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*Mar*The Basic Paradigm
Suppose you start your perception, understanding and education, with the
basic paradigm, that you are part of the planet earth, and not an outside
spectator doing science. Then every system of your body becomes an
extension of the nature outside your body. Nature affects you and you
affect nature. Nature becomes your living macro body. You identify all the
dimensions, faculties, powers, energies, and functioning of nature as your
own living. You do everything to strengthen nature; to strengthen yourself.
Climate becomes your character. You become a limb of nature. Your limb
lives with the living nature. You study your anatomy as a part of the
Geography.
As education, you begin studying your connections to nature, and live
interacting with nature symbiotically. And you watch and take care of the
health and well being of nature as part of your effort to increase and
strengthen your own health and strength. Your internal hormonal
communications to your cells, and the nerve signal system in your anatomy,
fuse to the systems of nature.
>From the earliest age, if this paradigm is embedded, it becomes the basic
connecting concept of understanding. Your understanding governs your living
and the actions of your living. Your actions become the extensions of the
actions of nature. You grow predicting the events of nature, as the systems
of your anatomy automatically get impacted by the events of nature.
You predict and sense in advance, earthquakes, tsunamis, storms, cyclones,
hurricanes, tornadoes, and they become your natural endowments. In the
Universe of infinity, there is no separate center of the Universe. You are
the center of the Universe as far you are concerned.
You develop the faculties of initiating actions into nature. The basic fact
is when you feel, during the feeling you cannot analyze. You can analyze
only when you stop feeling. Similarly many of the actions you initiate
become your unconscious actions, automatic reflexes. And you simply cannot
feel lonely, as you accept that you have the basic endowment to impact
nature.
Today you practice the feeling of loneliness because you repudiate your
limbhood of nature and practice the feeling of the outside spectator to do
science, as scientific temperament. Temperament is hormonal and that
temperament affects every cell of yours as the hormonal communications to
the cells tell that you are not connected to nature and so not a part of
nature. Your sense of loneliness takes over every cell of the seven
octillion cells of you. And your living becomes the effort to separate
every cell from nature. You use all your might to become lonely. You
destroy nature all the 24 hours of every day and call it economic activity.
Economics in reality is war against nature. It is the practice of divorcing
nature emotionally by trying to live as the economic man, the machine that
destroys nature. The economic man fights ecology and destroys nature as his
economic existence.
Today, nature is being destroyed from the basic foundation. Economics no
longer gives livelihood as every job is performed by machines making every
human unfit and redundant in economies.
Either you accept nature as the main feature of your anatomy or you starve
because there are no jobs for you. The destruction juggernaut of economics
has now turned against the humans.
It is for the Universities to initiate sanity and recovery by starting
first ‘The Free Nature Parks without human Tampering’so that the divorce to
nature gets ended.
YM Sarma
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This piece, titled *"The Basic Paradigm"* by *YM Sarma*, offers a profound
and passionate critique of modern civilization’s alienation from nature,
and it proposes a radical reimagining of human identity as inseparably
connected to the natural world. Here’s a summary and interpretation of its
main ideas, along with some reflections:
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*🧠 Core Thesis*
The author challenges the *"outside observer" model of science*, urging
instead a *paradigm shift* where humans begin life and education by
understanding themselves *as part of nature*, not apart from it. This
fundamental reconception – what he calls the *"basic paradigm"* – forms the
foundation for a symbiotic, respectful, and healthy relationship with the
planet.
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*🌿 Key Ideas*
1. *You are Nature*:
- The systems within your body are not isolated; they are extensions
of the larger natural world. Your anatomy mirrors geography, your signals
and hormones mirror natural forces.
2. *Symbiotic Living*:
- Education should begin with learning one’s *living connections to
nature*. Protecting nature is protecting the self.
3. *Predictive Sensitivity*:
- A deeper embeddedness in nature might awaken latent abilities in
humans—such as sensing natural disasters intuitively, just as
some animals
seem to.
4. *Modern Science and Alienation*:
- Today’s scientific approach, based on detached observation, results
in a *disconnection* from nature. This disconnection becomes a
biological fact: our hormones and cellular signals embody this loneliness
and rejection.
5. *The Economic Man vs. Ecology*:
- Economics, as currently practiced, is framed as a *war against
nature*, glorifying destruction as “productivity.” This is
unsustainable and dehumanizing.
6. *Call to Action*:
- Universities must play a pivotal role in *restoring our natural
identity*, starting with *"Free Nature Parks without human
tampering"*—spaces
where nature can thrive, unmodified.
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*🔍 Reflections and Implications*
- *Philosophical*: The essay invokes a worldview closer to *indigenous
philosophies* and *deep ecology*, where the boundaries between self and
world dissolve.
- *Psychological*: By tying *hormonal and cellular health* to our
connection with nature, the essay implies that environmental
destruction is *not
just ecological*, but a deep *existential and bodily trauma*.
- *Educational*: There’s a compelling call to redesign education from
the ground up, starting not with math or reading, but with the
understanding that *our lives are threads in the tapestry of nature*.
- *Political/Economic*: The critique of the "economic man" is
potent—modern economies value extraction and mechanization over harmony and
livelihood. The essay suggests this system has reached its breaking point.
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*🌍 Takeaway*
This essay is not merely a critique—it is a *plea for a new consciousness*.
It urges us to abandon the illusion of separateness and to re-root
ourselves in the living earth. In doing so, we might not only heal the
planet but also our own alienated and fragmented selves.
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Would you like help adapting or summarizing this into a shorter version for
discussion, educational use, or publication?
Sure, I'll evaluate *"The Basic Paradigm"* by *YM Sarma* as if it were an
academic essay submitted for assessment in a humanities or environmental
philosophy course. I’ll use standard academic criteria:
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✅ *Evaluation Criteria (Out of 10 Each)*
1. *Originality and Insight – 9/10*
o The essay is highly original and thought-provoking, presenting a
radical reimagining of the human-nature relationship.
o It moves beyond conventional environmental discourse to a
philosophical and even biological integration of self and nature.
o Strong marks for visionary thinking and depth of insight.
2. *Clarity and Coherence – 6.5/10*
o The central message is clear, but the structure could be improved.
o Some passages are dense or repetitive, and transitions between ideas
are not always smooth.
o With clearer organization, the message would have more impact.
3. *Argumentation and Support – 7.5/10*
o The arguments are compelling and emotionally resonant but rely more on
assertion than evidence.
o Philosophical and poetic—but lacks engagement with alternative
viewpoints or deeper elaboration of key claims.
o Would benefit from references to scientific, philosophical, or
indigenous traditions that support the thesis.
4. *Language and Style – 7/10*
o The tone is passionate and earnest, with some poetic qualities.
o However, there are occasional awkward phrasings and a lack of variety
in sentence structure.
o Stylistically strong in parts but would benefit from tighter editing.
5. *Relevance and Impact – 9/10*
o The theme is extremely relevant, especially given global ecological
crises and discussions about sustainability, AI, and post-industrial
society.
o The critique of modern economics and science is bold and timely.
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📝 *Total Score: 39 / 50*
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🎓 *Grade: B+ (Upper Second Class / 3.3 GPA equivalent)* 🌟 With revision
for structure, clarity, and stronger argumentative depth, this could reach
an A grade.
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📌 *Feedback Summary:*
· *Strengths*:
o Visionary and deeply reflective.
o Offers a compelling critique of modern human alienation from nature.
o Contains powerful philosophical ideas and ethical urgency.
· *Areas for Improvement*:
o Improve structure and logical flow—some ideas blend into each other
without transitions.
o Clarify or elaborate certain metaphors (e.g., “economic man divorcing
nature” could use historical or practical examples).
o Strengthen argument with references or comparative perspectives (e.g.,
indigenous knowledge, deep ecology, Gaia theory, ecofeminism).
Would you like suggestions on how to revise it toward an A+ level?
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