SELF-RELIANT AND ORGANIC COMMUNITIES, VILLAGES AND NATIONS
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...
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...Pope Francis: the Second Christ
Pope Francis is a force for positive change within the Roman Catholic Church. He represents a major change in direction for the church. By revitalizing and breathing new life into over 1.5 billion strong institution, like the Catholic Church, the new Pope is actually revitalizing and breathing new life into the whole mankind of the ‘global village’. This particular facet of his characteristics has been the focus of my study/Pope-Francis: the-Layman’s-Pope/ in page 342 to 347 in my book LIFE ON MELTDOWN published in Kerala–India in March 2014. As a first major step towards righting many wrongs in the Church, the pontiff has shown all the indication that celibacy of the clergy may be the foremost obstacle for bringing some inevitable positive changes in the Church, and therefore in the world. He may be certainly believing that married priesthood would right many wrongs. This aspect has already been extensively studied in chapter 13: rape-of-mind: role-of-organized-religions-in-the-degeneration-of-spiritual-faculties/ in my book LIFE ON MELTDOWN published in Kerala–India in March 2014. Recently when the Vatican’s Secretary of State has told a Venezuelan newspaper that the issue of mandatory priestly celibacy may be discussed, the news has not surprised...
NARENDRA MODI: THE GREAT REDEEMER AND PHILOSOPHER KING
A highly insecure, unstable and embattled world today is witnessing the emergence of a great leader in India promising stability, peace and progress for her 1.3 billion humans. Even though I hold no brief for Narendra Modi nor do I have had any opportunity to watch him in close quarters, as an author on humanities and ecology and watching the global social and political scenes from a little far, as if from another civilization/culture since the last few decades, Modi has emerged highly visible in my mental radar since about the last 10 years. Surprisingly, Modi has slowly started to be visible, on a widened reckoning in the present highly tormented national/global situation, as the rising of an inevitable PHILOSOPHER KING to not only rescue India but also the whole more anguished world at a very crucial and delicate juncture in human history. Here, the great leader Narendra Modi will surely have to widen his vision. In this highly mechanized Global Village with no border, no leader and no order, and where globalized currency, monopoly media and mechanical might run the show, and where even individual action has its immediate and visible global effects (we claim that the whole world is at our fingertips), it is indeed a crude joke to claim that there are over 203 independent, sovereign nations in the world today. Today we claim that the whole world is at our fingertips; that planet Earth has become a ‘global village’ or ‘wired planet’; that Earth is turning into a global city and that this post-modern society is all a giant machine. Earth is now in a post-evolutionary phase, and...
The Highly Diseased Post-Modern Society
In these days when society is fast losing its moral as well as physical roots, it is becoming ever so hard for the ‘tree’ of civilization to survive, let alone flourish. It is painful to admit that we modern people have ‘successfully’ built a highly diseased society. Man gets sick from this diseased society, and not usually the other way round. The basic problem is that today hardly any people think, feel or act like normal humans. Or rather, nobody has the freedom to feel, think and act like the real human species. By mechanically extending our bodies and functions, during these mechanical ages, and thus having mechanized and mentally degenerated to the core, modern humans, especially the ruling elites, think, feel and act like the mechanized life forms, a la the semi-broiler chickens. Here, how can we understand the problems of mankind, let alone solve its problem, when we cannot feel, think or act like the real, pristine or normal humans? How does the mind fall prey to these kinds of diseased state of thinking? It is because the development of modern scientific thinking is the beginning of sort of weird thinking. Development of modern scientific thinking itself may be attributed to a curious development in mental, spiritual sectors that have many things to do with the onset of degeneration in the mental, spiritual sectors “The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it”, wrote George Orwell. Today both the ruler and the ruled have developed a tendency to remain perpetually in the risk-free fantasy world—away from ground realities and truths. It is only when...Download Life On Meltdown eBook
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