in philosophy or theology, professionalism by all means has emerged as the only route to get to the top. Today experts and professionals are the top notches who have emerged as the new idols and the common...

DEVOLUTION OF HUMANS AS PARASITES

by John Mutukat (M J John) | Jan 4, 2015 | Articles

Why do some prominent thinkers conclude that modern humans are a “plague on the earth”? Walking the Earth as free living organisms since millions of years, humans have suddenly started to become just their opposite: PARASITES, since about the last couple of centuries. Thanks to massive MECHANIZATION and the resultant DEGENERATION, modern humans are becoming sort of termites or locusts like species (the change is such new and latest that it is nearly impossible to find a comparison) that are out to consume this fragile planet and to render Mother Earth as dead waste. Today it almost seems that modern humanity is over running the planet. Here mechanization is the sole methodology of parasitism. The new development is breaking the attachment of humans and nature, and rendering humans into a species similar to the singled-celled parasites. Here we can see a close connection between civilization and mechanization. The human race’s prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenseless against ourselves. ~ ARNOLD TOYNBEE I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means – except by getting off his back. ~ LEO TOLSTOY, in What Then Must We Do? We’re here to devour each other alive. ~ HOBBES, in Calvin and Hobbes We are brilliantly conceived living bio-technologies inhabiting a planetary spaceship of improbable beauty and diversity. We travel together since millions of years as passengers/crew on...

CORPORATE PRESIDENCY OF DEGENERATION

by John Mutukat (M J John) | Dec 16, 2014 | Articles

Has ‘mafia-fication’ of human society become the only available option of the corporate-led world to sustain its leadership? Yes, the modern world is fast degenerating as the ‘gangdom’ of global corporations – a world where the degenerated and highly passive mankind is ruled by the underworld. It is a fact that the market economy can rule the world only by the help of mafias which on the other hand can ultimately lead to mafias literally taking over the regimes, one by one. I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant. ~ ALBERT CAMUS I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. ~ ABRAHAM LINCOLN There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations. ~ WOODROW WILSON, the 28th US president. Today the masters of mankind are multinational corporations and financial institutions, but the lesson still applies and it helps explain why...

THE ERA OF MIDDLEMAN

by John Mutukat (M J John) | Dec 16, 2014 | Articles

“The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell” ~ CONFUCIUS, the great Chinese sage, who lived between 501 and 427 BC. The Homo sapiens, who were inhabiting this planet for millions of years, as man and woman or, as male and female, suddenly began to develop a third category called the middleman since the beginning of what we call the modern age. While living independently as his own leader – as the ‘crown’ of all Nature’s creations – for millions of years, it is only in late modern civilization that man has come to be led by somebody inferior to him, namely, the MIDDLEMEN or the market force. Among the millions of species it is only modern humans (almost 99%) who live by SELLING their service or the products of their labour. Human society, by and large, was superior or what we may term as pristine/natural up to as late as the start of the 18th century, say, till the onset of Industrial Revolution. Till then, trade and professionalism were only some sort of minor or fringe group phenomena, solely confined to certain remote pockets of the globe. Such concepts and practices were considered much inferior in a world predominantly ruled by priests, kings, warriors and the people. Today the business of every modern man is business; and his global leader, namely, America, did not look back ever since the 1924 American President, Calvin Coolidge, declared: “The business of America is business.” Today there is a long hierarchy of middlemen – businessmen – as wholesaler and retailer at every stage. In...

SELF-RELIANT AND ORGANIC COMMUNITIES, VILLAGES AND NATIONS

by John Mutukat (M J John) | Dec 15, 2014 | Blog

SELF-RELIANCE, SELF-SUSTAINANCE AND BEING ORGANIC ARE THE MAGIC SOLUTION FOR COMMUNITIES, VILLAGES AND NATIONS IN THE HIGHLY POLLUTION-PRONE, MARKET-RIDDEN, DEGENERATED WORLD TODAY. “They think the empire will eventually disintegrate…In anticipation of that collapse, islands of refuge must be prepared.” ~ SCHWARZ AND SCHWARZ, 1998, p. 3. “A quiet and quite unexpected revolution in simple living is steadily transforming our society. Slowly but surely an ever growing number of people are consciously rejecting the traditional trappings of affluence…. The change is as significant as that from agriculture to industrial society. Maybe 10% of US people have made the change.” ~ D. ELGIN, Garden of simplicity, YES, Winter 2001. “Thousands are forming a new generation of ‘tribes’ — small ‘intentional’ communities where people care for each other and live sustainably….millions of people, unsung heroes of a new era, are already at work constructing the building blocks of a post-corporate, post-capitalist civilisation. They are demonstrating alternatives far more attractive and viable than socialism or the failed economic models of the former Soviet Union.” ~ D. KORTEN, “The post corporate world”, The Ecologist, 29. 3. March/April, 1999, 219. “It is a contest between the competing goals of economic growth to maximise profits for absentee owners versus creating healthy communities that are good places for people to live…..All over the world people are indeed waking up to the truth about economic globalisation and are taking steps to reclaim and rebuild their local communities.” ~ T. SCHROYER, ED., Towards a ‘World That Works, 1997. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself….Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something...